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Oct 22, 20216 min read

Oct 7 - Mother Teresa founds her order

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

Aug 6, 20213 min read

Aug 6 Conclave

Today in 1494. the first conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel opened. Concerns about political interference in the election of a...

Jul 29, 20217 min read

July 29 Humane Vitae - Prophetic or Overreach?

Today in 1968 a press conference launched the controversial papal encyclical Humanae Vitae. It would be the last of Paul VI's 7...

Jul 6, 20216 min read

July 7 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Repenting in the Gulag

The Russian writer Alexander Solzenhitsyn was sentenced in his absence to an eight year term in a labour camp in Siberia. He would be...

Mar 21, 20214 min read

Mar 21 - Papier Mache Papal Tiara

Today in an extra-ordinary ceremony Pius VII was crowned Pope in a Benedictine Monastery with a temporary papal tiara made of...

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