A friend once mentioned how it’s great that there are courses to prepare you for marriage, and that, when you have serious marriage problems, you can go to Retrouvaille. But what about the in-between? Is the couple basically on their own once they’re married? I had a great conversation with Blake Sittler, director of the ...

This Sunday’s Super Bowl offers one of the biggest sporting events of the year, but before the big game, at 4:30pm ET, Salt + Light Television is inviting viewers to tune in for Faith Bowl III. Over the course of a 30 minute round-table discussion, pro-athletes Mike Piazza, Mike Sweeney and Bobby Keppel talk about ...

February 2nd is the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. Forty days after his birth the Law of Moses required Mary to go to the temple and take part in the ritual for purification. This was also the day Mary and Joseph formally introduced Jesus to the House of God. In 1997 Pope John ...

Change is coming to S+L! As you’ve been hearing from our daily Zoom updates, the final edition of Zoom aired on Friday, but we’re pleased to announce the new platform with which we will bring you our daily updates: Perspectives. Beginning today and continuing Monday through Thursday at 7pm ET, and available on demand at ...

[singlepic id=48 w=145 h=92 float=right] How does the Church use the internet? Should priests blog? Should they be on Facebook and YouTube? Today on S+L Radio we speak to WordonFire.org Fr. Robert Barron, wordonfire.org and our featured artist is host of the video webcast, Embracing Hope, Mark Mallett. ...

On January 21st, Pope Benedict appointed Flaminia Giovanelli as undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.  The 61-year laywoman becomes the first woman to hold that particular position, but not the first one to reach that level.  In this week’s Vatican Report from Catholic News Service, John Thavis and Carol Glatz discuss women ...

The Wednesday General Audience this week offered a beautiful discourse on the life of St. Francis of Assisi.  In comments after the General Audience, Pope Benedict also acknowledged the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.  He prayed: May the memory of such events, in particular the tragedy of the Shoah that ...

Being new to Salt + Light there are a lot of aspects in many different areas to learn about. There are of course the areas of production that an operating television channel deals with on a daily basis. But here in addition to that there are the many different issues and focuses surrounding the topic ...

Superman, Batman, Nightcrawler, Punisher, Jake Sully (Avatar) – believe it or not, these names come up in conversation on this Thursday’s Catholic Focus. Yes, that’s because this episode is titled, “It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane… Oh, it’s God: The Exploration of Humanity’s Search for a Saviour through the Superhero Mythology”. Just kidding, that’s not ...

Like many other Canadians, I spent my Friday night watching a star studded fundraising telethon for the people of Haiti. I found myself moved by the stories being sent back from correspondents on the ground and from aid workers who have been in the country since just after the quake hit. One thing struck me ...