Oct 8 Japans Shindler's List
Mrs. Yukiko Sugihara, who had helped her husband, Chiune, rescue thousands of Jews from Lithuania during World War II. They were a...
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Pearl of Great Price
Sep 15, 20215 min read
Sep 9 - Michael Novak, Theology of Capital
Michael Novak would become the author of more than forty books on the philosophy and theology of culture, and was most famous for the...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 30, 20213 min read
Aug 28 Medellin & Liberation Theology
Today we go back to year 1968 and travel to Medellin in Colombia, were the Second Latin American bishops' conference opened as a...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 14, 20214 min read
Aug 14 Maximillian Kolbe
Today in Poland, the Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz....
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 27, 20216 min read
July 27 Bonhoeffers Parents find out he is dead through the BBC
Today Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s, parents learnt of his execution by Nazis at Flossenberg concentration camp through a radio broadcast from...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 22, 20213 min read
June 23 Walter Ciszek - With God in Russia
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 13, 20215 min read
June 14 The Hungarian church bravely defies the Communists
Today we remember how church bells rung out, bravely, around the country in defiance of the Communist party in Hungary who had severely...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 12, 20213 min read
June 13 The Doctor who discovered the causes of Downs Syndrome and then became their defender
Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was born today in 1926. He would become a medical doctor and was a pioneering researcher all his life. ...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 7, 20214 min read
June 8 Gustavo Gutierrez and Liberation Theology
Gustavo Gutierrez, the Peruvian Dominican priest is seen by many as the father of Latin American Liberation Theology. We look at his...
Pearl of Great Price
May 31, 20214 min read
May 31 CELAM 5, Aparecida and Pope Francis
Today we look at the short history of the Latin American Bishops Conference, their most recent meeting in Mexico at Aparecida and how...
Pearl of Great Price
May 12, 20215 min read
May 13 The Shooting of John Paul II
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 29, 20214 min read
Apr 30 Divine Mercy and the Polish Mystic
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 13, 20213 min read
Apr 14 The Founding of Poland
Conservative thinkers often refer to 'the estate of marriage' - as providing a stabilising influence on society. Today we remember how...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 13, 20214 min read
Apr 13 The Pope and the Synagogue
The Jewish people suffered waves of persecution in Rome over the years and a proverb emerged amongst the people ‘The persecution will...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 18, 20211 min read
Feb 19 A Copernican Revolution
Today in 1473 Nicolaus Copernicus was born in the Kingdom of Poland. A mathematician, astronomer, and priest - he profoundly changed the...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 29, 20213 min read
Jan 17 - Baptising Children?
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 26, 20212 min read
Jan 10 John Paul II & Ronald Reagan
On Jan 10 1984 The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in 117 years. This was mainly...
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