Aug 26 Nietzsche and the 'murder' of God
Today in 1900 the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche died. The last ten years of his life had been filled with unhappiness...
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Pearl of Great Price
Aug 6, 20213 min read
Aug 7 The first 'mega-mass' in Munich -1960
On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1960 and travel to Munich where the 37th International Eucharistic Congress finished...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 30, 20213 min read
July 30 Johann Sebastian Bach
Today in 1750 the body of Johan Sebastian Bach was laid to rest in an unmarked grave at the churchyard of St. John’s, Leipzig. The...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 24, 20214 min read
June 25 The secret encyclical condemning Nazism
Today we remember how in a remarkable meeting in Rome Pope Pius XI missioned the American Jesuit John LaFarge to draft an encyclical on...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 21, 20214 min read
June 18 Laudato Si - Caring for our common home
Today in 2015, the ground-breaking encyclical Laudato Si was published. Building on the body of the Church’s social teaching it ...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 14, 20213 min read
June 15 Archbishop Stephen Langton and Magna Carta
The energetic leadership and conciliatory skills of Archbishop Stephen Langton forced King John to grant his seal to Magna Carta at...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 4, 20213 min read
Feb 3 - Guttenberg's Printing Press
Today in 1468 Johannes Gutenberg combined various elements, of movable type, oil based ink and a mechanical system allowed the mass...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 29, 20212 min read
Jan 12 Digging up the Bible
Today in 1897 we remember an amazing discovery in ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt. Two English archaeologists, Bernard...
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