if we look at surveys in ireland, the association of catholic priests over the summer survey nearly 1a00 to the pope if they had a chance. 0ne say to the pope if they had a chance. one of the primary proposals was an equal role for women in the church. are we talking about ordination of women? ordination is a huge part of it. i know many ordained women in the church of ireland and the other christian churches. people have welcomed them. there is a strange thing that is said by those who are opposed to change. they say, look at the other christian churches. it hasn‘t changed them. but the point is not that women are better, but that to exclude half of the human race from the decision—making side of the church seems to me to be extraordinary. every organisation, the bbc included, is looking at how they achieve their objectives and with these days embrace the notion of diversity. and it is notjust diversity of gender, it is diversity of culture, of race and thinking. and all the organisations that have embraced diversity are much more enriched. so here we have an institution which doesn‘t s

this idea for a long time about the relationship between catholic social teaching and evangelical civic engagement, the national association of evangelicals has also taken this. i was part of a catholic evangelical dialogue on catholic social teaching several years ago at georgetown. so i think there are evangelicals who are pushing for a much more holistic pro-life kind of agenda tha but they are still in the minority because of the success of the playbook if you will. >> toward non-christians viewed? >> does believe that christianity should be privileged, non-christians command again i'm not endorsing, non-christians should certainly have freedom to worship in the wathe waythey want and so forthi think most of the defenders of the christian right want to restore america to a christian nation while the symbolism, christian walls that have certain views and so forth i don't think they thought very deeply about liberalism. there are a lot of evangelicals who are thinking about this, just to throw out some names. washington university st. louis law professor, those in the dutch reformed calvinist tradition have thought about th

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>> turning now to the sexual abuse controversy plaguing the catholic church and sparking calls for pope francis to resign. close associates ofmbittered by the allegations of an archbishop who claims pope francis knew in 2013 that cardinal mccarrick was a predator. but now they're questioning the timing of the archbishop's allegations. >> i do think that it was bad form on the part of an archbishop to write a letter like that. about the pope. without perhaps having actually consulted the pope beforehand. without actually having expressed his concerns to the pope beforehand. clearly, he took advantage of the pope being in that situation. which i think was mean-spirited. >> the head of the u.s. conference of bishops has requested an audience with the pope to discuss how to deal with the scandal. >>> the comedian louis ck is facing backlash for returning to the stage. he dropped by for a surprise performance at the comedy cellar. it was his first performance since admitting to inappropriate conduct. but some say it's too soon for a comeback. the club's owner says he was in a difficult position and says he cares about doing the r

catholic country. the law currently allows the procedure only in the case of rape or if the woman's life is endangered. now on bbc news, hardtalk‘s stephen sackur talks to associate of the democratic party, jaime harrison. welcome to hardtalk. i'm steven sackur. for good or ill, donald trump dominates the american political landscape. he seems to relish conflict because it keeps him firmly and forever centre stage. so with vital congressional mid—term elections looming this autumn, how should democrats respond? well, my guest is jaime harrison, associate chair of the democratic national committee. not so long ago, his party was predicting a mid—term wave that would sweep away republican control of congress. but are the democrats underestimating the power of trumpian politics? jaime harrison in columbia, south carolina, welcome to hardtalk. thank you stephen. thank you for having me. just a few months back, one of the most senior democrats in the senate, charles chuck schumer, said this, he said "i smell a wave coming." and it did seem at that point that the democrats were absolutely convinced that they were going to sweep away the republicans in congress. are you

catholic country. the law currently allows the procedure only in the case of rape or if the woman's life is endangered. now on bbc news, hardtalk‘s stephen sackur talks to associate

association center for the prosecution of child abuse. she later found at the national institute for training child abuse professionals. she has worked extensively to respond to sexual abuse committed by catholic church officials, first as the founding chair of the maryland province of the society of jesus review board, where she provided the catholic church the charter for the protection of young people and directed a review of the grand jury reports to identify .rganizational problems she has served as the deputy director of the criminal law division at the office of the judge advocate general, and was legal advisor for the sexual assault prevention training program. she has taught clout practice as an adjunct professor at george mason university, at the california western school of law in san diego. in 2006 she came to the department of justice, appointed by president george w. bush as a founding director of the office of justice programs office of sex offenders sentencing, monitoring, and branding, registering, and attracting, where she served until 2009, and lead the office this year. we are happy to have her leading the office of justice programs. she would be happy for me to tell you th

associated with some of those groups. i know, recently, he was -- a year ago francis released an apostolic exhortation abouth family lifet seemed to indicate a softer line towards divorced and remarri catholics, and vigano has been opposed to that, he joined groups tat had been oposed to that kind of teaching. he's also made apearances in recent months with groups that are, you know, very hard linedai t any kind of abort legislation or same-sex marriage legislation or those kind of things, those are al cultural issues of discussion in the catholic church. >> dennis coday of the naliona catholic reporter, thank you very much. >> glad to do it, thank you. >> yang: as we reported earlier, the u.n.'s top human rights body accused myanmar's military of "genocid intent" and "gross human rights violations" against the rohingya, a muslim minority in myanmar. myanmar's military launched their crackdown exactly a year ago.or asgn affairs correspondent nick schifrin reports, the u.n.s report cor top military generals to be investigated and prosecuted for crimes against humanity. sh schifrin: one year ago, along the myanmar-banglaorder, the myanmar military unleashed horror. chthe u.n. says soldiers t r

association. center for the prosecution of child abuse. and she later founded the national institute for training child abuse professionals. she has worked extensively to respond to sexual abuse committed by a catholic church officials, first as the founding chair of the maryland province of the society of review board of the u.s. conference of catholic bishops where she helped revise the catholic church's charter for the protection of young people. she directed a review of grand jury reports to identify organizational problems that led to child abuse. she has served as the deputy director of the criminal law division of the u.s. navy's office of the judge advocate general and was legal advisor for the sexual assault prevention training program, and she has also taught trial practice as anned a -- as an adjunct professor. in 2006, she came to the department of justice, was appointed by president george w. bush as the founding director of office of justice programs, office of sex offender sentencing monitoring apprehending, registering and tracking, where she served until the 2009 and returned to lead the office in january of this year. now we are happy to have her leading the office of justice progr