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Sep 20, 20216 min read

Sep 12 Richard Challoner - leading under pressure

Richard Challoner would become the leading figure of English Catholicism for the greater part of the eighteenth century. He was bright...

Aug 6, 20215 min read

Aug 5 Bill W & Alcoholics Anonymous

Today in 1934 Bill Wilson was lying in Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in New York City under the care of Dr....

Jul 6, 20216 min read

July 7 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Repenting in the Gulag

The Russian writer Alexander Solzenhitsyn was sentenced in his absence to an eight year term in a labour camp in Siberia. He would be...

Jun 21, 20213 min read

June 22 The First Native North American Saint

Today we remember the beatification of Kateri Takakwitha, a Mohawk woman. Born in 1656 in what is now New York state, she belonged to...

Jun 21, 20214 min read

June 20 Fr George Lemaitre and the Big Bang

The pioneering priest and physicist George Lemaitre died today. He is famous for proposing the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the...

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...

Jun 1, 20213 min read

June 2 Anthony De Mello

A Jesuit priest from India and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality, integrating ancient eastern...

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