Send us a text 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 a text 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 a text 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 a text 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 a text 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 a text 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 a text 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 a text 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 a text 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 the curious story of her relationship with Pope Francis and the gifts she sends him.

Send us a text 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 a text St Peters Basilica is world famous and today it was consecrated in 1626

Send us a text 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.

Send us a text 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

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

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

Send us a text 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

Send us a text 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?

Send us a text Today we remember how the General Synod voted to accept women priests in 1992.

Send us a text 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

Send us a text 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 heaven