The Pearl of Great Price

Send us Fan Mail St John of the Cross is now famous for his Dark Night.  He believed that God was nothing and everything, this is the story of the Carmelite reformer and how he suffered

Send us Fan Mail Saint Lucy was one of the most popular saints in the early church and devotion to her still lasts in many parts of the world 

Send us Fan Mail Today was the day when an image was left miraculously on the Tilma of Juan Diego during Our Lady's second apparition to him on the hill of Guadalupe. We look at the image and the recent tests done on it 

Send us Fan Mail Charles H Townes won the Nobel Prize and the Templeton Prize combining his scientific genius with a deep faith.  He believed science and religion were converging, and he invented the laser and discovered the black hole at the centre of our Galaxy 

Send us Fan Mail We look at a revival in the Protestant Church in Northern Ireland in 1859 which has made Northern Ireland a lot more socially conservative than the rest of Britain 

Send us Fan Mail The appearance of a women to an Aztec Convert on a hilltop outside of Mexico City has had a huge impact on  Mexico as a country. Today we look at the story and the miraculous image which is still venerated widely 

Send us Fan Mail Today we remember the death of Carl Watzinger - the German archaeologist who made historic discoveries in the important biblical sites of Jericho and Capernaum

Send us Fan Mail The final document promulgated at Vatican 2 - Gaudium et Spes was the Church's document about engaging with the world - with the joys and hopes of humanity .  

Send us Fan Mail One of the great wonders of the Natural World - the Niagra falls between Canada and US was first sketched today by a Franciscan explorer

Send us Fan Mail Today we remember how a fire melted metal onto a large piece of linen that was reputed to be the burial cloth of Christ.  When an Italian photographer processed the first negative image of the cloth it wowed the world

Send us Fan Mail Dr Christian Barnaard performed the first heart transplant - we look at his missionary parents and his visit to Pope Paul VI

Send us Fan Mail St Pauls was one of the worlds first Anglican Cathedrals and one the most iconic. This is the story of how and when it was designed by Sir Christopher Wren 

Send us Fan Mail Today we remember how the hermit Charles de Foucault was assisinated by Tuareg bandits. His life and commitment has inspired many movements 

Send us Fan Mail Tomas Halik - A priest from the Czech Republic was ordained clandestinely under communism.  Now he has been given many awards including an honorary doctorate from Oxford for his many writings. 

Send us Fan Mail Milan's Cathedral - the biggest in Italy   is made up of pink-hued white marble. Canals were dug leading to the construction site, to bring the stone there, It has the most statues and spires in the world and houses the shrine of Charles Borromeo and a nail from the cross of Christ 

Send us Fan Mail This is the story of an assassination attempt on Pope Paul VI at Manila airport.  The 'Pilgrim Pope' who was the first to travel on an aeroplane and visit the Holy Land

Send us Fan Mail The incredible story of John Kitto - who although he became deaf after an accident as a teenager, he became an avid traveller and observer of Eastern Culture. He used what he had experienced and observed to created very popular Biblical Encyclopaedias 

Send us Fan Mail Pope Pius IX had to flee from Rome to escape Garibaldi and the Nationalists. He returned to become a prisoner of the Vatican and called Vatican I - the council that controversially defined infallibility

Send us Fan Mail One of the greatest composers of sacred music in English was Thomas Tallis.  His greatest work composed when he was  seventy years old is the 40 voice 'Spem in Alium'. A tapestry of voices about putting hope in God 

Send us Fan Mail The Templars are one of the most controversial orders in the history of the Church. Set up in poverty to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land their power and fortunes rose and fell with the success of the Crusades 

Send us Fan Mail Lumen Gentium was one of the most important documents of Vatican 2.  The Churches understanding of itself... the first time ever written, dealing with such themes as the universal call to holiness and salvation outside the church

Send us Fan Mail 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 'littleness' belies a spiritual powerhouse,  at 14 she defied protocol and held onto the Pope's legs at an audience. We also look at t...

Send us Fan Mail 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, renewal and atheism are looked at in todays podcast 

Send us Fan Mail St Peters Basilica is world famous and today it was consecrated in 1626

Send us Fan Mail 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, uniting digital devices.