. >> no one in the catholic church hired me as a spokesperson, nor would they. i'm sure i'm not the pope's favorite catholic, nor is he mine. >> reporter: karr grew up amid the hardscrabble oil fields of east texas. her father drank himself to death. her mother was married seven times. >> i'm somebody who really does feel like i was snatched out of the fire and found something in myself that's luminous and gives me ballast. >> reporter: the road to faith was a long, hard climb for someone who once described herself as an "undiluted agnostic." by her mid-30s karr's life had begun to unravel. her marriage was failing. she drank heavily, wrecked the family car, was hospitalized for an emotional breakdown. in desperation, she took a friend's advice and reluctantly began to pray. >> i would kind of bounce on my knees, and i would say, "higher power, please keep me sober today," whatever they told me to say, and then at night i would say, "thank you for keeping me sober today," and then i started to express myself, which was often, you know, with obscene gestures, doub

we are speaking with father vito core own, a new religious order in the roman catholic church. and marta would slap my hand if i did not ask you about the fact that you can celebrate in not only the roman rite, but in other rites. >> yes. >> so what other rites are they? >> well first of all marta sang at my first mass. >> he's wonderful. >> so thank you, marta. so i do the devine lit erathy at our lady of fatima on the first saturday of each month. >> and that's in richmond. >> yes. and then also i help out with father johned inel at our lady of lebanon. >> and we have a photo of you. and what is happening here? >> this is devine lit erathy when the monks of mt. taber came down to visit us. they come on retreat once a year. and so they were down. and we had wonderful devine lit erathy, father joseph was the main sell brandt -- celebrant and it was great. but it's a sign of our prayers rising up to god. >> it's a great thing. i love it. and of course when i was a kid, we used to have a solemn ceremonies team. so when i was 12, i think there was always painting. >> that still ha

this was such a crisis in the catholic church that, in a way, we don't want to get over it too easily. this needs to haunt us. >> safer: defending and celebrating the church is his life's work, and the work isn't exclusive to new york. we caught up with him in rome, where he was on official business for the vatican. do you get any kind of special feeling when you're here, or is it just simply a visit to world headquarters? >> dolan: no, there's always a... it's always like coming home. >> safer: dolan took us to his old haunt-- the north american college, the american seminary that trains the best and the brightest. >> oh, sure... >> safer: dolan says it is essential that these men are fully prepared for what he calls a "happy, healthy, celibate priesthood." but aren't you losing some really good people that way? >> dolan: i don't think there's any denying it, morley, that perhaps if the church dropped its obligation of celibacy, there might be... there would be more candidates right away. >> safer: an awful lot of... of practicing catholics feel that the degree of abuse that is going

the right sinus medicine for the real problem. >> couric: the catholic church sex abuse scandal is not going away. in philadelphia, a man who says he was molested as a child sued the archdiocese today and elaine quijano reports that, for the first time, a high-ranking american church official is facing criminal charges. >> reporter: phil gaughan can't bring himself to talk about in the detail but says when he was a teenager, he was sexually abused by a catholic priest. >> nobody should have to deal with what i dealt with for 15 years, the way i felt. no child should ever have to go through it. >> reporter: after years of silence, gaughan is publicly filing suit against top officials in the philadelphia archdiocese. one of those named in his civil lawsuit is monsignor william lynn. lynn is already facing charges in a separate criminal case. for 12 years, lynn was in charge of recommending work assignments for priests in the philadelphia archdiocese. the district attorney believes lynn knowingly recommended abusive priests be reassigned without ever warning the parishes. >> they did, in

