Pearl of Great PriceOct 14, 20215 minSep 30 George Tyrell and Modernism Today in 1907 and a letter in the Times from the priest George Tyrell, and publisjed in London, which was against the papal encyclical...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 2, 20215 minSep 27 Teresa of Avila declared the first female doctor of the church 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...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 2, 20214 minSep 1 Fr Dowling's Spiritual Exercises and the AA movementEdward Dowling was born today in 1898. He would be ordained a priest and become the advisor to Bill Wilson who founded Alcoholic...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 20, 20214 minAug 18 Filming the ExorcistToday in Washington the principal photography for The Exorcist began. The film would win two Oscars and become the first horror film to...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 14, 20214 minAug 13 James Joyce, Faith and UlyseesWe travel to 1903 Dublin , Ireland were the Irish novelist and poet, James Joyce returned to Ireland from studies in Paris when his...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 6, 20215 minAug 5 Bill W & Alcoholics AnonymousToday 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....
Pearl of Great PriceJul 24, 20214 minJuly 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 PriceJul 17, 20214 minJuly 17 China, Matteo Ricci and the Oldest NewspaperYing Lianzhi, a Catholic Manchu aristocrat, founded a newspaper, today, in 1902 in order to, "help China become a modern and democratic...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 25, 20216 minJune 26 Beauty, Truth & Goodness - Hans Urs von BalthazarToday in 1988 we remember the death of one of the greatest theological minds of the 20th Century. Hans Urs Von Balthazar died just two...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 24, 20214 minJune 25 The secret encyclical condemning NazismToday we remember how in a remarkable meeting in Rome Pope Pius XI missioned the American Jesuit John LaFarge to draft an encyclical on...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 22, 20213 minJune 23 Walter Ciszek - With God in RussiaToday 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 PriceJun 21, 20213 minJune 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...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 1, 20213 minJune 2 Anthony De MelloA Jesuit priest from India and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality, integrating ancient eastern...
Pearl of Great PriceMay 31, 20214 minMay 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 PriceMay 16, 20213 minMay 17 Marquette Mapping the MississippiWe remember the historical expedition of missionary Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, a French-Canadian explorer to explore the...
Pearl of Great PriceMay 1, 20213 minMay 2 The Polymath Priest who studied the Plague The last polymath of the renaissance era was Fr Antanasius Kircher SJ. A giant among seventeenth-century scholars and at the dawn of the...
Pearl of Great PriceApr 26, 20217 minApr 26 William Shakespeare's Baptism and hidden messagesToday we remember the earliest record we have of William Shakespeares life - April 26th 1564 the day he was baptised in the Holy Trinity...
Pearl of Great PriceApr 19, 20213 minApr 20 Angelo Secchi, Spectroscopy and the Papal YachtToday the Vaticans astronomer Fr Angelo Secchi came aboard the papal yacht on the Azure waters of the Mediterranean to demonstrate his...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 5, 20213 minFeb 5 - Japans hidden Christians Today we remember 26 Christians who were crucified in Nagasaki in 1597. Tracing the rollercoaster story of Christianity in Japan, early...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 4, 20213 minFeb 4 - Mormons journey to Utah Today on Feb 4 we remember how the Church of the Latter Day Saints left their wintering grounds in search of a safe place to establish...