July 9 Brazil, a Papal stampede and Dom Helder Camara
Today in 1980 some people died in a stampede trying to get in to see Pope John Paul II in a soccer stadium in Fortaleza, Brazil. The...
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Pearl of Great Price
Jul 4, 20214 min read
July 4 Pulcheria and the Theotokos
Today in 432 a large crowd descended on the church in Constantinople cheering “Many years to Pulcheria! Many years to the empress!” They...
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
Jun 8, 20217 min read
June 9 Terese of Liseux - The Story of a Soul
At the age of 14, on Christmas Eve in 1886, Therese had a conversion that transformed her life. From then on, her powerful energy and...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 2, 20215 min read
June 3 Hitler's Pope?
Today in 1946 Pope Pius XII was declared on Moscow radio to have been ‘Hitlers Pope’. Thirty years later, the head of Romania's spy...
Pearl of Great Price
May 26, 20213 min read
May 27 The oldest continuing legal system
The Body of Canon law is historically continuous from the early church to the present, and such can claim to be the oldest functioning...
Pearl of Great Price
May 11, 20213 min read
May 12 John Paul II and Fatima's Third Secret
Today, we remember how Spanish ultratraditional priest, Fernández y Krohn assaulted Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. The Pope was in...
Pearl of Great Price
May 10, 20213 min read
May 11 Irish Monasticism
Today we mark the death of Comgall in the 7th Century and the birth of Irish Monasticism which developed some important distinctive...
Pearl of Great Price
May 10, 20214 min read
May 9 An Assassination tests the Pope's Faith
Aldo Moro's bullet ridden body was found in the trunk of a Renault in the centre of Rome on the 9th of May in 1978. Italy's longest...
Pearl of Great Price
May 6, 20213 min read
May 7 The Pope visits Romania, building bridges with the Orthodox
At the turn of the Millennium the first Slavic Pope, John Paul II made big steps towards reconciliation with the Orthodox Church. This...
Pearl of Great Price
May 4, 20213 min read
May 4 Dividing the 'New World'
Today we remember how in 1493 Pope Alexander VI, in an age of exploration divided the 'New World' between Spain and Portugal. Giving 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 28, 20217 min read
Apr 29 The Visions of Joan of Arc
Today the fascinating figure of Joan of Arc broke the siege of Orleans in 1429 and possibly delivered France from English domination. A...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 9, 20214 min read
Apr 9 Encyclicals
Today in 475 the Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus releases an Enkyklikon, a circular letter to the bishops of his empire about the...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 31, 20214 min read
Mar 30 Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation
Today in 1533 Thomas Cranmer was consecrated as the Archbishop of Canterbury in Westminster, London . Todays pod looks at his unlikely...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 26, 20213 min read
Mar 27 Meister Eckharts eco-mysticism
Today in 1329 Pope John XXII issued a bull condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical. In todays pod we look at his...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 23, 20214 min read
Mar 24 Papal Inderdicts and Magna Carta
Today in 1208 Pope Innocent III placed an interdict on the whole of England prohibiting clergy from conducting religious services. It...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 6, 20216 min read
Mar 6 Michelangelo
Michelangelo was born today, in 1474. His achievements as a sculptor, painter, architect and poet mean that he is often considered to be...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 13, 20211 min read
Feb 14 Who was St Valentine?
Today we try to get to the bottom of the disputed identity of St Valentine. Hi feast day was established by Pope Gelasius in 496.... but...
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