the catholic church is having these problems.transixteen create that reality. >> i am not a time but am catholic. i grew up with a lot of italians, and am dating one. [inaudible] >> so i'll have to pass on the italian thing. i do think though that in terms of the diversity calculus inside the newsroom, the times has not followed through on that. it doesn't have its representative italian reporters and editors in the same way that it has its representatives african-american or latino. it's not part of a mix. i think they love the white ethnics into, you know, one big mess. the catholic thing, i won't go as far as bill donohue and say that bill donohue you is the president or chairman -- executive director of the catholic league thinks the time is a deeply bigoted newspaper against catholics. i will not go as far as archbishop dolan saying that, but i will say that the times often seems distant from realities of catholicism. right after i published the news, the second wave of the church sex scandal broke, and i was unrated and tv

we have the catholic church with a seat in cairo. and we have a number of smaller evangelical churches. there was a small presence vulnerable community there. >> as this small vulnerable community had the freedom, the room to flourish in the society? >> of course there is restrictions. you can't worship or proselytize. there was no overt persecution. >> was gadhafi good for the christian community in libya? >> i wouldn't say he was good. it is a question of [laughter] which is the worst of worst evils, i think. certainly, gadhafi kept back the muslim brotherhood who want today take over. we have the libyan islamic fighting group. also who wants to more radical islam in libya. many of them try today overthrow gadhafi because of his relationship with the west. for christians there was relative peace. although there wasn't complete freedom. >> i want to get your opinion about the so-called rebel groups r. they a friend or foe of the united states and those of us here in the west? >> that is a big question. number of coalitions. people de

. >> after the great crisis which had exploded between the catholic church and the jewish public opinion in the year 2009 when the pope decided to cancel the vacation of the bishops and one of these bishops -- the pope decided to continue the invocation of these sketches and one of these bishops was a noted anti-semite. -- of these bishops, and one of these bishops was a noted anti- semite. >> pope benedict says jesus himself was not a revolutionary, but used the power of knowledge to heal. it is a message the pontiff now hopes will be transmitted through the power of his riding. -- writing. >> scientists in britain and australia have been working on a way to find out how the kangaroos gets its balancounce. >> why run when you can hop? the kangaroo has intrigued scientists for decades. what has to articulate baffled experts is why such a large creature can do this without the impact of breaking its bones. researchers using motion capture technology have fited plastics and service -- have outfitted plastic sensors to the kangaroo to record its every ement. other marsupials like these wall

the catholic church who registered the parishioners. we usedd creative way to do it. we try to make it as transparent as possible and each election to be better than the last one. we have a country with so many challengeth t challenges. and the lack of capacity and institutions are charges that we work with the drc to overcome and to insure that these eligses a elections are better than the ones before. i guess we should go to your other question. here in the congress have addressed the issue on security and exchange regulatory process. and just to kind of briefly oversee on the conflict minerals. we are enhancing how to protect those areas in conflict. enhance regulation of the trade. strengthen regional efforts to monitor and protect civilians and promote responsible resources. as you know, it is perhaps one of the richest countries in the world. i want to give you a story we have been talking to other donors in other countries who are benefiting from the minerals and resources. the chinese. they told us that we found fascinating. there is more airable land in the c

both the catholic church and the u.s. congress condemned them for living in sin. but she and burton obtained divorces and their marriage was later called the romance of the century. they were married for ten headline-grabbing years and starred in 11 films together. their lovers quarrels on screen and off were legendary. >> i will marry you. >> i'd rather die. >> reporter: still, burton showered his wife with spectacular jewels, including the famous 33 carat diamond. she showed me her jewelry in 2002. >> he said, i want to get you that ring. would you like to try? >> reporter: i would love to try. well, thanks, a lot, elizabeth, the interview is over. let's go home. >> reporter: but no amount of jewelry would keep the marriage stable. the two divorced, only to marry again, but that didn't last, either. >> it was almost like everything was too much. we loved each other almost too much. it sounds silly. >> reporter: no, it doesn't. >> but it was so intense that it was almost abnormal. >> reporter: was he the love of your life? >> mike and richard were the loves of my

