RTÉ - Sunday Spirit

Michael's guests include Monsignor Hugh Connolly, President of Maynooth University, Dr John Cullen talks about his research in the use of the phrase pagan in Irish media and Maan Kantar talk about the healing power of sound and meditation.

On the Sunday Spirit this morning - the work of the Dublin Interfaith Forum, a preview of Rubicon 2016 and that "religion" question on the Census form.

We review Laudato' Si, the Pope's second encyclical with Catherine Devitt, and Fr. Dermot Lane, continues our theme as he talks about his paper on contemporary Catholic Education.

A special edition of the programme which explores a selection of some of the images of Christ in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.

Fr.Gabriel Daly talks about Church reform, Sr.Joan Roddy on life in direct provision facilities and a preview of the film Risen with Dr.David Shepherd of the Loyola Institute.

The spirituality found in the writing of Virginia Woolf, an update on the refugees on the island of Kos and the steps towards the beatification of Father John Sullivan.

Today, a new course in Theology that focuses on Spirituality and we'll hear about plans for an event next week where young people can explore faith and life - Faith Fest 2016.

This morning the story of Dag Hammarskjöld, the UN Secretary General who died in 1961, his biographer Dr.Roger Lipsey talks about the spirituality that guided this Nobel Prize winner. And we hear the story behind the Book of Kells, described by James Joyce as "the most purely Irish thing we have"

Three women tell three different stories of faith and spirituality, for Catherine McCann it was a solo trip to India at the age of 80, for Bronagh Catibušic travelling to Croatia to help refugees gave her new insight and for Rosin Fitzpatrick a near death experience became the catalyst to change her life.

On this mornings programme the story of one woman's reparations for the campaigns of Oliver Cromwell and new research on Islamophobia in Ireland.