Nothing More Beautiful: “Evangelizing the Family”

Friday, November 9, 2012

Andrew Santos

On this season premiere of Nothing More Beautiful, Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton begins with a catechesis as he reflects on evangelizing the family. Witness speaker, Pierluigi Molla, talks about growing up with his mother, St. Gianna Beretta Molla (who beautifully enough, is Salt + Light’s patron saint). Join us for our season premiere of Nothing […]

Edmonton’s Archbishop reflects on eye-opening Haiti visit

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Salt + Light Media

The Archbishop of Edmonton is a familiar presence on Salt + Light — since 2008, S+L has televised the “Nothing More Beautiful” catechesis events at his cathedral. Archbishop Richard Smith’s national influence further grew in fall 2011 when he was elected president of the Canadian bishops’ conference. In this half-hour interview, Archbishop Smith speaks about […]

Nothing More Beautiful: The Church We Believe In Is Apostolic

Friday, May 13, 2011

Matthew Harrison

The Son of God came into this world, and good carpenter that he became under Joseph’s training, he gathered together the most rickety and knotty pieces of wood that he could find, and he built a ship that is still afloat after 2,000 years. That’s from the Scottish Catholic writer Bruce Marshall. Papal household preacher […]

Nothing More Beautiful: The Church We Believe in is Catholic

Friday, February 25, 2011

Matthew Harrison

The theme for the latest edition of Nothing More Beautiful is The Church We Believe in is Catholic. To stress the Catholicity, or the universality, of the Church, this episode takes on a bit more of an international flavour. You’ll notice flags from a number of countries in the Basilica — representing the many different […]

Nothing More Beautiful: The Church We Believe In Is Holy

Friday, December 17, 2010

Matthew Harrison

In the latest encounter of Nothing More Beautiful, Hamilton, Ontario’s Bishop Douglas Crosby, OMI, offers the catechesis talk. He shares a story from a retreat he was directing for students and professors at a university in Eastern Canada. The story begins: At noon we celebrated Mass in the boardroom. The room was packed, people standing […]

Nothing More Beautiful Season 2 now available on DVD

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Matthew Harrison

There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with him. Those words are from Pope Benedict XVI’s homily at the Mass inaugurating his Pontificate It’s also the inspiration for […]

This Saturday, Nothing More Beautiful: Jesus Christ — Crucified and Risen Lord

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Matthew Harrison

The latest encounter of Nothing More Beautiful focused on the theme of “Jesus Christ: Crucified and Risen Lord.” Vancouver’s Archbishop Michael Miller provides the catechesis talk. Ordained to the priesthood by Pope Paul VI in 1975, he became the Archbishop of Vancouver in January 2009. In addition to working in Rome in the area of […]

Nothing More Beautiful Season Two Premiere this Saturday

Friday, November 6, 2009

Matthew Harrison

I also came to understand that the purpose of prayer was not to change God’s mind, but to change my heart. Lydia Cristini, an Edmonton teacher, offered this insight as part of her witness talk in the first episode of the second season of Nothing More Beautiful, which premiers Saturday, November 7th. She had been […]