god gave to the church apostles, evangelists, and pastors and teachers whose job is to equip the saints for ministry. >> how did it feel to have your confession treated in that way? >> reporter: stephen ministers go through 50 hours of instruction and practice, learning to help care receivers express their feelings, to listen without judging, and how to bring faith and the bible into the conversation. >> can we pray? dear god, please give rene the absolute confidence of his forgiveness. >> reporter: they also study specific situations, like dealing with grief and divorce. but stephen ministers are not counselors, so they also learn when to call in professional help from a pastor or therapist. their work is supervised at the parish level, and if a care- giving relationship doesn't work out, which does happen sometimes, either party can be reassigned. good shepherd's senior pastor, david sloop, introduced the program here in 1987. >> it took a while for people to say, instead of "i need to speak to the pastor," to also say, "or can i have a stephen minister?" and that's a cultural shift,

what jesus and the apostle proclaimed, who was not a new ideology or a new religion in our modern, attenuated cents. they proclaimed that god had established the order in the midst of history, not perfectly, but truly. the church anticipates the form of the human race is it will be when it comes to maturity. she is the already of the new amenity that will perfected -- will be perfected in the last days -- the new humanity. conversion is the beginning of our resocialization and inculturation into the way of life practiced by the ecological community. modern christianity has lost sight of this vision. our churches are more likely to be clubs for religious people in communities of disciples striving to live all of life under god's kingship. for many modern christians, christians are dispensers of fire insurance in the mood brighteners. they are not nurturers of a way of life. they are not the source of the best way to act and think in all spheres of experience. the message of the gospel is assumed to be personal and private, not communal and public. many well-meaning christians believe the churc

will help us understand what's going on and suggest some very powerful arguments against disgust apostles in theory and in practice by showing how that emotion expresses a universal human discomfort with bodily reality. but then uses that discomfort to target and subordinate vulnerable minorities. and i use often parallels to woman-hating and the role played by disgust and the idea of contamination in american racism to make my case. now, disgust today has two opponents. each increasingly powerful in our social political and even legal life respect and sympathy. the idea of equal respect for persons surely a key concept throughout the history of american democracy combined with a high valuation of personal liberty suggests to many citizens that even when they don't think well of someone's intimate personal choices, they should give them space to make them so long they don't violate other people's rights. such a politics of equal respect and equal liberty has long been our norm in the area of religion. where we're just used to the idea that we must live on terms of equal respect with peopl

. >> the first reading is from the acts of the apostles.p ter 9 versus 1-20. >> reporter: but not to a catholic church. this is st. joseph episcopal church in sub urban denver. she said she made that decision because she believes the catholic hierarchy deliberately covered up the fact that priests were abusing children. >> i know i am not the only person who feels betrayed by the hierarchy . i am certainly not the only person who feels they can no longer attend mass. i would say that i feel like i'm in exile. that's exactly how i feel. it's very hard. because i love my church. >> reporter: over the weekend, pope benedict met with victims of abuse in malta. that, coupled with the recent vatican statement that priests who molest would be brought to justice, are just the latest developments in a months' long controversy over the pope's past role in sex-abuse cases. >> the holy father has met a group of persons who were sexually abused by members of the clergy. he was deeply moved by their stories and expressed his shame and sorrow. >> reporter

teams funnel hundreds of billions of taxpayer funds to the bank prodded on by the goldman sachs apostleseir administerings, on the pretense of stabilizing the economy, how are we supposed to take this lightweight action seriously? andy, you want to try that one? >> should there be criminal charges? >> you can -- they could file criminal charges. i think they'd have a difficult time succeeding. you see people talking already that even the civil suit is by to means a slam dunk. i mean, i think one thing they should have considered, and i know this may not be tenable, but was a temporary tax on these wall street firms that got bailouts because, you know, they're supposed to make a lot of money. they did get help from the federal government. so if they made a lot of money while they got help, they should return more to the government. >> to me, it's simple, actually. >> frank rich. >> very good, fight on goldman sachs. no one at lehman brothers has yet been held liable for its enronesque book keeping deceit is appalling. that we still haven't seen the e-mails that would illuminate aig's mach