Today in 1906 Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson finished his dystopian science fiction novel called Lord of the World that centres upon the...

year 2008 and travel to St Andrews in Scotland were the French polymath, Rene Girard was given honorary degree at St Andrews. Beginning...

Today in 1988 we remember the death of one of the greatest theological minds of the 20th Century. Hans Urs Von Balthazar died just two...

Today we remember the beatification of Kateri Takakwitha, a Mohawk woman. Born in 1656 in what is now New York state, she belonged to...

Today in 1902 Lord Acton died. John Acton was the English Catholic historian, died in Bavaria, Germany. Now famous for his saying...

George Loveless, a ploughman, community leader and Methodist preacher returned from exile today in 1837, from what was then known as Van...

In 1833 the young Anglican priest John Henry Newman, while traveling on a ship from Italy to France, wrote the words to the hymn, “Lead...

The energetic leadership and conciliatory skills of Archbishop Stephen Langton forced King John to grant his seal to Magna Carta at...

Today we remember how church bells rung out, bravely, around the country in defiance of the Communist party in Hungary who had severely...

On the 12 June 1991, the citizens of Leningrad overwhelming voted to return the name of the city to St Petersburg. It was a clear...

Fulton Sheen was consecrated a bishop on June 11, 1951. A charismatic speaker and pioneer of religious media in the 20th century, he...

Gustavo Gutierrez, the Peruvian Dominican priest is seen by many as the father of Latin American Liberation Theology. We look at his...

A landmark case that started in 1982 found that it was not allowed to have a minutes silence in Alabama Schools. Bitterly fought it went...

A Jesuit priest from India and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality, integrating ancient eastern...

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

Today we go back to year 1795 and travel to Baltimore where, a young William Colgate arrived in the US and settled in Harford County,...

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

Today in Dublin in 1826, a teenager with a big heart an a desire to do something important called Thomas Bernardo experienced an...

Samuel Sharpe was hanged today in Jamaica for his role in organising as slave uprising referred to by historians as 'The Baptist War'. ...

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