The Government of Canada is a step closer to making its Office of Religious Freedom a reality. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird held a roundtable discussion with religious leaders on Monday. The planned Office of Religious Freedom will be located in the Ottawa headquarters of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. There, Baird welcomed nearly 100 religious leaders, ...read more

After the WYD “high,” how do you continue to nourish the seeds of faith that were planted? That’s the question Pedro asks this week on Perspectives: The Weekly Edition. Joining him for the discussion is Neiman D’Souza, a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Toronto, and Jonathan Nix, coordinator of Youth Ministry at St. Bonaventure parish ...read more

On Thursday, the Vatican announced the theme of World Communications Day 2012: “Silence and Word: path of evangelization”. The Vatican has touched on a theme that holds enormous potential for us all. More than ever, silence plays an important role in communications and all of our inter-personal relationships. Noise and clutter has become so prevalent ...read more

Bishop Pierre Morissette, the President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, has released a pastoral letter on the Revised Roman Missal and its liturgical norms. The missal will be implemented across English-speaking Canada on the first Sunday of Advent. September 22, 2011 Dear Brothers and Sisters who assist in the liturgical and catechetical ministries ...read more

As many of you know, there is a new English translation of the Mass and the changes will be implemented beginning this coming Advent. Salt + Light is working with the National Liturgy Office of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops on a DVD that will be used for ongoing catechesis on the Mass. We ...read more

It’s lights, camera, action at Toronto’s St. Basil’s Church on September 28. Fr. Robert Barron, one of the Church’s best messengers, is rolling into town to give the John M. Kelly Lecture in Theology. Scheduled for 7:00pm, his talk will address the theme “To Evangelize the Culture.” Fr. Barron is widely known as an acclaimed ...read more

All of us at Salt + Light had a great start to our work week. An important sheep has returned to the family fold! Alicia Ambrosio has returned to S+L’s headquarters in Toronto. For the last year and a half, Ambrosio served as S+L’s first Vatican correspondent in Rome. In total, she spent seven months ...read more

Pope Benedict XVI’s farewell address given at Lahr Airport: Mr President of the Federal Republic, Distinguished Representatives of the Federal Government, of Baden Württemburg and its Communities, Dear Brother Bishops, Ladies and Gentlemen, Before leaving Germany, I would like very much to thank you for these days, so moving and eventful, spent in my native ...read more

The Holy Father reminds those Catholics working in the Church and society of the origins of the Church’s mission: the triune God, in the mystery of divine love. The Church finds her meaning solely in being a tool for salvation, in filling the world with God’s word, and in transforming the world by bringing it ...read more

Holy Father’s Angelus address at Freiburg Airport: Dear Brothers and Sisters! At the end of this solemn celebration of holy Mass we now pray the Angelus together.  This prayer constantly reminds us of the historical beginnings of our salvation.  The Archangel Gabriel presents God’s plan of salvation to the Virgin Mary, by which she was ...read more