Joe Duffy and Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Sunday morning church worship is an expression of the Christian faith of Ireland. Quite rightly, then, it's an important aspect of RTÉ's Religious output. But it's only one aspect.

Religion in Ireland can also mean passionate religious or ethical arguments that are as likely to take place around kitchen and pub tables as in churches.

It can mean powerful stories of living faith - faith challenged, faith discovered or faith affirmed through experience.

And it can mean a vast array of activities that take place outside the church doors: grass-roots social projects and neighbourly acts; local traditions; rites of passage; history and heritage; music and arts; pilgrimages and prayers.

On the fourth Sunday of each month, all of these elements are now to be found on Joe Duffy's Spirit Level, a religious magazine series, at 11.15am, on RTÉ One.

With the publication due any day of the Dublin Archdiocese Report on clerical sexual abuse, Joe Duffy asks if the Irish Catholic Church can ever regain the trust of the Irish people or will this prove to be the final straw? Joining Joe in the studio are:

Fr Paddy McCafferty, himself a survivor of clerical sexual abuse and now a Dublin priest;

Senator Ivana Bacik, a former Catholic, who thinks that Irish people will now put their faith and trust elsewhere;

And Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Editor of The Irish Times, who explores the notion that clerical sexual abuse is an intrinsically Irish problem.

With the Catholic hierarchy dismissing clairvoyant, Joe Coleman's reports of apparitions at Knock by the Blessed Virgin , Joe Duffy asks one of the Pope’s theological advisors, Fr Tom Norris, a professor at Maynooth, how you can tell true visions from false ones. He's also joined by Aida Monsell, Director of the Knock Cenacolo Centre, who was in Knock on the day of the last so-called visions, but remains sceptical, despite her own devotion to Medjugorje.

With Christmas just five weeks away, you hear the complaint that it has been reduced to the Feast Of The Immaculate Consumption, so Joe asks consumer expert, Tina Leonard, for a guide to Christmas shopping with a clear conscience.

Alma Mater is an album of contemporary sacred music by three composers - a Catholic, an agnostic and a Muslim. What may well transform it into a best-seller, however, is the inclusion of the vocal talents of the artist formally known as Cardinal Ratzinger - Pope Benedict XVI. Geri Maye goes to Rome to find out more.

In case that's not to your tastes, there’s also music from Tommy Fleming and from the Ireland's Young Tenors - Dean Powers, Ross Scanlon and Peter O'Donohue.

If you can't watch the programme at 11.15am on 25th October, you can see it on www.rte.ie/player or on this website, along with previous episodes.