Pilgrim perspectives from a worldwide church gathered in Sydney for World Youth Day: Social Justice strands with Cardinal Óscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga of the Honduras, former President of the Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM); female genital mutilation and women's rights faced by African pilgrims with Loreto Sr Ephigenia; and the restorationist strand of grand Roman liturgy.

Does science make belief in God obsolete? Cosmologist and mathematician Michal Heller's answer to this 'Big Question' this year won him the world's largest monetary prize given to an individual, the Templeton Prize. On Encounter Professor Heller explores 'creative tensions' between science and religion and talks about his research for a quantum gravity theory that might explain the Planck Epoch. And astronomer Guy Consolmagno SJ has things to say about meteorites, the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan, and beauty.

The popular advocate and water expert, John Archer, has turned his attention to the waters that flow through almost all the spiritual traditions of the world. From clouds and rivers and rainbows, to dew-drops and thunder, water is a universal and ancient motif in religion.

The Rev'd Albert McPherson has had two main callings in life, one to the Anglican Church and the other to the theatre. Late in life, he decided that he could fulfil his passion for the arts by being the chaplain to the Victorian Arts Centre in Melbourne, where he's eased the suffering and the jitters of many a star performer.

Featured on The Spirit of Things on June 1st and 3rd, the Bahai Gardens in Haifa, Israel has just been named a World Heritage Site by by UNESCO.
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On the occasion of Pope Benedict XVI’s World Youth Day visit, Compass explores the Catholic Church in a series of programs screened over 4 weeks.
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ABC TV's Four Corners' retrospective of its coverage of Islamist Terrorism between 2001 - 2004