while listening to this statement, the short speech by the bishop of dublin. very powerful words from the bishop of dublin. he has said some pretty strong stuff in advance of this visit, calling for a spring in the church which doesn‘t seek to hide the dark days. and we heard the applause from the crowd when we heard that. spontaneous applause. encouraging words. archbishop martin has been one of the key people in trying to bring the church in recognising the reality of what it needs to face up to in ireland. 0k, thank you very much. we willjust pull away from this for the moment, but very interesting words, calling

while listening to this statement, the short speech by the bishop of dublin. bishop of dublin. he has said some pretty strong stuff in advance of this visit, calling for a spring in the church which doesn‘t seek to hide the dark days. and we heard the applause from the crowd when we heard that. spontaneous applause. encouraging words. archbishop martin has been one of the key people in trying to bring the church in recognising the reality of what it needs to face up to in ireland. 0k, thank you very much. we willjust pull away from this for the moment, but very interesting words, calling for a spring and irish church. and there was spontaneous applause from there was spontaneous applause from the crowds when he said those words. the pope will now continue with this mass here in phoenix park in dublin. i neither was there in phoenix park. we will be back with her a little later for the full service. tributes are being paid to one of america‘s most respected politicians, john mccain, who has died at the age of 81. the vietnam war hero — who was defeated by barac

the bishop of dublin talking about a new spring. s up to pope francis and the hierarchy to deliver that now. it is. a partnership, the state also has a lot of work to do to bring about reconciliation and healing because the state was complicit in a lot of what went on here in the past. i think the prime minister called for a new government and it takes two to make the government. the state and the church must find a new way of working together, no dominates on either side. in order to heal the wounds of the past and to bring it this into the future. let's had across the city of dublin tojulie who was at the garden of remembrance we re who was at the garden of remembrance were demonstrations have been taking place by survivors of abuse at the hands of the catholic church. julie, i wonder have any of the words that have been said here filtered through to you there? well, not much is filtering through here. it is very noisy at the moment. i can tell you that the crowds have really grown in the last hour. when we last spoke, several hund

because at the end of the mass we heard first from the bishop of dublin, the host city, who talked offor a new spring in irish catholicism. do not try to ignore the darker moments of recent history in the catholic church here but which was nonetheless a new spring in the gathered crowd burst into spontaneous applause when he said that. and then pope francis himself, speaking in his native spanish, called for forgiveness for all the abuses that had been suffered in various ways by the people of ireland. translation: week ask forgiveness for the abuses in ireland, abuses of power, of conscious and sexual abuses perpetrated by members with relative responsibility in the church. in a special way we ask pardon for all the abuses committed in various times of institutions run by male orfemale in various times of institutions run by male or female religions and the church. we ask for forgiveness that so church. we ask for forgiveness that so many young and women church. we ask for forgiveness that so many young and women were church. we ask for forgiveness that so many young and women were s

background there to the left of the background there to the left of the pope on your screen was the bishop of dublinisit has been calling forjust that for the church to do more and to be seen to do more. to respond to those calls from victims of abuse. for greater action from the church. some catholics argue that the church has already adopted pretty stringent safeguarding policies, but there are calls for more senior clerics and others to be defrocked. for the church to disassociate itself in many ways from individuals who have abused or covered up abuse. so an official welcome here in the park called after the archbishop of normal idiocy for major sporting events and visit concerts. a celebration of a different kind here this evening, it has a capacity of just over 82,000 and it's almost at that this evening. why don't we just listed in a little to this welcome for pope frances? the joy of love for pope frances? the joy of love for all of us. for the past three days we have reflected on, we have exchanged experiences and gained new insights on how the family is the expression of the love of god in

checking one or does my details with the bishop of dublin. but i think he is about ready to begin. this historic broker feature on saint mary's. test historic probe cathedral. in looking at you, i wonder it is not true what people say about young people not wanting to get married. thank you. thank you. getting married and sharing one's life is a wonderful thing. there is a saying in spanish which goes, pain is shared in two is like half ofa pain. pain is shared in two is like half of a pain. joy, when lived in two is a m of a pain. joy, when lived in two is ajoy and a of a pain. joy, when lived in two is a joy and a half. it is multiplied and this is the path and the road of marriage. how much loved has been expressed and how many graces have been received in this holy place? i wish to thank our bishop martin for his very cordial welcome. and i am especially happy to be with all of you, engaged couples and married couples at different stages on the journey of sacramental love. and it is wonderful to have heard that music and the music of the children that cried. because that is hop

