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...
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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 18, 20214 min read
Oct 5 Uganda -Ecumenism of Blood
Today Christians took control of the government after enduring years of persecution which had triggered a rebellion. The victory was in...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 14, 20214 min read
Oct 1 Guardini - The Lord
Today we are Munich in Bavaria, where one of the most creative theologians of the 20th Century, Romano Guardini died in 1968. His...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 28, 20213 min read
Sep 20 Christianity in Korea
Today in 1884 we remember how Dr. Horace Newton Allen arrived in Chemulpo, Korea, praying for an opportunity to evangelize Korea, where...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 9, 20214 min read
Sep 4 Croatia, Fascism, Catholics & Orthodox
Today in 1941, the abbot of the Sisatovac monastery in Croatia, Rafailo Momcilovic would die, he had been kidnapped by the Ustaše on 25...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 29, 20213 min read
Aug 27 The first businessman to be declared a saint?
Today it's 1962 and we travel to Argentina where Enrique Ernesto Shaw, the Founder of the Christian Association of Business Executives...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 27, 20216 min read
Aug 22 De Lubac & Spiritual Worldliness
Today we travel to Lyon where the French Jesuit, Henri De Lubac was ordained a priest in 1927. Earlie in his training, the French ...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 12, 20213 min read
Aug 12 Golden Roses & Aparecida
Today in 1967 Pope Paul VI granted a Golden rose to Aparecida Cathedral in Brazil. The Golden Rose is an ornament, which popes have...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 27, 20215 min read
July 25 Left Behind, the Rapture & Armageddon
Today in 2016 in San Diego, the American Baptist pastor and author Tim LaHaye, died aged 90. He will be remembered as the author of the...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 24, 20214 min read
July 23 Cuba's Hurricane Priest
The Jesuit priest Benito Vines spent decades observing the skies at the Belen Observatory in colonial Cuba. He is now seen as a pioneer...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 8, 20213 min read
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 27, 20213 min read
June 28 Monsignor Benson's Lord of the World
Today in 1906 Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson finished his dystopian science fiction novel called Lord of the World that centres upon the...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 21, 20214 min read
June 18 Laudato Si - Caring for our common home
Today in 2015, the ground-breaking encyclical Laudato Si was published. Building on the body of the Church’s social teaching it ...
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 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
May 24, 20216 min read
May 25 The Ecumenical Imperative
it’s the 25th of May and on this day in Christian History we go back to year 1995 and travel to Rome where Ut Unum Sint, the first...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 8, 20213 min read
Mar 7 The New Rite
Today, Pope Paul VI celebrated the first Mass in Italian (rather than Latin) , facing the people, at the church of All Saints in the Via...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 11, 20211 min read
Feb 12 - Pope and Patriach meet in Cuba
Today we only go back to 2016 and look at a truly historical meeting, the first time the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Moscow...
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