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Best of SLHour: NET Ministries and other great conversations

Saturday, August 17, 2019

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Check out this week's radio program featuring interviews with Sri Lankan priest Fr. Basil Fernando and musicians Ivan Diaz and Sarah Kroger.

SLHour: Responding to the Sri Lanka Easter attacks

Saturday, June 29, 2019

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How do we respond to the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka? This week Fr. Basil Fernando of Pontifical Mission Societies of Sri Lanka joins us for a featured chat.  Emilie brings us the news; Sr. Marie Paul Curley, fsp, gives us the windows to the soul to two new films; Billy has a question for […]

Out On the Road Again – Francis to Bosnia

Monday, February 2, 2015

Stefan Slovak

During his Angelus Address on Sunday, Pope Francis announced that he would be making a one day trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina this coming June. It appears the Holy Father has an appetite for difficult cases, as the former Yugoslav republic is no walk in the park. Most will recall the Bosnian War that broke out following […]

Pope Francis’ First Audience After Returning from Asia – Perspectives Daily

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Stefan Slovak

Today on Perspectives, Pope Francis holds his first General Audience following his Apostolic Journey to Asia, a number of new appointments at the Vatican and a look ahead at upcoming Salt and Light events.

Pope Francis in Asia; Michael Keaton, Andy Warhol – Catholic?

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Noel Ocol

Welcome to S+L’s Weekly News Round-Up. As the Director of Marketing and Communications here at S+L, many interesting Catholic news stories and articles come across my desk on a daily basis. Some of them we’ll cover on our different television programs and others I’d like to share with you on this blog. Enjoy! So the Holy […]

The Politics of Papal Travel – The Free Speech Edition

Monday, January 19, 2015

Stefan Slovak

Sunday saw Pope Francis wrap up what was by all accounts, an enormously successful trip to Asia. He canonized Sri Lanka’s first saint, celebrated the single largest Mass in the Church’s history in Manila (attendance estimated to have been between six and seven million) and received nothing short of a rock star welcome everywhere he […]

Vatican Connections: January 16, 2015

Friday, January 16, 2015

Alicia Ambrosio

It is not unheard of for non-Catholics to visit Catholic churches and shrines. It is less common to have non-Catholics visit those sites, pray alongside the faithful and claim to have received graces through the experience. Sri Lanka’s Madhu Shrine is such a site, and it had a profound effect on Pope Francis. The shrine […]

The exception to the rule: Vatican diplomacy

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Sebastian Gomes

Before departing for Sri Lanka on Monday, Pope Francis delivered his annual address to the diplomatic corps, providing an occasion for reflection on the matter of politics and the Church and more specifically—in light of the recent revelation of Vatican involvement in the easing of USA-Cuba relations—on the Catholic Church’s role in global politics. 2014 […]

Pope Francis Canonizes Sri Lanka’s First Saint – Perspectives Daily

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Stefan Slovak

Today on Perspectives, Pope Francis Canonizes Sri Lanka’s first saint and visits Sri Lanka’s holiest Marian Shrine.

Pope Francis’ Address at Marian Shrine of Madhu – Sri Lanka

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

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On Wednesday, January 14, 2015, Pope Francis attended a Marian Prayer service at the Madhu Shrine in Colombo. Below you can find his full address during the service: Address of His Holiness Pope Francis Marian Prayer Madhu Shrine January 14, 2015 Dear Brothers and Sisters, We are in our Mother’s house.  Here she welcomes us […]

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