here, it was an incredibly warm and welcoming response to the words they heard first from the bishop of dublina new spring in the church in ireland in one which did not seek to forget the scandals that we have heard about in the last few decades but a new spring nonetheless. and then pope francis speaking in his native spanish parade for forgiveness for abuses carried out on all levels, he talked about the sexual abuse of children and of course the treatment of unmarried mothers and mother and baby homes. the forced adoptions of those babies and so on. that was mapped as i say with a very warm response from the people here. and if we think about what he has done over the last 36 hours in terms of his public appearances and indeed the meeting with eight survivors of abuse, what people will want to see now in the words of the irish prime minister is whether he will follow up minister is whether he will follow up those words with actions. that is exactly what the irish prime minister called for yesterday when he spoke alongside pope francis in dublin castle. whether there is a new spring, the new

serious doubts over the leadership of the media called the bishops among confused of protecting predatory priests pope francis has been telling our state. section at dublin costal that he shares the shame and pain of the judge's failure to tackle abuse in that he joining us now from dublin mark vincent tate lee who was himself abused by catholic priests and now advocates for abuse survivors mark many thanks for talking to us what can you tell us perhaps first of all about your own experience and how it affected your faith. i was abused in a private school in the sixty nine three two months in seventy three by two priests one the end of my junior school years and then one again beginning one senior school years. both priests on there what knowledge that they're using at the school they didn't know about my abuse i didn't report it but they were reported for others who they had abused and they were transferred from the

have raised serious doubts over the leadership of senior cardinals and bishops who are accused of protecting predatory priests he has told an audience of dublin castle but he shares the shame and pain of the church's failure to tackle abuse from both who could be going on should i cannot fail to acknowledge the grapes. scandal caused in ireland. by the abuse of young people by members of the church were given responsibility for their protection and education it is. the fundamental video of the failure of church authorities bishops religious leaders priests and others to adequately address these repugnant crimes with he has rightly led to outrage them in sushi and it remains a source of pain and shame for the catholic community. but. i share in feeling that pain and shame and evil with the sentiment. well to talk more about the pope's visit to ireland i'm joined in studio by dealings religious affairs correspondent martin so martin we just heard some emotional words from the pope and yet many victims say they're looking for more than just words so how much do you think the pope's visit can actually help the vatican turn a corner on this issue

have raised serious doubts over the leadership of senior cardinals and bishops who are accused of protecting predatory priests francis told an audience of dublin castle that he shares the shame and pain of the church's failure to tackle abuse. well for a closer look at the to dublin i'm joined in the studio now by a reporter at william. so william there's been quite a great quite a lot of criticism against the pope especially in connection with the issue of clerical abuse what have the pope's critics in ireland been saying now especially online there they're saying no they're saying nope there's actually a hashtag called say nope to the pope which sounds funny but of course is deadly serious that many are using to discuss their outrage at the catholic church and the pope's visit you can see an irish rugby writer he put it very bluntly in this tweet he said i wish every weekend could be ireland winning the grand slam on st patrick's day and twickenham which is a major rugby stadium in england instead this weekend we have to host the leader of the world's largest pedophile ring hash tag say no to the pope definitely not beating around the bush w

of people to dublin. you can see assembled bishops, cardinals and others, also simon covney with his family. l be presenting flowers to pope francis as he arrives. let's look at some of the morning papers, this is the irish independent. the eyes of the world on the reaction to the papal visit. eyes of the world on the reaction to the pa pal visit. an eyes of the world on the reaction to the papal visit. an interesting line saying that the papal visit is expected to set the global agenda on how the catholic church tackles the dark legacy of sex abuse. arguably the dominant issue of this visit, both the abuse of children by priests, the cover—up of that abuse with priests being moved around parishes and indeed between countries, allowing abuse to continue, and the treatment of children and mothers in catholic run institutions. if we look at the irish times, pope francis visit expected to draw crowds of 600,000, but they are saying the pontiff is not planning to announce new measures to tackle clerical abuse, which is something that survivors of abuse and many others very much want the pope to t

