Today in 1950, Mother Teresa founded the religious order the Missionaries of Charity. Today she received permission from the Holy See to...

Today we are Munich in Bavaria, where one of the most creative theologians of the 20th Century, Romano Guardini died in 1968. His...

Today Leo was consecrated bishop of Rome becoming the pope. His papacy was very significant, famous for his meeting with Attila the Hun...

Today in 1970 and travel to Rome where Pope Paul VI finally named the Spanish Mystic and reformer, Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, a...

Today in 1860 we remember the Death from cholera of the Russian theologian Alexei Khomiakov, while treating peasants during an epidemic....

Today we remember the death of the Swiss doctor and mystic Adrienne von Speyr. Born and raised during the early twentieth century in a...

Michael Novak would become the author of more than forty books on the philosophy and theology of culture, and was most famous for the...

Today in 1657 the Vatican placed Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters on the Index of Prohibited Books. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum...

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

Today in 1900 the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche died. The last ten years of his life had been filled with unhappiness...

Today we travel to Taizé in France where today in 2005 the founder of the world famous ecumenical community was buried days after he had...

Today we travel to Lyon where the French Jesuit, Henri De Lubac was ordained a priest in 1927. Earlie in his training, the French ...

Its 1885, we are in Scotland, where today Lord Adam Giffords’ will was finalised. A large part of his substantial fortune made from a...

Today we travel to Germany where the influential Lutheran theologian Rudolf Karl Bultmann was born in 1884. One of the pioneers of the...

On August 10 1863 Pope Pius IX issued an encyclical Quanto conficiamur in which he expressed the possibility that non-Catholics and...

On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1960 and travel to Munich where the 37th International Eucharistic Congress finished...

Today in 1750 the body of Johan Sebastian Bach was laid to rest in an unmarked grave at the churchyard of St. John’s, Leipzig. The...

Today in 1968 a press conference launched the controversial papal encyclical Humanae Vitae. It would be the last of Paul VI's 7...

Today Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s, parents learnt of his execution by Nazis at Flossenberg concentration camp through a radio broadcast from...

Today we remember how in AD 70 the armies of the Roman Emperor Titus attacked the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege, starting...