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May 11 Irish Monasticism
Season 5 Episode 11
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We look at the life of Comgall, his student Columbanus and the distinctive form of Christian Community that emerged in Ireland. We a…
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May 10 Karl Barth
Season 5 Episode 10
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The greatest Protestant theologian of the 20th Century, today we look at the life and thought of Karl Barth
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May 9 An Assassination tests a Popes Faith
Season 5 Episode 9
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Today we remember the killing of Aldo Moro, former prime minister of Italy and how it tested the faith of an old friend Pope Paul VI
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May 8 Rebuilding in the ashes of a revolution, Jean Vianney
Season 5 Episode 8
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A story of the savage French Revolution - its attempt to de-Christianise France and how a humble priest rebuilt the spiritual lives o…
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May 7 John Paul II in Romania & the Orthodox
Season 5 Episode 7
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At the turn of the Millennium the first Slavic Pope, John Paul II made bug steps towards reconciliation with the Orthodox Church. Thi…
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May 5 Scopes Trial and Teaching Evolution
Season 5 Episode 5
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Today we look at infamous Scopes Monkey Trial and the attempt to overthrow the Butler Act which prohibited teaching evolution in scho…
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May 6 Ghent Altarpiece
Season 5 Episode 6
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Its been described as the most stolen piece of art, the first great oil painting of the Northern Renaissance. A complex multi-panelle…
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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 …
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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 lo…
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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…
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