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Oct 24 Chartres Cathedral - Jewel of Civilisation
Season 10 Episode 24
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A series of churches and cathedrals have stood in Chartres since the 4th Century. A testament to resilience and perseverance, the current one dating back nearly eight hundred years is a…
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Oct 23 Chang Kei Shek is baptised in China
Season 10 Episode 23
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Chang Kei Shek was the longest leader of China in the 20th Century - although his later years he spent in Taiwan - escaping from the Communists. Today we remember his baptism due to hi…
Published on 1 week, 4 days ago
Oct 22 Tillich - God as the Ground of Being
Season 10 Episode 22
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Paul Tillich became on of Protestantism's most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. His life and career had two parts in Germany and the America. Scarred by his experience of World…
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Oct 21 Gerard Manley Hopkins - The priest who was a poet
Season 10 Episode 21
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Hopkins has been described as the most influential Victorian Poet with his creative us of language and sprung rhythm. A Jesuit priest - he had a lifelong struggle balance his poetic im…
Published on 1 week, 6 days ago
Oct 20 Schillebeeckx and the empty tomb
Season 10 Episode 20
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Edward Schillebeeckx was a provocative and influential theologian. His book on Christology today lead him to be invited to Rome to answer some questions about what he was teaching about…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Oct 19 Solidarity, Poland and the assassination of a priest
Season 10 Episode 19
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Today in1984 the Polish priest Jerzy Popiełuszko was beaten to death by three Security Police officers. He was a friend of Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement who overthrew the co…
Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Oct 18 Caravaggio and the Mafia
Season 10 Episode 18
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Caravaggio was one of the greatest artists of the European Renaissance. He also lead one of the wildest lives. We look at how one of his paintings was stolen in Palermo. We also look a…
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Oct 17 The Nobel Peace Prize and Mother Teresa
Season 10 Episode 17
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The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes in the world. We look at famous Christians who were awarded it , as well as who didn't and the speech given by the first nun …
Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Oct 16 The Quantam Physicist who became a priest - Polkinghorne
Season 10 Episode 16
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John Polkinghorne believed that science and religion provided a binocular vision of the truth. He left a prestigious post in Physics and Cambridge University to become an Anglican priest
Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Oct 15 How we measure time - Pope Gregory's Calendar
Season 10 Episode 15
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The Gregorian calendar is now almost universally used. This is the story about how Pope Gregory promulgated it after some revisions were made of the Julian Calendar which slightly overe…
Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago