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Apr 9 Encyclicals
Season 4 Episode 9
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Today in 475 the Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus releases an Enkyklikon, a circular letter to the bishops of his empire about the Monophysite…
3 years ago
Feb 22 Ash Wednesday
Season 2 Episode 17
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Today's pod looks at how billions of Christians enter Lent today on Ash Wednesday. Where did this practice come from, what does it mean an…
3 years ago
Feb 21 Pancake Tuesday and Carnival
Season 2 Episode 16
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What is the link between Mardi Gras, Carnival and Pancake Tuesday? Find out in today's pod.
3 years ago
Nov 30 St John the Unfinished and Duke Wellington
Season 11 Episode 30
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The Episcopal Cathedral in New York is nicknamed St John the Unfinished. Its size and construction has created an acoustic which has lea…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nov 29 Dorothy Day - A unique radical
Season 11 Episode 29
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When Francis became the first pope to address a joint meeting of Congress, Dorothy Day was one of four Americans mentioned by the Pope in …
3 years, 3 months ago
June 4 Silencing Prayer in Schools
Season 6 Episode 4
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We look at the First Amendment of the Constitution of the USA - and its double function of protecting the state from religious control and…
3 years, 9 months ago
May 4 Dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal
Season 5 Episode 4
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Today Alexander VI, the infamous Borgia Pope, issued a papal bull which drew up a line of demarcation dividing the New World between Spain…
3 years, 10 months ago
May 3 The Sign of the Beast
Season 5 Episode 3
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Today we look at the birth of Uriah Smith and Seventh Day Adventism. Emerging out of a failed prophecy of the End of the World we look at…
3 years, 10 months ago
May 2 Fr Kircher, the Plague and Quarantine
Season 5 Episode 2
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The last polymath of the renaissance era was Fr Antanasius Kircher SJ. Among his many accomplishments he was the first to look at the bloo…
3 years, 10 months ago
May 1 Death of David Livingstone
Season 5 Episode 1
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Perhaps the Westerner who did more to shape thinking about Africa then anyone else. Both a father of European Colonialism and a forerunner…
3 years, 10 months ago