* View from Earth this week will have "Sandra's Diary" reflecting on last week's Synod of the Church of England with changes there and here in other churches in Scotland.
* Andrew Barr will take us to meet three great characters whom he met in Dungeness in Kent.
* With the first annniversary mass for Cardinal o'Brien coming up later in the month, we have the second part of View from Earth about his Silver Jubilee as an archbishop and the visit of Pope Benedict to Scotland.
* In the news, Pope Francis concluded the four day meeting of a hundred and fifty bishops throughout the world to face the crisis of child sexual abouse in the church by standing firmly on the side of victims. Critics are looking for concrete action and zero tolerance to follow on the debates.
* The reflection is on Pope Francis' summit against child abuse and, in happier mode, a poem to mark the centenary of Craiglockhart as a centre of Catholic Education.
