Everyday Ethics

Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV in May. 100 days later, is the shape of his papacy emerging? Audrey Carville hears from theologian Professor Anna Rowlands, Michael Kelly whose biography of Pope Leo was published just days after the conclave ended, and Emer McCarthy who works at the Vatican at the Commission for the Protection of Minors.

On the 80th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell's powerful political satire Animal Farm, we hear about the author's motivations and the power of his storytelling from Professor Jean Seaton, director of the Orwell Foundation.

Autonomous Weapons Systems can use artificial intelligence to identify, track and attack a target without any human intervention. They can also be used to defend. Many ethical questions surround their use, including whether they are really worse than a human giving the command to drop a bomb on a city? In the week that marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender at the end of World War II, Audrey Carville was joined by Professor Elke Schwarz (vice chairperson of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control), Bernd Stahl (Professor of Critical Research in Technology at the University of Nottingham who also served as a drone platoon commander in the German Army) and theologian Dr Elaine Storkey.

Fr. Carlos Ferrero on the bombing of his church and the starvation of the people of Gaza.

Rod Dreher on JD Vance's conversion to catholicism

A new technique creates IVF embryos with DNA from three people to stop a genetic disorder

This weekend marks the feast day of Benedict- a 6th century monk who had his own rule, which has survived down the centuries. That rule emphasises moderation, work and prayer.

Our journey this morning will begin in the Great Italian Monastery of Monte Cassino as we learn about the man himself and how he shaped monasticism in Western Europe.

The Benedictine Order still exists across Europe- and we will hear three tales-first from Father Pere Basile, a monk who glorifies God through making wine at the Papal Vineyard of Pope Clement V in Provence in France.

Then to Karol O’Connell, the Mother Superior at Kylemore Abbey in the West of Ireland leading an order of Benedictine Nuns who fled to Ireland after their monastery in Belgium was destroyed in the First World War.

We finish our journey with Abbot Mark Ephrem of Holy Cross Monastery in Rostrevor in County Down - the first new Monastery built here for 800 years.

A special programme remembering the London bombings 20 years on. Audrey talks to two men connected by the explosion at Edgeware Road Station.

David Gardner was reading the script of a Shakespeare play when the bomb went off. He lost a leg and the hearing in his left ear.

We also speak to two experts in trauma about the impact such an event can have on the human body and mind, and how people can be taught to deal with such trauma - Jo Dover is a specialist who works with victims of international terrorism and Sara Cook is a conflict response specialist.

Lamorna Ash talks about her conversion to Christianity.

Will Leitch explores the meaning of Sancutary Sunday.