Four events of note
In a wide-ranging interview in the Irish News, former Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader John Bruton talks to Fr Chris Hayden about the Church-State relationship in Ireland, politics and conscience, constitutional nationalism and violence, and the liberalisation of abortion
Two events of note
Church of England invests in sports outreach in major drive to attract newcomers to church - Norwich diocese in plan to plant 10 new churches in five years - Priest hits out at 'appalling' altar gifts
Short reviews of big events
Official Ireland’s rigid approach to the Brexit backstop shows we are incapable of learning from our Celtic tiger mistakes, David Quinn writes in the Sunday Times
