About RTÉ Religious Programmes

St Patrick

Programmes You Can Believe In...

Throughout the year, RTÉ Religious Programmes seek to reflect the full diversity of religious practice and experience in Ireland, on radio and television. Through a mixture of outside broadcasts and Masses and Services from the RTÉ studios in Dublin, we aim to include Christian worship from different communities and denominations all over the country. We also hope to mark at least some of the significant festivals of other faiths and to reflect their place in today's Ireland.

We also broadcast a broad range of Factual output, including discussions, documentaries and interviews.

If you have comments on the site or would like to contact me. I'm the Editor of RTE Religious Programmes and can be reached at roger.childs@rte.ie or on +353 1 208 4586.

On Sunday 27th May, we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost live from Glenstal Benedictine Abbey, in County Limerick. Abbot Mark Patrick Hederman OSB will be the celebrant and Brother Martin Browne OSB, Headmaster of Glenstal Abbey School, will preach, in a broadcast that will be shared live with broadcasters in Holland, Belgium, France and Switzerland. NB: that Mass airs at the slightly earlier than usual time of 10.00am, on RTÉ One.

You can still watch last Sunday's service, with members of Cherith Athlone Baptist Church led by Pastor Dominic Montgomery, by clicking on the link below.

You can also access our Prelude Mass for the International Eucharistic Congress on 6th May, for which the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Charles J Brown was joined by the Palestrina Choir, the RTE Concert Orchestra and the staff and volunteers of the IEC2012.

Would You Believe? reached the end of its current run on Sunday 22nd April, with an uplifting film about TEEN SPIRIT, a Kerry-based initiative to get young people engaged in Christian faith through music. It's the vision of a group of teachers, who believe that they can use music to touch and inspire a generation raised on The X Factor and The Voice. Only they hope that what they have to offer is much more valuable than fame: Christian faith.

Four years after it began, the project has been a resounding success in Killarney, but the programme asked, can it work in Dublin? You can still watch that programme by clicking on the WYB? icon to the left and you can find out more about Teen Spirit from their own website: www.teenspirit.ie

On RTÉ Radio 1, Eileen Dunne continues to offer her own distinctive mix of discussions and features, every Friday night, at 10pm, on The God Slot. That, too, is available on catch-up via the RTÉ Radio Player or at http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thegodslot/

This week, following the Church of Ireland's recent disputes about same-sex relationships, Eileen hears from Bishop Harold Miller about whether it's possible for Christians with polarically opposite views on the subject to agree to differ.

If there are subjects you'd like Eileen to cover or stories you'd like to share, do, please email the producer, Gerry McArdle, at godslot@rte.ie or call him on +353 (0)1 208 2039.