The Jewish community after Bondi - Tamir Aloni. Report: Hanukkah in Dublin. Daniel O’Connell documentary - Ruan Magan. Essay: McGregor’s Vatican wedding – Sandra McDonald. Cultivating calm at Christmas – Kathy Donaghy & Michael Harding.

Religious or multi faith schools – David Quinn and Jane Donnelly. Pope Leo’s favourite movies – Peter Admirand. Essay: What should we call Christmas? – Emily Hourican. Vatican votes against women deacons – Gina Menzies. Unmaking the Virgin Mary – Chine McDonald. Report - 50 years of the Alice Leahy Trust.

Colm Toibin on the making of the Virgin Mary. Frank McNally essay - Nativity play pandemonium. Maurice Cohen on Irish Jews' sense of identity and belonging. 15 Years of the Muslim Sisters of Éire - Soup kitchen report and Lorraine O'Connor and Aisha Ali interview. Colm Flynn on Pope Leo's first overseas trip.

In the week that Pope Leo began his first overseas trip to Turkey, Mary MacAleese assesses his first 200 days. Report: Irish baha'is. Ruhi Jahanpour, survivor of religious persecution. Paul Vallely on his book Live Aid: The Definitive 40 Year Story. Anne Gildea essay: The spirit of Advent meets the commercial countdown.

Church of England child abuse - Andrew Graystone. Parrott’s divine hat-trick – Ken Early. Report - Dublin’s new cathedral. St Laurence O’Toole - Philippa Byrne. Composing a mass - Michael Holohan. Singing in a sacred space – Ian Robertson essay.

Áine Lawlor's extended interview with Andrew Graystone, author of Bleeding for Jesus: John Smyth and the Cult of Irwerne Camps which will be published later this November.

Imam Ibrahim Michael Noonan, founder of Galway Mosque. Dr. Barry Cannon - far-right extremism. Report: Sacred relics. Historian Nikki Carter - Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. Michel-Yves Bolloré - does God exist? Essay: Prof Brendan Kelly

Threats to global religious freedom - Michael Kelly. Religion & politics: peace/conflict? – Rev. Dr. Gary Mason. Religions in the NEIC - Richard Carson & Sophie Maneva. Remembrance reflection – Richard Downes. Chaplains report – Siofra Mulqueen

An extended interview with Rev. Dr. Gary Mason from the second episode of 'Divine Sparks with Áine Lawlor' first broadcast on 07th November 2025.

On All Hallows’ Eve, Gen Z’s Catholic revival (Ellen Coyne, Sarah Ryan Purcell & PJ Cronin), Siofra Mulqueen report – Patron Saints. John Henry Newman’s ultimate accolade (Fr. Gary Chamberland). Modern paganism (Dr. Jenny Butler). Ghosts of Halloween past (Michael Harding).