The Pearl of Great Price
The Pearl of Great Price
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May 12 The Pope and Fatima's third secret
On a thanksgiving pilgrimage to Fatima Pope John Paul II was attacked by a ultra-conservative priest brandishing a bayonet. Why was the Pope there in the first place? What was he giving thanks for?
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May 11 Irish Monasticism
We look at the life of Comgall, his student Columbanus and the distinctive form of Christian Community that emerged in Ireland. We also look at how that had shaped the universal church.
May 10 Karl Barth
The greatest Protestant theologian of the 20th Century, today we look at the life and thought of Karl Barth
May 9 An Assassination tests a Popes Faith
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
May 8 Rebuilding in the ashes of a revolution, Jean Vianney
A story of the savage French Revolution - its attempt to de-Christianise France and how a humble priest rebuilt the spiritual lives of his parishioners after. Jean Vianney would become the patron saint of priests