vatican city is the headquarters of the catholic church. it's also its own country.the way the biggest country is russia. >> think that's pretty cool? that's because it is -- literally! these teens are testing the chilly effects of liquid nitrogen at ex.i.t.e. camp. >> ex.i.t.e. is really about just that -- exciting girls, their interests that they already have, their aptitude in engineering, technology -- those kinds of stem discipline: science, technology, engineering, and math. >> ex.i.t.e. stands for exploring interests in technology and engineering. the camp was started by ibm in 1999. and today, the program hosts locations all over the world. teen kids news visited one of their base sites to check it out. >> so, what i want you to do -- you have your what state in here? >> liquid. >> what state is in here? >> solid. >> i am lucky enough that once a year i come down and uh -- from my poughkeepsie site and i teach the 8th grade girls a class called states of matter and we learn a bit about solids, liquids, and gas. it's a unique opportunity for them to get to see

blaming the whole people with the accusation of having killed god is wrong is already known in the catholic church. the holy father underlines it blaming responsibility for this on the leaders at the time. >> pope benedict who this week started the church's preparations for easter writes about the life and death of jesus. in a key passage, the pope says that jews were not responsible for the crucifixion of christ. instead it was the temple to blame, not jewish people as a whole. the pope has already visited the holy land to improve the sometimes strained relations with jews. his new book has been welcomed by jewish leaders. the pope also uses his book to speak out against religiously motivated violence aimed at christians and touches on other topical issues as well like the staying power of the world's dictators, asking whether the biggest dictators can rule because of what the pope calls ideological lies. pope benedict says jesus himself was not a revolutionary but used the power of love to heal. it's a message he hopes will now be transmitted through the power of his writing. duncan kennedy, bbc

at many catholic churches, parishioners got very upsetting news. elaine quijano went to one of them. >> reporter: as they left ash wednesday mass many parishioners in the st. isaac jogues in the philadelphia archdiocese was angry. they had just been told their pastor was placed on leave pending a sex abuse investigation. >> it's not right, and to think these holy men can do these outrageous things. >> reporter: father harris was one of 24 priests suspended nearly a month after a scathing report detailing allegations of child sex abuse by clergy and accuses top church officials like monsignor william lynn, of shielding abusive priests. lynn is the first senior u.s. church official ever to face criminal charges for allegedly covering up abuse. >> i think we need to pray for priests. it's very sad that an enemy comes into the church. >> reporter: the report recommended the church review 37 previously closed cases of priests suspected of abuse or inappropriate behavior with minors. the archdiocese suspended three priests almost immediately and yesterda

remind everyone what the facts were, these protesters were about a thousand feet away from this catholic church in rural maryland where palestine who was killed in iraq was being memorialized. and the father, albert snyder, who we saw in that earlier piece of tape said that these people by being at his son's funeral caused him emotional distress. he won a jury verdict about $5 million that was then reversed on free speech grounds by an appeals court. and then the supreme court affirmed that. but what justice alito said was, look, you're reading free speech protections too broadly. that this was a verbal assault and it does not hurt the public debate in america for this man to have been able to claim some damages. >> now, it wasn't reflected in this case because it was an 8-1 case, but in terms of number of cases that are very evenly balanced in the court, any time somebody -- there's a change in the composition of the court, people are watching closely. this is the time of year when people do tend to announce that they're going to leave. is there any expectations any of the sitting justices are

nation so just to show you how this works you know that the religious groups in europe it was the catholic church for a long time would come out and say ok we're in charge or the king is the warlords they were the government who held the rights and they then gave privileges to the people and to corporations actually to the groups you know you want to start a school you want to have whatever but basically it was it was the warlord kings or the pope so them all those are what if this is the historic form of governance government had the rights people had privileges but our founding fathers garwin from the greek model more than two thousand years earlier created democracy here in america and look this pyramid of rights and privileges upside down our phone founders knew that the best defense against our government being seized by were wards who would then declare themselves kings or by religious fanatics and try to impose a theocracy is to put all the rights and thus all the ultimate power in the hands of the people. as abraham lincoln called government of the people by the people for the people. so

