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...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 28, 2021
- 3 min
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 15, 2021
- 5 min
Sep 9 - Michael Novak, Theology of Capital
Michael Novak would become the author of more than forty books on the philosophy and theology of culture, and was most famous for the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 9, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 9, 2021
- 4 min
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 30, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 28 Medellin & Liberation Theology
Today we go back to year 1968 and travel to Medellin in Colombia, were the Second Latin American bishops' conference opened as a...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 24, 2021
- 4 min
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 13, 2021
- 8 min
July 13 C.S Lewis - A Grief Observed
Today we remember how the wife of C.S. Lewis died from cancer. Clive Staples Lewis was ranked eleventh on the Times newspaper list of...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 8, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Jul 6, 2021
- 6 min
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...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 5, 2021
- 8 min
July 6 Mircea Eliade and the Eternal Return
Today we look at the life and thought of Mircea Eliade a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 26, 2021
- 5 min
June 27 Rene Girard - Mimetic Desire & the Scapegoat
year 2008 and travel to St Andrews in Scotland were the French polymath, Rene Girard was given honorary degree at St Andrews. Beginning...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 22, 2021
- 3 min
June 23 Walter Ciszek - With God in Russia
Today in 1941 we travel to Russia where the American Jesuit Walter J. Ciszek was arrested under suspicion of being a spy for the Vatican...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 13, 2021
- 5 min
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 11, 2021
- 4 min
June 12 St Petersburg outlasts Leningrad
On the 12 June 1991, the citizens of Leningrad overwhelming voted to return the name of the city to St Petersburg. It was a clear...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 7, 2021
- 4 min
June 8 Gustavo Gutierrez and Liberation Theology
Gustavo Gutierrez, the Peruvian Dominican priest is seen by many as the father of Latin American Liberation Theology. We look at his...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 2, 2021
- 5 min
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 31, 2021
- 4 min
May 31 CELAM 5, Aparecida and Pope Francis
Today we look at the short history of the Latin American Bishops Conference, their most recent meeting in Mexico at Aparecida and how...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 14, 2021
- 6 min
May 15 The Pope, Workers Rights and Rerum Novarum
Seen by many as the start of Catholic Social teaching - this encyclical of Leo XIII has the unique distinction of being followed by two...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 12, 2021
- 5 min
May 13 The Shooting of John Paul II
Today we remember an assassination attempt that shocked the world. Its 1981, the last years of the Cold War, and the early years of the...
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