Rté - The Leap Of Faith

Fr. Joseph Loftus a Vincentian Priest served in China for 25 years. Irene Devitt is a niece of amateur filmmaker the late Fr Jack Delaney who made films of life in 1930s inner-city Dublin. We also hear from Kasandra O'Connell Head of the IFI and Dr Lorna Gold shares her concerns for the environment from the perspective of a person of faith.

On the Leap of Faith this week, Rabbi Julia Neuberger on Yom Kippur and the role of atonement in the Jewish Faith. Lisa Sharon Harper is in Ireland this weekend to address the Rubicon Conference and we talk with the biographer of Pope Francis, Austen Ivereigh

Father Dermot Mansfield, author of 'Heart Speaks to Heart: The Story of Blessed John Henry Newman', sheds light on this man’s remarkable life and legacy, as his canonisation takes place in Rome this Sunday 13th October.

Tom Holland talk's about his latest book Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind. We meet film maker James Creedon and hear the story of Sister Paschal (Jennie) O' Sullivan, who spent 75 years in Japan as a missionary nun. We'll hear of a novel idea for carbon credits at the Galway Jazz Festival that benefits St.Nicholas' Collegiate Church.

Miriam O’Regan founder of Fearless Women a conference on Oct 11/12 in the Helix in Dublin . We also meet Áine O’Neill and Colm Flynn presenters of Life and Soul.

We hear from Fr. Peter McVerry, founder of the McVerry Trust. The Reverend Brian Anderson is co-chair of the Irish Inter-Church Meeting and President of the Irish Council of Churches and Sister Jean Quinn is the founder of Sophia.