Shūsaku Endō (1923–1996), Japanese Roman Catholic novelist, authored Silence, adapted into a film in 2016.

In his spiritual autobiography, "Apologia pro Vita Sua", Saint John Henry Newman informs us: “When I was fifteen (in the autumn of 1816), a great change of thought took place in me.

Two tall men in a state room: one a Protestant minister in his prime, full of zeal, beloved by millions all over the world; the other quite elderly, of a quiet demeanor, subtle, careful, yet absolutely clear in his thought.

Out on the Kansas plains, he was just turning 21 when the Second Vatican Council promulgated its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium) and its Decree on the Pastoral Office of the Bishops in the Church (Christus Dominus). 

She is known today as the Mother Teresa of Pakistan.

The priest looked about this strange and beautiful land.

In "Churchill: Walking with Destiny," Andrew Roberts provides an appreciative and definitive biography of the man.

The doctor came into the hospital room, where a man not yet in his old age was getting dressed to go home. The doctor was a little nervous.

Three men and a boy were sitting round a fire. 

The whole life of Takashi Nagai was one of continual conversion and growth in wisdom and knowledge.