reporter: well, katie, tomorrow, ash wednesday, is one of the most solemn days in the liturgy of the catholic church and tomorrow in 21 parish churches around the philadelphia archdiocese from the pulpit parishioners will learn that priests in their parish will be removed from their ministry temporarily, put on leave and will no longer be providing spiritual guidance to them in their parishes. katie? >> couric: walt hunter from philadelphia. walt, thanks very much. still ahead here on the "cbs evening news," the charlie sheen show. who's reaping the benefits of his online rants? but up next, federal agents allegedly allowed lethal weapons to reach mexican drug gangs and it may have gone on much longer than anyone knew. e. that's how it is with alzheimer's disease. she needs help from me. and her medication. the exelon patch -- it releases medication continuously for twenty-four hours. she uses one exelon patch daily for the treatment of mild to moderate alzheimer's symptoms. [ female announcer ] it cannot change the course of the disease. hospitalization and rarely death have been reported in patien

the catholic church who registered the parishioners. we usedd creative way to do it. we try to make it as transparent as possible and each election to be better than the last one. we have a country with so many challengeth t challenges. and the lack of capacity and institutions are charges that we work with the drc to overcome and to insure that these eligses a elections are better than the ones before. i guess we should go to your other question. here in the congress have addressed the issue on security and exchange regulatory process. and just to kind of briefly oversee on the conflict minerals. we are enhancing how to protect those areas in conflict. enhance regulation of the trade. strengthen regional efforts to monitor and protect civilians and promote responsible resources. as you know, it is perhaps one of the richest countries in the world. i want to give you a story we have been talking to other donors in other countries who are benefiting from the minerals and resources. the chinese. they told us that we found fascinating. there is more airable land in the c

i was a book keeper for a catholic church. say hey, i'm willing to get in the middle and roll up my sleeves because you have a problem with your bookkeeping. it's a little guy at the bottom that doesn't cost as much as the big guy at the top that sits in the back. attending meetings. and not doing a whole lot of much. and my backing is on the police department more than it is for a bunch of lawyers to think they're better than cops. excuse me. there's no police officer on the commission, just a bunch of lawyers. yoo-hoo. i want my protection. and i'm here to make noise to make sure my fellow san franciscans are protected. like i would like my protection. thank you so very much. and thank you my fellow -- this is the land. free, the brave, and the bold, the foreigners seem to have called it land of the free, oh, oh, free for the taking. not my house any time soon, thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. any further comment? hearing none, we call next item. >> emit number five is routine administrative business, 5-a., commissi

. >> i'm no preu -- i'm no more prepared to talk about the pedophelia going on in the catholic church. i think we need experts. >>> in wisconsin tonight. lawmakers passed a controversial bill that strips almost all collective bargaining rights from public employees. capital police forcibly removed protesters who had camped inside the rotunda. the demonstrators were furious that the state senator approved the bill without the 14 democrats who left the state to avoid having to vote. this afternoon, protesters tried to break into the assembly chambers where lawmakers also passed the bill. now it's up to the governor and he says he will sign that bill as soon as possible. >>> it's about reform. it's about making sure we can put people to work, we can save jobs, and alternately balance the budget in the way it protects the middle class here in wisconsin. >>> the white house also slammed the bill, the president's press secretary said mr. obama feels it's wrong to vilify public sector employees. >>> and stocks took a steep dive on wall street today. we saw stocks from china and spain. the do

the catholic church who registered the parishioners. we usedd creative way to do it. we try to make it as transparent as possible and each election to be better than the last one. we have a country with so many challengeth t challenges. and the lack of capacity and institutions are charges that we work with the drc to overcome and to insure that these eligses a elections are better than the ones before. i guess we should go to your other question. here in the congress have addressed the issue on security and exchange regulatory process. and just to kind of briefly oversee on the conflict minerals. we are enhancing how to protect those areas in conflict. enhance regulation of the trade. strengthen regional efforts to monitor and protect civilians and promote responsible resources. as you know, it is perhaps one of the richest countries in the world. i want to give you a story we have been talking to other donors in other countries who are benefiting from the minerals and resources. the chinese. they told us that we found fascinating. there is more airable land in the c

