Mrs. Yukiko Sugihara, who had helped her husband, Chiune, rescue thousands of Jews from Lithuania during World War II. They were a...

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 we go back to year 1968 and travel to Medellin in Colombia, were the Second Latin American bishops' conference opened as a...

Today in Poland, the Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz....

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

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...

Today we remember how church bells rung out, bravely, around the country in defiance of the Communist party in Hungary who had severely...

Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was born today in 1926. He would become a medical doctor and was a pioneering researcher all his life. ...

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

Today we look at the short history of the Latin American Bishops Conference, their most recent meeting in Mexico at Aparecida and how...

Today we remember an assassination attempt that shocked the world. Its 1981, the last years of the Cold War, and the early years of the...

Today in the year 2000, the Polish Mystic Faustina Kowalska was declared a saint in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine...

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

The Jewish people suffered waves of persecution in Rome over the years and a proverb emerged amongst the people ‘The persecution will...

Today in 1473 Nicolaus Copernicus was born in the Kingdom of Poland. A mathematician, astronomer, and priest - he profoundly changed the...

Today in 1525 there was a public debate in Zurich, arranged by the city council, on whether it was permitted to baptise infants. Lead by...

On Jan 10 1984 The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in 117 years. This was mainly...