Vatican Connections: The changing face of the curia

Alicia Ambrosio

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Its finally here! The Season 2 premiere of Vatican Connections. To get back into things we're taking a look at what's been happening over the summer at the Vatican. There were new commissions created, important appointments made, and some blockbuster announcements.

This week's Roman Profile is an introduction to the figure of Cardinal Celso Costantini - the fisrt papal delegate to China in the 1930s.

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Deacon-structing Christmas: Had Jesus Not Been Born | Part 3

Monday, January 9, 2023

Deacon Pedro

For the last two weeks (part 1 and part 2) I’ve been trying to imagine what our world would be like had Jesus never been born. It’s easy to say that The Church would not exist or that we would have no Pope. There would be no priests, deacons, religious sisters or brothers, nor there […]

Deacon-structing Christmas: Had Jesus Not Been Born | Part 2

Monday, January 2, 2023

Deacon Pedro

Last week I was imagining a world without Christmas. That would mean no Christmas music and no Christmas movies. But a world without Jesus would mean much more to our popular culture. One of my favourite Broadway musicals is Les Miz. I never read the novel, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and wasn’t crazy about […]

Deacon-structing Christmas: Had Jesus not been born | Part 1

Monday, December 26, 2022

Deacon Pedro

I remember once, a Cuban friend who grew up in Cuba with no Christmas, telling me that she had never seen or heard of a Christmas tree before she left Cuba. But had Christ never been born, the implications would be much worse than not having Christmas trees. Just think of the music we’d be […]

Deacon-structing: When is the End of the World?

Monday, November 14, 2022

Deacon Pedro

Earlier this week I found myself listening to R.E.M.’s It’s the End of the World (although I much prefer the cover by Great Big Sea). It’s a good song and, while I’m not exactly sure what it’s about, I always think about it around this time of the year when all the Mass readings have […]

Encore SLHour: Religious Persecution and other fabulous conversations!

Saturday, July 13, 2019

Salt + Light Media

This week's guests: Marie-Claude Lalonde of Aid to the Church in Need, author Eleanor Bourg Nicholson, musician Daniel Oberreuter, and composer Dan Schutte.