Listed below is an official greeting from Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. In the Canadian Church, we celebrate the feast day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary today. As Christians around the world celebrate Assumption Day, I am delighted to extend my heartfelt greetings to all Canadians observing this blessed occasion. The feast day ...

Just as the faithful of Vancouver have a pilgrimage to celebrate the feast of Assumption, Catholics in Edmonton have their own shrine to visit on this feast. The Skaro shrine, located 80 km northeast of Edmonton, was built at the turn of the 20th century by residents of the Polish settlement there. In 1904 residents ...

In Edmonton Alberta the Catholic Women’s League is holding their 92nd annual national convention. Just over 900 women are taking part in the gathering. Here they were listening to Dr. Chantal Beauvais speaking about spiritual poverty. ...

In anticipation of our special screenings in Toronto on Sept. 5 and Ottawa on Sept. 19, here is the brand new second trailer for the S+L documentary Across the Divide. Check out the Across the Divide website to learn more about the tour, which is co-sponsored by CNEWA Canada and the Archdioceses of Toronto and ...

In less than a week we celebrate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In North America, because we tend to work straight through the summer, taking time off in bits and pieces, this feast can get lost. That doesn’t mean Canadian Catholics have forgotten about our Blessed Mother. Across our country dioceses and parishes ...

This week on a special edition of the SLHour we celebrate 75 years of service with Catholic Digest editor Danielle Bean and Tom Tomaszek tells us about what he calls “Sunday to Sunday living.” Ralph Martin of Renewal Ministries tells us about his book The Fulfillment of All Desire and our featured artist of the ...

Only through believing, then, does faith grow and become stronger; there is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one’s life apart from self-abandonment, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of a love that seems to grow constantly because it has its origin in God.” Pope Benedict XVI, Porta Fidei ...

This week on a special edition of the SLHour we celebrate 75 years of service with Catholic Digest editor Danielle Bean and Tom Tomaszek tells us about what he calls “Sunday to Sunday living.” Ralph Martin of Renewal Ministries tells us about his book The Fulfillment of All Desire and our featured artist of the ...

Host Kris Dmytrenko and our guests Fr. James Mallon, pastor of Saint Benedict Parish in Halifax and director of the John Paul II Media Institute, and Fr. Jim Roche, Episcopal Vicar for the Diocese of London, Ontario, talk about their experiences with the closure of parishes and explain why this can sometimes be a good solution for ...

As a media professional, there are some saints who become  part of your work. Working here at Salt and Light one those saints is Clare of Assisi, the patron saint of television whose feast the Catholic Church celebrates today. Clare was contemporary of St. Francis of Assisi. She was 18 she first heard Francis preaching. ...