with regards to our project with the catholic church, we train justice leaders. the program is critical and very effective because we have to step back and look at the context. we are talking about a country there is no rule of law and the justice system is in shambles, but there is nothing but traditional leadership in justice. so the fact of the matter is, we are working in communities where the view of justice still is embedded in cultural ideas that are attached to the stigma, how to overcome the stigma and reduce stigma. what i mean by that is a girl that is perhaps as young as 14 years old, in order to avoid that stigma, she is forced to marry her rapeist and that is the traditional justice system. we have been working with hundreds of traditional justice leaders in order to work with them on making their policies, shall we say, more gender sensitive and more sensitive to the needs and protection of the women and girls. that's on the first point. and with regards to the micro credit financing, absolutely, absolutely critical. and i'm glad that you noted tha

the catholic church announced today it is exonerating jews for their role in the death of jesus christpplauding the move by pope benedict. the book reenacts jesus' final hours by examining each gospel account and comes to the conclusion that jews as a whole cannot be blamed for christ's death. >>> a new edition of the bible is raising a few eyebrows. some of the differences we will highlight here. holocaust replaced by burned offering to distance itself from the genocide in world war ii. cereal changed to grain. boot becomes the spoils of war and virgin changes to the young woman. 50 scholars and five bishops spent 17 years on the new bible. >>> as we continue tonight, losing weight the caveman way. coming up, red meat and veggies, are they really a good recipe for losing pounds? stay with us. back in a moment.  [ woman ] bathing suits. shorts. tank tops. [ female announcer ] grab a box of multigrain cheerios, get a code to a seven-day plan to get going on your summer weight loss. get the box, get the code, get started. that's ever happened to cinnamon. introducing cinnam

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. >> safer: the past decade has been devastating for the catholic church-- seemingly endless cases ofts, and bishops who turned a blind eye to it. and multi-billion-dollar payouts to victims, all of which led to a steady loss of the faithful. one man the american church hopes can change all that is timothy dolan-- for two years now, the archbishop of new york, the nation's most prominent pulpit. he's also been called the "american pope," after his election to head the u.s. conference of bishops. his mission, as he sees it, is to change a perception of the church that ranges from negative to irrelevant. he wants to see the old church made new-- zero tolerance of wayward priests, and an emphasis on what he calls that most pure and noble experience catholicism offers. to accomplish his mission, his main weapon seems to be that indefinable quality called charm. >> timothy dolan: make sure you pray for your bishop. come on in. off we go to work. >> safer: timothy dolan is hard to miss. this burly, overweight, cherubic irish-american charges through life like a holy bulldozer. >> dolan: hi,

i spent a lot of time on the altar at our catholic church. i was an altar boy. >> jimmy: oh, okay. knew how to do that, too. >> we'll do the hand shake after the show. >> jimmy: you have to ring the bells at the right time. >> that's right. and the proper way, which is this -- >> oh, man. you could catch hell, it will r literally, for screwing up the bells. you had to serve the wine and the holy water. in the catholic mass, the priest, part of the eucharist, he has this symbolic red wine and water. and he's supposed to mix the two, i forget the symbolism. >> jimmy: i think it's just cheaper if you cut it with some water. >> especially in the '70s, they were think out the wine. but the guy, he would always glug out the whole thing of red wine and then boop, just a splash of water. and that was -- that was when i became aware that i was in front of a congregation or audience of a few hundred people and so i started to -- i started to sort of evaluate, i'd crack the wine and sort of give a facial review of -- >> jimmy: the bouquet? >> this stuff has no bouquet. tinged with just a hint

