Today in 1950, Mother Teresa founded the religious order the Missionaries of Charity. Today she received permission from the Holy See to...

Today in 1869 we remember the birth near Hannover in Germany of Rudolph Otto. He is now regarded as one of the most influential...

Richard Challoner would become the leading figure of English Catholicism for the greater part of the eighteenth century. He was bright...

Michael Novak would become the author of more than forty books on the philosophy and theology of culture, and was most famous for the...

Today in 1989 the journal Science published the results of the work of Francis Collins who identified the gene which explained cystic...

Today the great experimentalist Michael Faraday induced the first electrical current. Faraday would later use the principles he had...

Today we travel to Lyon where the French Jesuit, Henri De Lubac was ordained a priest in 1927. Earlie in his training, the French ...

Its 1868 and we are in Jordan where late in the afternoon during a coffee break, the sheikh of the Banî Hamîdi tribe informed the German...

Today we got to 1944 Hungary where a dispatch from Angelo Roncalli to the papal nuncio in Hungary illustrated the intensity of...

We travel to 1903 Dublin , Ireland were the Irish novelist and poet, James Joyce returned to Ireland from studies in Paris when his...

Today in 2016 in San Diego, the American Baptist pastor and author Tim LaHaye, died aged 90. He will be remembered as the author of the...

Today we remember how in a remarkable meeting in Rome Pope Pius XI missioned the American Jesuit John LaFarge to draft an encyclical on...

Today in 1941 we travel to Russia where the American Jesuit Walter J. Ciszek was arrested under suspicion of being a spy for the Vatican...

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...

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...

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

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...

Today we remember 26 Christians who were crucified in Nagasaki in 1597. Tracing the rollercoaster story of Christianity in Japan, early...