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Aug 11, 20216 min read

Aug 10 Salvation Outside the Church

On August 10 1863 Pope Pius IX issued an encyclical Quanto conficiamur in which he expressed the possibility that non-Catholics and...

Jul 27, 20216 min read

July 27 Bonhoeffers Parents find out he is dead through the BBC

Today Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s, parents learnt of his execution by Nazis at Flossenberg concentration camp through a radio broadcast from...

Apr 17, 20216 min read

Apr 18 St Peters Basilica, the biggest church in the world

Today we remember how the cornerstone was laid for St Peters Basilica on the Vatican Hill outside of Rome. We look at the Egyptian...

Jan 31, 20213 min read

Jan 29 - Martin Luther's Wife

Today in 1552 Katharina von Bora was born, she became known as the ‘Lutheress’ because at the age of 26 she was to marry the reformer...

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