Terese of Liseux is one of the most popular saints in the church - even though she died relatively unknown at 24.  Her 'Little Way' to Holiness was made famous through her autobiography  The Story of a Soul. Her modesty and 'littlenes...

Alberto Methol Ferrer is one of the most influential thinkers you have never heard of.  He was a great friend of the current pope, and used to cross the Rio Grande from Uruguay to see him regularly in Buenos Aires. His thoughts on theology...

St Peters Basilica is world famous and today it was consecrated in 1626

Two remarkable stones tell us a lot of the beginning of Denmark as a nation state, brought together by Harald Bluetooth - the first Christian King.  He united the feuding tribes which is why Bluetooth technology was named after him, unitin...

The Bishop of Lincoln, a French aristocrat called Hugh was much loved for standing up to corrupt kings, and for his holiness. He was declared a saint twenty years after his death 

One of the most consequential documents of Vatican 2 is also one of the shortest - Dei Verbum which deals with Divine Revelation 

The Coventry Blitz on Nov 14 1940 was the most devestating in Britain during WW2. Its bombed out cathedral is now world famous

The Marine Biologist - Sir Alister Hardy - set up a centre to study religious experience. He claimed that 50% of people in the UK had a religious experience and saw this as an evolutionary response to some dimension of reality

King Canute the King of Denmark, Norway and England built up an Empire of the North Sea. He also put a lot of money back into rebuilding churches and monasteries. Why did he attempt to turn back the sea? 

Today we remember how the General Synod voted to accept women priests in 1992.

The Council of Trent is most famous for its counter reformation decrees - but perhaps of most significance in shaping civilisations is its decree 'Tametsi' which tried to counteract clandestine marriage

We remember the death of William Morfill, the first professor of Russian and Slavonic languages in Britain, He translated the non-canonical Book of Enoch which had been preserved in Bulgarian  texts and describes how Satan was cast out of ...

The Sagrada Familia was Anthony Gaudi's magnus opus and attracts more than 3 million visitors every year to  Barcelona.  Today we remember how Pope Benedict consecrated the unfinished basilica - and opened it to the public to worship ...

George Williams inspired by the ideals of Muscular Christianity founded the YMCA to offer young men an alternative and healthy life to the urban malaise he saw in London, The movement spread around the world and invented basketball and volleyba...

Guy Fawkes was from York and to commemorate his failure to blow up the House of Lords a special light show was projected onto the beautiful and famous York Minster. Today we look at both the story of Guy Fawkes and the beautiful York Cathedral ...

The Lord of the Rings has been hugely successful as a book and a film series,  all over the world, We look at the theology that underpins J R R Tolkien's Middle- Earth that has been popular all over the world 

Coventry Cathedral was rebuilt after being bombed in WW2, with its shell left standing next to the new cathedral a symbol of Resurrection and Reconciliation.  It commissioned a War Requiem from Benjamin Britten which incorporated Wilfred O...

One of the most intriguing works of Christology is the Theology of Failure by John Navone. An edition was published today in 1974 and it has had a lasting influence on Pope Francis

After four years work - the Sistine Chapel was opened for public viewing  on all Saints Day.  Michelangelo's Ceilings is now seen as one of the greatest artistic achievements of all time - with more than three hundred figures. it show...

The understanding of justification by faith alone was the theological faultline at the heart of the reformation. Today almost 5oo years later a joint statement was released in agreement between Lutherans and Catholics 

The Slave Nat Turner believed that he was divinely inspired to lead an uprising of slaves in Virginia. He would be killed for his efforts 

Today we look at the story of St Regulus being shipwrecked in Scotland with relics of St Andrew. How he became the national saint and the story behind his saltire 

John XXIII was born into a simple farming family and was proud of his humble beginnings.  He Was mourned after his death as 'Il Papa Buono' and mas made Time Magazine Man of the year after his intervention in the Cuban Missile Crisis ...

Constantine was the first Roman Emperor to be baptised a Christian, This was an incredible turnaround after many  terrible persecutions of the Roman authorities, killing tens of thousands of  Christians. We look at the spiritual exper...