Pray with Pope Francis Reflection – October 2024

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Fr. Edmund Lo, SJ

In this month of October, our Holy Father invites us to pray for a shared mission, that the Church continue to sustain in all ways a synodal lifestyle, as a sign of co-responsibility, promoting the participation, the communion and the mission shared among priests, religious and lay people.

Special SLHour Panel Discussion on the Synod

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Salt + Light Hour

For the last three years the Church has been walking on the path of synodality, culminating in Rome with the Assembly of the Synod – the first session in October 2023 and the second session, beginning October 2, 2024. Join Deacon Pedro and a panel of synodal experts: Julian Paparella, Sr. Gill Goulding, Linda Staudt […]

Pope Francis’ Prayer Intention for October 2024

Friday, October 4, 2024

Pope Francis

Let us pray that the Church continues to sustain a synodal lifestyle in every way, as a sign of co-responsibility, promoting the participation, communion and mission shared by priests, religious and laity.

Best of SLHour: Revisiting the Synod, Renova+ and
Music by Nico Cabrera and Ceili Rain!

Saturday, September 21, 2024

Salt + Light Hour

This week, on a special edition of the SLHour, we revisit some of the conversations we had on this program in the Fall of 2023. We learn about a new ministry from Argentina, Renova+, that is expanding into the U.S and we revisit what happened at the Synod on Synodality. We also meet singer/songwriter Nico […]

Best of SLHour: Revisiting the Synod, Renova+ and great music!

Saturday, January 27, 2024

Salt + Light Hour

Thoughts on the Synod and music by Damascus Worship!

Saturday, November 11, 2023

Salt + Light Hour

The first session of the Assembly of the Synod is over. This week we speak with Sr. Gill Goulding of the Synod’s Theological Commission who gives us her thoughts. Damien O’Connor of the Knights of Columbus has thoughts on what it’s like to be a Catholic family in a post-Christian world; Sr. Marie Paul Curley, […]

Communion: the wedding feast of the Lamb

Friday, October 13, 2023

Prof. Anna Rowlands

The first thing to say about communion is that it is the reality of God’s own life, the being of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In this sense, it is the most real thing there is: the ground of reality and source of the being of the Church.

“Enlarging the Tent”: Synod on Synodality extends its timeline and releases its guide for the Continental Stage: Part Two

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Matthew Neugebauer

Two recent bits of news have come out recently from the Synod General Secretariat. In Part One, I explored some implications of the announcement to extend the timeline of the synod process to 2024. In Part Two, I reflect on the newly-released Working Document for the Continental Stage. On October 27, 2022 the Synod Secretariat […]

“Enlarging the Tent”: Synod on Synodality extends its timeline and releases its guide for the Continental Stage: Part One

Monday, November 7, 2022

Matthew Neugebauer

Two main bits of news came out from the Synod on Synodality the last few weeks. First, the General Secretariat announced that Pope Francis has extended the formal synodal process by an extra year, adding a second session to the Ordinary Synod of Bishops in October, 2024. This will follow on from the first session, […]