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

Today an English archaeologist, Flinders Petrie discovered a remarkable stone with an inscription on it by the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh...

Today we look at the life and thought of Mircea Eliade a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at...

Today the Puritan poet John Milton sold for ten pounds the copyright of his epic poem Paradise Lost. This lament, written after Cromwell...

Conservative thinkers often refer to 'the estate of marriage' - as providing a stabilising influence on society. Today we remember how...

Today on Feb 4 we remember how the Church of the Latter Day Saints left their wintering grounds in search of a safe place to establish...