Synopsis

AFTER COPENHAGEN - Mark Doud and Peter Doran assess the outcome of the UN's climate change summit
OH HAPPY DAY! - Mark McCleary meets the Belfast Community Gospel Choir
THE 100 WORD BIBLE - Jonny Griffiths explains how he summarised the entire bible in 100 pages
"AVATAR" - Mike Catto and Catherine Clinton find political parables in James Cameron's 3D epic
MURPHY REPORT - A RESIGNATION
Joe Little examines the case against four senior bishops implicated in the Murphy Report
MURPHY REPORT - WHAT NEXT? Fr. Joe Mullen and Garry O'Sullivan debate the implications of the continuing child abuse crisis in the Catholic Church
MURPHY REPORT - THE NORTH - Wallace
Thompson and Jude Collins disagree about the need for a Murphy-style report in Northern Ireland
HYDEBANK: A DEBTOR'S PRISON? Padraig Coyle
visits Hydebank Prison to meet the women put there for fine-defaulting
ORAL ROBERTS - David Harrell looks back on the life and work of a colourful evangelical leader
JEREMIAH MCGRATH - Fr. Michael Kilkenny explains the process of laicisation - now applied to a criminal clerial abuser
THE ATHEIST GUIDE TO CHRISTMAS - Ariane Sherine and John Holmes share a secret:atheists also put up Christmas trees
IRELAND'S HIGHEST COURT RULES ON LIFE -
Deirdre Madden analyses the Irish Supreme Court ruling that life begins at implantation