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. ...read more

The Council itself, in the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, said this: While Christ, ‘holy, innocent and undefiled’ (Heb 7:26) knew nothing of sin (cf. 2 Cor 5:21), but came only to expiate the sins of the people (cf. Heb 2:17)…the Church…clasping sinners to its bosom, at once holy and always in need of purification, follows ...read more

Salt + Light is pleased to announce we will be hosting special screenings of our latest film, Across the Divide, in Toronto and Ottawa this September. The film depicts the plight of the students of Bethlehem University and the struggles faced by the De La Salle Brothers who administer the school. Bethlehem University is the ...read more

…it is the love of Christ that fills our hearts and impels us to evangelize. Today as in the past, he sends us through the highways of the world to proclaim his Gospel to all the peoples of the earth (cf Mt 28:19). Through his love, Jesus Christ attracts to himself the people of every ...read more

The primitive Church, then, certainly did not think of itself as the place of perfect people. Polemics arose over opinions within the community that truly risked schisms. Mutual hatreds surfaced, people proposed themselves as charismatics, thus disseminating confusion in the group. Pagan vices persisted and people drew away from the apostles’ message to follow their ...read more

Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore gave the following homily during the Memorial Mass at the Knights of Columbus Supreme Annual Convention. Each year during the convention a Mass is celebrated in memory of all the Knights who have passed away during the year.  Worthy Supreme Knight and Mrs. Anderson, Brother Bishops, priests, and deacons, Brother ...read more

Today on Perspectives, the Pope’s General Audience and more from the Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention in Anaheim including States Dinner, mass coverage with Cardinals Levada and Collins and an interview with Cardinal Mahony. ...read more

Supreme Knight and Mrs. Anderson; Past Supreme Knight and Mrs. Dechant; My brother knights and beloved wives; My brother cardinals; Bishop Brown, Archbishop Viganó, my brother bishops, priests, and deacons; Our consecrated women and men religious; Seminarians, guests, friends one and all . . . Que viva Cristo Rey! To anyone who claims the Church is ...read more

The civil war in Syria has raged for over 16 months. Rebels have clashed with the government forces of President Bashar al-Assad resulting in the displacement of much of the country’s population. One man who has been left homeless by the conflict is Fr. Paolo Dall’Oglio, an Italian Jesuit who spent the last three decades ...read more

Since his death on August 4th 1859, and especially following his canonization in 1925, St. John Vianney has been recognized as a person of outstanding virtue and priestly holiness. In recent years, however, the popularity of this saint has grown, thanks largely to the recent Year for Priests (June 2009 to June 2010). In his ...read more