Today we look at the short history of the Latin American Bishops Conference, their most recent meeting in Mexico at Aparecida and how...

One of the greatest writers in the English language at the beginning of the 20th Century. On an intense spiritual journey that took him...

The Body of Canon law is historically continuous from the early church to the present, and such can claim to be the oldest functioning...

it’s the 25th of May and on this day in Christian History we go back to year 1995 and travel to Rome where Ut Unum Sint, the first...

Today the famous Trevi Fountain was finished by Pannini, and was officially opened and inaugurated on this day by Pope Clement XIII. We...

Today we remember the first Ecumenical Council of the Church. It is now famous for its Christian statement of belief that is widely used...

Alcuin was one of the greatest minds of the Eight Century. Spearheading the educational reform of the Court of Charlemagne, he advanced...

We remember the historical expedition of missionary Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, a French-Canadian explorer to explore the...

A book known as Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot) full of exploration, religious symbolism, and...

Seen by many as the start of Catholic Social teaching - this encyclical of Leo XIII has the unique distinction of being followed by two...

Today we remember an assassination attempt that shocked the world. Its 1981, the last years of the Cold War, and the early years of the...

Today, we remember how Spanish ultratraditional priest, Fernández y Krohn assaulted Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. The Pope was in...

Today we mark the death of Comgall in the 7th Century and the birth of Irish Monasticism which developed some important distinctive...

Aldo Moro's bullet ridden body was found in the trunk of a Renault in the centre of Rome on the 9th of May in 1978. Italy's longest...

The French Revolution became a concerted and violent attempt to build a new Society. Their attempts to De-Christianise the culture were...

At the turn of the Millennium the first Slavic Pope, John Paul II made big steps towards reconciliation with the Orthodox Church. This...

Its been described as the most stolen piece of art, the first great oil painting of the Northern Renaissance. A complex multi-panelled...

Today we remember how in 1493 Pope Alexander VI, in an age of exploration divided the 'New World' between Spain and Portugal. Giving the...

The last polymath of the renaissance era was Fr Antanasius Kircher SJ. A giant among seventeenth-century scholars and at the dawn of the...

Today in the year 2000, the Polish Mystic Faustina Kowalska was declared a saint in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine...