RTÉ Podcast

Andrew Madden reacts to the film documentary 'Mea Maxima Culpa; Silence in the House of God'.

Jim Corkery SJ, Fr. Tom McCarthey OP, Anne Thurston, Abbot Mark Patrick Hederman with Fr. Timothy Radcliffe OP discuss our new Pope Francis.

Two religious sisters give their side of the Magdalene story to Claire McCormack + analysis from the Irish Catholic's Michael Kelly.

A group of children, age 6 to 12, from Kilconly Primary School in Ballybunion, Co. Kerry discuss the papal abdication and its aftermath.

Chris Lambert, our regular contact at The Tablet, talks about the ramifications of the resignation of Scotland’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien.

On Thursday, 14 February, Pope Emeritus Benedict spoke of the difference between what actually happened at Vatican 2 and how the media presented it. Former Head of News at RTE Des Fisher in a rare and exclusive interview begs to differ.

Children on papal resignation; Cardinal Keith O'Brien; Des Fisher on Vatican 2.

Here’s something that is not known by too many people; whoever occupies the chair of Peter is nominally the Bishop of Kilfenora and parish Priest of Liscannor, and the same will apply to his successor. Holding the fort for the Pope is Fr. Denis Crosbie, who reveals all to The God Slot.

In this era of recession, material poverty is all too familiar, and many agencies and religious organisations respond to this state of affairs, but what about spiritual poverty? Sr. Mary Threadgold tells us about the work of Sonas Spirituality.

Sunday night is Oscars night, and regular film correspondent and lecturer on theology and ethics at Galway/Mayo IT Barry McMillan casts his offbeat eye on two of the contenders, both of which deal, in their own way, with oppression and redemption, subjects of great interest to The God Slot; Les Miserables and Lincoln.