, so there should not be a catholic church allows gay marriage. host: chris in alabama essentially says the same thing. guest: well, this goes back to, i think, the marriage lite that i was talking about. just to reiterate, there are certain avenues that others can pursue to get certain benefits like hospital visitations and other issues that have been brought. to the caller's statement, the opposition is not just on a religious ground, and it is not just about benefits. the homosexual community is not just about equality. it is about validation. they do not want to force the only on government, they want to enforce it on society. there is a group that created an app, where you can report if during a catholic mass you think the priest is talking against gay marriage, which is a tenant of the catholic church. it is obvious that it is not just benefits that are being pursued here. it is not just a government ok. they want validation from society at large, and are willing to tear down religion as a barrier. host: a vix, houston, texas. good morning -

. >> police released the video of reverend ignatius kury, of the holy ghost ukrainian catholic church in akron. the arrest is the priest's third for driving while intoxicated. >>> and actor charlie sheen says he is planning a trip to haiti. sheen says he and sean penn will travel to the caribbean nation. penn says sheen can do a lot of good in haiti. and meanwhile, in a twitter message, charlie sheen says one of his girlfriends, rachel, the adult movie star, has moved out of his home. sheen wrote, quote, update, sober valley lodge, rachel has left the building. we're sad. over it. applications now being accepted. >>> and finally, talk about hitting it big at the casino, listen to this. stanley chappiesky bet only 60 cents on a slot machine in california at a casino there. it paid off more than $733,000. >> that's a good return on an investment. >> how about that, huh? stanley says his wife needs new jewelry. congratulations to him. but this is a guy who once lost 20-straight hands of blackjack at a casino. so, a little maddening. >>> we won the lottery this morning. you want to know w

the priest will not be allowed to celebrate mass or wear collars until the catholic church completes its investigation. >>> a minnesota mail carrier has died after a porch she was standing on collapsed. the porch was built over what used to be an entrance to a cellar. police say she fell ten feet to the bottom of the porch and trapped underneath a four inch concrete slab. the beams had rotted causing them to give way. >>> time now 6:46. two oakland police officers are not face charges for shooting an unarmed man last year. d.a.'s office says the officers had reason to fear for their safety when they fired at 37- year-old derrick jones back in november. now the d.a.'s office found that jones repeatedly ignored police officers' commands to show his hands and that he reached for his waistband which may have indicated to the police officers he may have been reaching for a weapon. jones' mother says she is appalled by these findings. she's filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city of oakland. >>> the antioch city council unanimously approve add new contract with police o

the priests won't be allowed to celebrate mass or wear collars until the catholic church completes its investigation. >>> a minnesota mail carrier has died after a porch she was standing on just collapsed. that porch was built over what used to be the entrance to a cellar. police say she fell about 10 feet to the bottom of the porch then was trapped under a four inch thick concrete slab. police say the beams holding up the porch had rotted. and that caused them to just give away. >>> two oakland police officers will not face charges for shooting an unarmed man last year. the district attorney says the officers had reason to fear for their safety when they fired at 37-year-old derrick jones in november. the d.a.'s found that jones repeatedly ignored officers' commands to show his hands and that he reached for his waistband which may have indicated to officers he was actually reaching for a weapon. jones' mother says she's appalled by the findings. she's filed a $10 million wrongful death suit against the city. >>> time now 5:44. the antioch city council unanimously approved a new contra

his father selected the catholic church in their hometown of westminster, maryland as the site for the sons funeral and the funeral was posted in the papers. this was yet another instance in which the westboro baptist church from topeka kansas picketed and protested at a funeral. they had done this hundreds of times all over the country. their view seems to be that began a is overly tolerant of sin and that god kills american soldiers as they deserve it punishment. signs include, god hates the u.s. and thank god for 9/11, america is doomed. thank god for ieds. thank god for dead soldiers. god hates you and you are going to hell which was a sign that seemed most directed at lance corporal snyder. the family brought an action for various support liability claims including intentional affliction of emotional distress and prevailed in a jury verdict including an 8 million-dollar punitive damage judgment that was remitted to $2 million. the supreme court held that action was hard by the first amendment. the opinion by chief justice roberts. events as the court sense of sympathy for the fami

