Catholic News

For today's 'Catholic News' podcast we welcome a special guest into the studio - the Eparch of the newly-erected Syro-Malabar Eparchy of Great Britain, Mar Joseph Srampickal.

Bishop Alan Hopes, Bishop of East Anglia and Chair of our Liturgy Committee, joins us in the studio for an interview on a new document titled 'The Place of Silence' looking at moments of silence and contemplation in our worship.

Dr Harry Hagopian, our consultant on the Middle East North African region, travelled down to Bristol to speak to Bishop Declan Lang, Bishop of Clifton and Chair of our International Affairs department about life in the Holy Land and surrounding countries this Christmas.

This podcast focuses on Christian unity as Bishop Mark O'Toole, Catholic Bishop of Plymouth, joins his Anglican regional counterpart the Rt Revd Tim Thornton, Bishop of Truro, in Canterbury for the first leg of a pilgrimage of dialogue from Canterbury to Rome.

Cris Gangemi, one of the bishops' disability advisers, joins us for today's 'Catholic News' podcast to looking at the important conference 'Living Fully 2016: Exploring Disability, Theology, Practice and Culture'.

With the Jewish festival of Passover ending on 30 April, we're discussing the concept of mercy - and indeed that of a merciful God - with two Jewish rabbis from different confessions.

The UK's Independent Anti Slavery Commissioner gives us chapter and verse on the scale of the human trafficking problem in Edo State and explains his three-fold approach to tackling the problem.

Bishop Hlib Lonchyna, Eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Family of London, joins us in the studio to remind us of the painful human suffering that continues two years after the conflict started in Eastern Ukraine.

Today's podcast appropriately looks at the quality of mercy in Christianity and other religions. Gavin D'Costa, a Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Bristol, is in conversation with Katharina Smith-Müller our Interreligious Adviser here at the Bishops' Conference.

Sounds like the start of a rather poor joke - but it's not. This podcast offers an excellent template for local collaboration and mutual understanding between Catholics and Jews.