June 12 St Petersburg outlasts Leningrad
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...
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Pearl of Great Price
Jun 10, 20216 min read
June 11 The Emmy winning Bishop - Fulton Sheen
Fulton Sheen was consecrated a bishop on June 11, 1951. A charismatic speaker and pioneer of religious media in the 20th century, he...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 9, 20216 min read
June 10 Von Harnack, Theology of Culture and the Jesus of History
Today we remember the death of Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack , an influential German theologian and historian; who had a huge impact on...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 8, 20217 min read
June 9 Terese of Liseux - The Story of a Soul
At the age of 14, on Christmas Eve in 1886, Therese had a conversion that transformed her life. From then on, her powerful energy and...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 7, 20214 min read
June 8 Gustavo Gutierrez and Liberation Theology
Gustavo Gutierrez, the Peruvian Dominican priest is seen by many as the father of Latin American Liberation Theology. We look at his...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 6, 20218 min read
June 7 Antoni Gaudi and the Sagrada Familia
The great basilica of the Sagrada Familia is linked to one man, the genius, mystic and ascetic Antoni Gaudi. We look at the remarkable...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 5, 20213 min read
June 6 John Polkinghorne - Science & Religion
Today we remember how in 1982 and travel to where the theoretical physicist John Polkinghorne was ordained an Anglican priest in...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 4, 20213 min read
June 5 The Sermon that inspired the Riot Act
Rev Henry Sacheverell had become famous in England for preaching an incendiary sermon on the 5 November. In his impeachment trial by the...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 4, 20213 min read
June 4 Silencing Prayer in Schools
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 2, 20215 min read
June 3 Hitler's Pope?
Today in 1946 Pope Pius XII was declared on Moscow radio to have been ‘Hitlers Pope’. Thirty years later, the head of Romania's spy...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 1, 20213 min read
June 2 Anthony De Mello
A Jesuit priest from India and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality, integrating ancient eastern...
Pearl of Great Price
May 31, 20214 min read
June 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls
A Bedouin shepherd throwing a stone into a cave on the shore of the Dead Sea was puzzled by the cracking sound within. Investigating he...
Pearl of Great Price
May 31, 20214 min read
May 31 CELAM 5, Aparecida and Pope Francis
Today we look at the short history of the Latin American Bishops Conference, their most recent meeting in Mexico at Aparecida and how...
Pearl of Great Price
May 29, 20213 min read
May 30 The Confessing Church resisting the Nazis
Today in 1934 the first synod of the Confessing Church ended. They issued the important Barmen Declaration. An important and brave...
Pearl of Great Price
May 28, 20214 min read
May 29 G.K.Chesterton's quest for orthodoxy
One of the greatest writers in the English language at the beginning of the 20th Century. On an intense spiritual journey that took him...
Pearl of Great Price
May 27, 20213 min read
May 28 William Cogate and Tithing
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,...
Pearl of Great Price
May 26, 20213 min read
May 27 The oldest continuing legal system
The Body of Canon law is historically continuous from the early church to the present, and such can claim to be the oldest functioning...
Pearl of Great Price
May 25, 20214 min read
May 26 Barnardo's
Today in Dublin in 1826, a teenager with a big heart an a desire to do something important called Thomas Bernardo experienced an...
Pearl of Great Price
May 24, 20216 min read
May 25 The Ecumenical Imperative
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...
Pearl of Great Price
May 23, 20213 min read
May 24 John Wesley's Conversion
In Aldersgate, London, Anglican priest John Wesley had an experience in the middle of a spiritual crisis which lead to establishment of...
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