. >> consolidation of the industry into the hollywood studio system -- every -- the catholic church was finally able to enforce production codes. and set up a system which you're familiar with and many people in the audience are, where one man, joseph broken, had to company every single film before it was released, called prior restraint, and so illegal if it was the government system. and let me give you one example. warner brothers wanted to make a movie in the mid-30s about what thionates sunday were doing in germany. they were like, listen, this is bad. bad things are coming. joseph breen, who described his job as shoving ethics down the throats of the jews. the movie was never made. i don't know -- this is a form of censorship that should be intolerable, but one man can decide. >> this is the problem with the whole book. heroic individuals who rise out of nowhere. the recent breen did because states were going to enact codes of their own and they could create a patchwork of regulations. the studios work with him because it was an alternative to government censorship at the state le

really were on issues of public concern: homosexuality in the military, child abuse scandal in the catholic churche moral decay of the united states. >> warner: so deciding it was a publish concern was crucial to how the court ruled. >> absolutely. >> woodruff: it was an 8-1 decision and samuel alito dissending opinion. what did he say? >> he didn't see... he said this speech went far beyond matters of public concern. he called it a verbal assault on private persons. there was speech directed specifically to matthew snyder, the young marine who died here. and he felt that what the court was saying here was, in effect, allowing these protestors to continue a strategy by which they got publicity for their ideas while at the same time ensuring that there be additional emotional serious emotional injury on innocent victims. he did not see that the first amendment protected this demonstration. >> woodruff: marcia, how unusual is it for the justices writing the opinion to, as you say, go out of their way to say that they feel sympathy for the losing side in the case? >> well, i said it seemed from his t

. >>> this morning the catholic church is being asked to put a tighter watch on priests accused of childstation. those abused by priests say dozens of the accused priests in california are living in monitoring near day cares and schools. they are calling for police to track them like sex offenders. church officials say since they have been removed from active ministry the church has no oversight for former priests. >>> san francisco city leaders are trying to raise awareness about elder abuse. the new district attorney george kas gascone will be joined by advocates of the elderly to launch the new public service announcements this afternoon. more than 17,000 cases of abuse were reported in san francisco county in 2008. >>> 5:46 right now. today is election day for at least 3,000 people in the south bay. they are voting on a measure aimed to prevent overcrowding in the santa clara unified school district. the measure would levee an annual special tax of $19 on homes in select parts of the district. the money would help maintain neighborhood schools. the ballots must be received by 8:00 p.

with regards to our project where we -- with the catholic church, excuse me, we train transitional justice leaders. the program is critical and it's very effective because we have to step back for a moment and look at the context. we're talking about a country where there is no rule of law. the justice system is in shambles. so there is nothing but traditional leadership in justice. so the fact of the matter is, we're working in communities where the view of justice still is embedded in cultural ideas that are attached to the stigma. how to overcome the stigma or how to reduce stigma. and what i mean by that is, a girl that is perhaps as young as 14 years old in order to avoid that stigma, she's forced to marry her rapist. and that is the traditional justice system. so we've been working with hundreds and hundreds of justice leaders traditional justice leaders in order to work with them on making their policies shall we say more gender sensitive and more sensitive to the needs and protection of the women and girls. that's on the first point and with regards to the microcredit financing, ab

