The other day I decided to unearth the red and beige bag that lays at the bottom of my closet. The occasion was the fifth anniversary of Toronto’s World Youth Day. The bag: the official Toronto WYD backpack. The contents: worn pamphlets, tattered maps, and torn flyers I enthusiastically collected between July 23rd and July ...read more

This week, July 23rd to July 28th, marks the 5th anniversary of Toronto’s World Youth Day. Salt + Light Television is marking the occasion with a whole slate of special programming. Click HERE to see what we have scheduled. Throughout this week we’ll also be posting on the blog some of the staff’s experiences at ...read more

I signed up for WYD 02 rather late in the game. Wouldn’t it be equivalent watching the coverage from afar? And, frankly, due to some evangelical protestant leanings I held at the time, all the attention on the Pope made me uncomfortable. Still, realizing the opportunity may only come once, I squeezed into the lone ...read more

I was recently discussing the word ‘blood’ and the use of the verb ‘to bleed’ with a colleague.  By no means was it a very indepth, academic discussion, but it had me thinking about the word ‘blood.’ For many people the word ‘blood’ makes their, I wouldn’t say blood curdle, but I would say it ...read more

A year from today — July 15th — thousands will begin the World Youth Day 2008 experience in Australia. Two years have already quickly zipped by, and before you know it, Salt + Light will be providing reports to you from Sydney during the non-stop faith-filled week of World Youth Day activities! Registrations are going ...read more

Checking our Salt + Light Catholic Focus programming calendar: Coming up on the Wednesday, July 11th edition of Catholic Focus, Mary Rose Bacani looks at the world of blogs in ‘Once Upon a Blog.’ You can read Mary Rose’s thoughts on her program, which originally aired in March, by clicking here. Upcoming Catholic Focuses also ...read more

I wish all of you, especially those most in need, the possibility of taking a little vacation to reinvigorate your physical and spiritual energies and recover a salutary contact with nature. Those words from Pope Benedict XVI during his Sunday Angelus as he begins three weeks of vacation today. From July 9th to 27th, the ...read more

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a one week international meeting of NetOne. NetOne is a new initiative of the worldwide Focolare Movement aimed at promoting peace, truth, and universal brotherhood through the mass media. NetOne was born in 2000 as an effort to breathe new life into the digital age, and to ...read more

Salt + Light will be going on the road this weekend — or at least up the road to St. Michael’s College School in Toronto — to attend ‘Amazing Fruit,’ the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Canadian National Conference. The conference begins Friday, July 6th at 6pm, and continues to Sunday, July 8th. There is an additional ...read more

Catholics used to be predictable voters: they were Liberals in Canada (although Quebec was more conflicted) and Democrats in the United States. But, as polling after recent elections has shown, these associations have unsettled. Parties can no longer take their votes for granted. Could the majority of Catholics, perhaps sitting somewhere in the middle, be ...read more