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May 15 Rerum Novarum, the Pope and Revolution
Season 5 Episode 15
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Rerum Novarum was described as ground breaking - the foundational encyclical on Catholic Social Teaching. The only encyclical to spaw…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
May 14 Salem Witch Trials
Season 5 Episode 14
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The infamous Salem Witch trials are now understood to be a bout of Puritan Mass Hysteria - and some historians argue lead to the end …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
May 12 The Pope and Fatima's third secret
Season 5 Episode 12
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On a thanksgiving pilgrimage to Fatima Pope John Paul II was attacked by a ultra-conservative priest brandishing a bayonet. Why was t…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
May 13 Shooting in St Peters Square
Season 5 Episode 13
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Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca came millimeters from killing John Paul II today by shooting him four times at close range in St Pete…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Feb 12 The Havana Declaration
Season 2 Episode 12
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Today in 2016 saw the first-ever meeting between a Pope and the head of the Russian Orthodox church, we discuss how it came about and…
1 year, 2 months ago
Feb 8 The Quaker Benjamin Lay and Anti-Slavery
Season 2 Episode 8
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Today we look at a remarkable character and his powerful witness against slavery, Benjamin Lay. We also look at the spiritual moveme…
1 year, 2 months ago
Feb 7 The Bonfire of the Vanities
Season 2 Episode 6
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Today we remember the apocalyptical and puritanical Savanarola and his Bonfire of the Vanities that was lit today in Florence in 1497
1 year, 2 months ago
Sep 7 Ethno-religious riots in Jos, Nigeria
Season 9 Episode 7
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Jos - the capital of the Plateau state in Nigeria's Central Belt is also a flashpoint for tension and violence between the Christian …
1 year, 7 months ago
Sep 6 Blaise Pascale, Salvation & Jansenism and The Index of Prohibited Books
Season 9 Episode 6
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Today we remember how the Vatican placed the Pascals Provincial Letters on the Index. He was a brilliant French polymath, the invento…
1 year, 8 months ago
Sep 5 Cardinal Josef Beran - opposition to totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia
Season 9 Episode 5
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Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague defied both the Nazis and the Communists. He nearly died of typhus in Dachau concentration camp and …
1 year, 8 months ago