the catholic church has paid $166 million to settle a sex abuse lawsuit in the northwest. of a jesuit order called the oregon province for the society of jesus are accused of abusing hundreds of native-american and alaska-native children in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. >>> and finally, many a bracket was broken as yet another favorite fell in the ncaa men's basketball tournament. ohio state was upset by the kentucky wildcats. while cinderella team, vcu, took out florida state. the seminoles, in overtime. north carolina and kansas won their games and are headed into the elite eight in march madness. i don't follow the march madness that closely. i have to confess. >> so much fun. >> who is your team? >> i don't know. >> all right. we'll take north carolina. how about that? >> all right. >>> it's time, now, for the weather and steve pool, from our komo affiliate in seattle. steve? >> thanks, ron. i do have a bracket. and mine is trashed, as well. what are you going to do? all right. so, let's take a look around the nation. one of our areas of concern is down in the de

i'm an atheist but i was raised a catholic and i know that the catholic church has no objection to saying you don't want to be on a ventilator if you can't get better. that is not considered suicide. it's considered you don't have an obligation to have everything to keep your body alive as long as possible. but there's a particular kind of -- i was a -- very anti-individualistic religion, which says that everything is in content we'll have the right to make any decisions for ourselves. and i think that is where the opposition on the far right is coming to the whole idea of living wills. mainstream religions do not object to these things at all. any mainstream religions do object to suicide but that is a different thing. assisted suicide is a very different thing from saying i don't want extreme things done just to keep my heart artificially pumping when i'm never going to be meet again. >> host: you to say that suicide or assisted suicide can be a rational choice. you go on to make the point that in medicine, at least how it is practiced in this country, tends to give anybody reaches that

rights alex, and also farhana khera you for the become also pleased with the leading voices of the catholic church in america is here to testify, cardinal mccarrick testimony reminds us that we catholics also had our loyalty to america question. not just in the early days of our public but during the lifetime of many of us. my friend dick durbin refer to the irish and the italians and the lithuanians. i know exactly what he was saying. by irish ancestors faces when he first came even to vermont, now where the most tolerant states in the country. my father as a teenager faced a sign that said no irish need apply, or more directly, no catholics need apply. my italian grandparents in a small town, and a time communities were seen as different. like my mother and my uncle spoke a strange language. when they had mass, the priest would have to come to the back door and the curtains had to be drawn. vitiates had to be drawn. now, that would be inconceivable today. members of the senate of other states also opened their own experience, religious and ethnic bigotry can be easy to ignite, very difficult to

they were condemned by the catholic church. the u.s. congress condemned them.nd of life off camera. no one. >> and that was part of the fascination we had with her. >> we're still fascinated. >> yes, even in her death. you bring up richard burton. and she talked about how he and mike todd, telling you, the loves, plural, loves of her life. she was equally passionate about that. >> well, one doesn't know what would have happened with mike todd if that marriage had lasted because he was 25 years older. but the fascination with richard burton. the marriage, that he drank too much. then, they got divorced. and then, they got remarried. it's a passion that i think never ended. they couldn't make it together. they couldn't make it apart. >> and she was equally passionate about her friends. she was a devoted friend. michael jackson, they had a unique friendship. >> they did because she said neither one of them had a childhood. and they could relate to the fact that they were, in that sense, outsiders. she began to work when she was 9. and we all know about him. but al

we are becoming rules rather than a nation of law >> why don't they look at the catholic church with those boys being terrorized. if you think we are going back to the constitution, you can forget it. nobody passes rules but rulers. the first black president who was john handson passed the articles of separation so we don't go following these rules this is a nation of laws. it is a late nation who adheres to the cons collusion. i think we have moved for those various movements i believe that this hearing when we are allowing for freedom of expression or speech she's right. let's all of us -- i might say this. we are now relooking at the patriot act. one of the key corner stones is let us adhere to the fourth amendment. let's adhere so the people are not discrime nated against. in 2009 was a bear weather. less than 11 were involved with muslim americans. others were being engaged as well have a hearing that talks about all aspects it is not the case. most are ok with muslim hearings . >> i interpret it under our leer ship that we were abe to fund. i also believe americans are saying h