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Oct 15, 20213 min read

Oct 2 Mindzenty of Hungary

Today in 1945 we travel to Hungary where Josef Mindzentsy was appointed Archbishop and leader of the Catholic Church - a position with...

Sep 9, 20213 min read

Sep 5 Joseph Beran - Courage in front of totalitarianism

Today in 1942 the Czech priest Joseph Beran was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. He was given number 25844 after the Nazis...

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 ...

Aug 17, 20213 min read

Aug 16 Operation Baptism

Today we got to 1944 Hungary where a dispatch from Angelo Roncalli to the papal nuncio in Hungary illustrated the intensity of...

Jul 2, 20213 min read

July 3 Prester John and Marco Polo

For more than 500 years, Europeans believed a Christian king ruled over a vast empire somewhere in the wilds of Africa, India or the Far...

Jun 24, 20214 min read

June 25 The secret encyclical condemning Nazism

Today we remember how in a remarkable meeting in Rome Pope Pius XI missioned the American Jesuit John LaFarge to draft an encyclical on...

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...

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...

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