The Pearl of Great Price

Send us Fan Mail Paul Tillich became on of Protestantism's most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. His life and career had two parts in Germany and the America. Scarred by his experience of World War One he had to flee the country when Hitler came to power

Send us Fan Mail Hopkins has been described as the most influential Victorian Poet with his creative us of language and sprung rhythm.  A Jesuit priest - he had a lifelong struggle balance his poetic impulses with his religious ones

Send us Fan Mail Edward Schillebeeckx was a provocative and influential theologian. His book on Christology today lead him to be invited to Rome to answer some questions about what he was teaching about the resurrection

Send us Fan Mail Today in1984  the Polish priest Jerzy Popiełuszko was beaten to death by three Security Police officers.  He was a friend of Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement who overthrew the communists

Send us Fan Mail Caravaggio was one of the greatest artists of the European Renaissance. He also lead one of the wildest lives.  We look at how one of his paintings was stolen in Palermo. We also look at what motivated him and his turbulent life

Send us Fan Mail The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes in the world. We look at famous Christians who were awarded it , as well as who didn't and the speech given by the first nun to be awarded it - Mother Teresa

Send us Fan Mail John Polkinghorne believed that science and religion provided a binocular vision of the truth. He left a prestigious post in Physics and Cambridge University to become an Anglican priest

Send us Fan Mail The Gregorian calendar is now almost universally used. This is the story about how Pope Gregory promulgated it after some revisions were made of the Julian Calendar which slightly overestimated the solar orbit of planet Earth

Send us Fan Mail We remember how today the public where given access to this iconic statue of Christ overlooking Rio. With his arms stretched out the statue can be seen anywhere in the city of 7 million people by anyone, 

Send us Fan Mail Today in 1917 reports went around the world of a miracle of the Sun that was witnessed by a crowd of 50.000 in Portugal.  The 'miracle' had been predicted by three peasant children from Fatima who had been seeing a 'Lady of the Rosary' who had urged prayer in order to stop the First World War 

Send us Fan Mail The discussion between Karl Barth and the Polish Jesuit Erich Przywara about the analogy of being - mortal humanities relationship to God the immortal creator, has been one of the richest between Catholic and Protestant theologians in modern times 

Send us Fan Mail The Second ecumenical council of the Vatican was attended by between 2,100 and 2,300 bishops from all over the world,  at its different sessions that lasted 4 years. It was the biggest ever council and set the direction of the church in the modern world 

Send us Fan Mail 15 year old computer geek Carlo Acutis died of Luekemia in 2005 - he was beatified in 2020. Thousands of people visit his shrine in Assisi every day. Could he become the first millenial saint? 

Send us Fan Mail The man who ushered anatomy into the renaissance age after stagnating with 1300 years of Galen was Fr Gabrielle Fallopio.  He gave his name to the Fallopian tube , Fallopian Canal , and Fallopian ligament .

Send us Fan Mail Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania during the war, He had converted to Christianity for his first marriage - joining the Orthodox Church. He saved thousands of Jews by issuing them visas and this was only discovered in Japan when many turned up at his funeral 

Send us Fan Mail Gallup claimed that she was by far the most admired person of the century after polling, and she won numerous prizes including the Nobel Peace Prize. She attracted thousands of young people to help her - but she also attracted some fierce, and unrelenting critics for her uncompromising witness 

Send us Fan Mail Today we remember the death of Poet Laurete Alfred Lord Tennyson. HIs poem In Memoriam helped Queen Victoria as she dealt with the grief of the death of Prince Albert. We look at it how it deals with faith and doubt 

Send us Fan Mail Today after a terrible persecution with an assassinated Anglican archbishop and multiple murders of Catholics and Anglicans - Uganda installed a Christian government.  The Ugandan martyrs are now celebrated every year by millions in a national holiday 

Send us Fan Mail Rembrandt left over 500 paintings after he died, more than a third of them of the Bible. He lived in a time of great religious turmoil and didn't belong to any church - but fell in love with and studied the Bible. His life was like his paintings, dramatic, passionate and ultimately tragic

Send us Fan Mail The Zionist churches in Southern Africa account for 15 million Christians - the biggest group.  This is the story of the Scottish/Australian preacher who founded them in America before sending out missionaries 

Send us Fan Mail He did not submit to either the Nazis or the Communists in his beloved Hungary. For which he was imprisoned and tortured. He would die in exile in Vienna 

Send us Fan Mail The German priest, teacher and writer Romano Guardini has had a decisive influence on the last two popes. His book The Lord is a masterpiece in Christology and has been called a book with a great mission 

Send us Fan Mail George Tyrell, an Irish priest published two letters in the Times criticising the papal encyclical Pascendi, he was expelled from the Jesuits and excommunicated 

Send us Fan Mail The first Pope to be given the title great was Leo.  We tell the story why today 

Send us Fan Mail The Obelisk outside St Peters in Rome stood in Nero's Circus and witnessed the crucifixion of St Peter. This is the story of how it was moved there and what happened to Peter