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June 29 Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Poet of the Spirit
Season 6 Episode 29
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A Victorian Poet who was outstanding for her poetry - love sonnets, religious poem and feminist poetry. She died today after eloping to Italy with her husband.
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June 28 Monsignor Benson's the Lord of the World - the father of Dystopian Science Fiction
Season 6 Episode 28
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Lord of the World is a 1907 dystopian science fiction novel by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson that centres upon the reign of the Antichrist and the end of the world. It has been called pr…
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June 27 Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - Girard
Season 6 Episode 27
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One of the most innovative thinkers of the 20th century was the polymath Rene Girard. His theory about mimetic desire, mimetic rivalry and the scapegoating mechanism have had a huge eff…
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June 26 Beauty, Goodness, Truth - Von Balthazar
Season 6 Episode 26
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One of the greatest theologians of the 20th Century, Hans Urs Von Balthazar. We look at his monumental 15 volume work and his relationship with the mystic Adrienne Von Speyer.
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June 25 The Secret Encyclical against the Nazis
Season 6 Episode 25
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John Lafarge, an American Jesuit, stood behind Martin Luther King at the famous 'I have a dream speech'. He also was directly and secretly commissioned by Pope Pius XI to write an enc…
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June 24 Billy Grahams Last Crusade
Season 6 Episode 24
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Said to have preached the Gospel before more people that anyone in history, We look at the life of Billy Graham as we remember his last crusade that started today. Criticised by all sid…
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June 23 Walter Ciszek, with God in Russia
Season 6 Episode 23
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The story of a Polish/American Jesuit who endured 5 years in Moscow's notorious Lubyanka prison and then 15 years in the Siberian Gulags before being exchanged in a prisoner swap
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June 22 Kateri - The first Native American Saint
Season 6 Episode 22
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This is the story of Kateri Takakwitha the first American Indian to be declared a saint
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June 21 The Christian Inventor who wanted to feed the world
Season 6 Episode 21
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Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical reaper, it changed the world.
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June 20 The Priest who created the Big Bang Theory
Season 6 Episode 20
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George Lemaitre started thinking about the origin of the universe in the trenches during WW1. The Belgian priest went on to become an expert on Einstein's theory of relativity. applying…
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