Today in 2000 we travel to Hyderabad, India where a quarter of a million Christians clogged the streets, to pay their final respects to...

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 we go back to year 1968 and travel to Medellin in Colombia, were the Second Latin American bishops' conference opened as a...

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 ...

Today in Poland, the Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz....

Today in 1967 Pope Paul VI granted a Golden rose to Aparecida Cathedral in Brazil. The Golden Rose is an ornament, which popes have...

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

Today in 1494. the first conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel opened. Concerns about political interference in the election of a...

Today in 1942 the Carmelite Nun Edith Stein was arrested in her convent in the Netherlands by the SS and taken to Auschwitz concentration...

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

Today in 1919, Dr Amico Bignami conducted an investigation into the strange wounds that had appeared on the body of Francesco Forgione, a...

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...

Today in 1988 we remember the death of one of the greatest theological minds of the 20th Century. Hans Urs Von Balthazar died just two...

It was in Flushing Meadows in New York where the American evangelist Billy Graham today began what he said would be his last North...

Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was born today in 1926. He would become a medical doctor and was a pioneering researcher all his life. ...

Fulton Sheen was consecrated a bishop on June 11, 1951. A charismatic speaker and pioneer of religious media in the 20th century, he...

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...

Gustavo Gutierrez, the Peruvian Dominican priest is seen by many as the father of Latin American Liberation Theology. We look at his...

Today we look at the short history of the Latin American Bishops Conference, their most recent meeting in Mexico at Aparecida and how...