This year’s Canadian Gospel Music Association’s Covenant Awards nominations include two Catholic singer/songwriters well-known to S+L audiences: Chris Bray and Janelle. Alberta-native Janelle is best known to us as the singer of the French version of the World Youth Day 2002 Theme Song, Lumière du monde. Since then, Janelle’s powerful voice and dynamic enthusiasm has ...read more

The news late last week that U.S. President Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize brought an onslaught of criticism upon this century-old prestigious award. We can debate endlessly whether or not Obama was worthy of this rare honour (it is interesting to note that Obama was nominated just 12 days into his ...read more

Psalm 100 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts ...read more

Obtenir le lecteur Flash pour voir cette vidéo. Back in September, Salt + Light was privileged to receive a visit by Laura Molla and Giuseppe Pannuti, daughter and son-in-law, respectively, of St. Gianna Beretta Molla. Catholic News Service also covered their brief stay in North America, which was capped off by an address to a ...read more

With a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica October 4th, Pope Benedict XVI opened the Synod of Bishops for Africa. Although the Mass was conducted mainly in Latin and Italian, a choir from Congo sang traditional African Hyms and the Mass booklets were illustrated with sacred art from Congo, Togo, Burundi and Ethiopia. The theme of ...read more

Several years ago I got in a friendly argument with an acquaintance about a very important topic. We were debating the acting skill of Al Pacino. Not much to debate, you might say? Well, I agree. However, my acquaintance insisted Pacino was overrated and had a tendency to “scream” throughout his films. Maybe it’s just ...read more

If you turned your Sirius radio dial to the Catholic Channel a week ago Saturday, you were privy to an exclusive preview of Joe Zambon’s new album “There and Here”. As S+L Radio’s featured artist, the Ottawa-based singer-songwriter shared three tracks from his third release, which officially dropped the following day. Host Pedro Guevara-Mann accurately ...read more

This past Sunday in parishes across Nova Scotia, a letter was read from Archbishop Anthony Mancini, the Archbishop of Halifax, Apostolic Administrator of Yarmouth and Apostolic Administrator of Antigonish. The letter offers his reaction to the arrest of Bishop Raymond Lahey on charges of possession and importation of child pornography. October 2nd 2009 To the ...read more

It was a joyous day for Salt + Light on Saturday as we celebrated the wedding of two of our own. Our viewers will certainly recognize the bride. Mary Rose Bacani has been with Salt + Light since it’s beginning some six years ago and has been involved in many of our viewer’s favourite productions: ...read more

Today we celebrate the memorial of St. Thérèse of Lisieux – one of the most beloved saints of our Church. Her popularity only grows year after year, as is evident with the current tour of her relics throughout England where nearly 70-thousand people turned out in the first 10 days for veneration. (on a side ...read more