Oct 5 Uganda -Ecumenism of Blood
Today Christians took control of the government after enduring years of persecution which had triggered a rebellion. The victory was in...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 14, 2021
- 4 min
Oct 1 Guardini - The Lord
Today we are Munich in Bavaria, where one of the most creative theologians of the 20th Century, Romano Guardini died in 1968. His...
Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 2, 2021
- 5 min
Sep 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 Price
- Sep 14, 2021
- 5 min
Sep 6 Blaise Pascal, Jansenism and Salvation
Today in 1657 the Vatican placed Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters on the Index of Prohibited Books. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum...
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
- 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
- Aug 14, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 14 Maximillian Kolbe
Today in Poland, the Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz....
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 12, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 12 Golden Roses & Aparecida
Today in 1967 Pope Paul VI granted a Golden rose to Aparecida Cathedral in Brazil. The Golden Rose is an ornament, which popes have...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 27, 2021
- 5 min
July 26 Padre Pio
Today in 1919, Dr Amico Bignami conducted an investigation into the strange wounds that had appeared on the body of Francesco Forgione, a...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 22, 2021
- 5 min
July 22 Mary Magdalene
Today in 2016 Pope Francis passed a decree declaring a major feast day in honour of Mary Magdalene to be celebrated annually on July...
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
- May 20, 2021
- 3 min
May 21 Attacking the Pieta
Today in St Peters, Rome, a 33 year old man called Lazlo Toth, wielding a geologist's hammer shouted, "I am Jesus Christ — risen from the...
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