of it to a close. he will make a further speech to irish bishops before he leaves dublin to return to rome. been a packed agenda in terms of the public engagements he has carried out. and of course, amongst those engagements, the private meeting with eight survivors of abuse, clerical and institutional abuse here in ireland. joining me now to discuss her thoughts on the visit is a baroness. i know you where various hats in the different roles you carry out. let's talk first of all about the speech in shrine of knock earlier where the pope said he was praying for god's forgiveness for the open wounds of abuse. and if i canjust the open wounds of abuse. and if i can just refer to the speech as well, he said he was going to pursue truth and justice. now, well, he said he was going to pursue truth andjustice. now, he well, he said he was going to pursue truth and justice. now, he said these words before, but do they have a special significance here in ireland? i think of course they do. ireland? i think of course they do. ireland has suffered very much because of the child abuse sex scandals. i

bishop zubik, the bdiocese in pittsburgh. today, the first sunday mass after the release of the report, interesting to see if people here feel if that is enough. >> polo sandoval, thank you. >>> pope is traveling to dublin, ireland, later this week to attend catholic world meetings of families and we signed john allen there who is editor for "the boston globe" crux. a lot of survivors who say, john, the pope needs to step you as you just heard there. this is a grand jury report incriminating catholic priests of sexually abusing 1,000 children. more than 300 predator priests is how they were characterized. is the pope's ability to act as a moral authority dependent on

of the church joining together. very early on in his speech at dublin castle he talked about the child abuse crisis and talked about the accountability of bishops that what we have at the moment are structures that are in need of development at the very least. they need to bring professionals in to do investigation, in to do the analysis that needs to be done, but all that needs to happen faster than it is at the present time, but i think the pope has made the apology, and in meeting the victims that is profoundly important. he did say that meeting the victims has to be 90% listening and i hope that happened, i hope he really heard what they had to say. i am sure he will take it away and synthesise it and bring it into this huge problem that exists. one of the lease it is such a problem as you get cases, it is not all simple, at the moment, if a priest or religious figure convicted, they are out of the church, but no longer priests. but then the problem is, the church has no power over them any more. they cannot manage them, so we really need to think about that, think about protecting children and we need to think about the wider problem which

catholic country live to all ages there is need of baka who is in dublin for is covering the pope's visit so the final engagement today need was a meeting with bishops which wrapped up a short time ago do we know what came out of that. as a boy down in liverpool the final piece of work would be here with a little golden key to lead the bishops obama early because it will be the bishops that will carry on the work of the most when he goes and opposes eventually led me to attempt to tackle the legacy of the police still a long shadow over irish society but he's left them with something to think about he says if you speech to them that they must set up a stringent set of norms aimed at ensuring the safety of young persons he said it is important for the church to be the example for others within society it's a picture all the wrongs of the sins of the possible replicate. i get a little bit out there on what are you dressed crowds here i'm feeding. into his homily or his servant about low asking for forgiveness for a long list of the parts wrongs committed by the church here in ireland here's what the pontiff had to say to those gathered here. the muppe

of women and children in recent years. from dublin our religion editor martin bashir reports. bishopsally pounding the turf at leinster rugby ground. but as ireland prepares to welcome pope francis, it is also hosting this global gathering of catholics. an alter has been built along the touchline, but that is as nothing compared to the challenge of reconstructing the church after decades of scandal. a lot of the pain and the hurt that we felt we were moving on from has resurfaced, particularly for people who were hurt by the clergy in the church. and i think the holy father, it's critical that he does something to try and address that. phoenix park, another venue, has been under construction for months. the catholic church and the irish government are spending more than £27 million to host pope francis. the highlight of this weekend's visit will be here on sunday when pope francis celebrates mass. 500,000 tickets have been issued. so, will ireland feel like it did the last time the pope was in town? 1979, and popejohn paul ii was greeted by the largest gathering of irish people in his

of women and children in recent years. from dublin, our religious affairs editor martin bashir reports. bishops rugby ground. but as ireland prepares to welcome pope francis, it's also hosting this global gathering of catholics. an altar has been built along the touchline, but that's as nothing compared to the challenge of reconstructing the church after decades of scandal. a lot of the pain and the hurt that we felt we were moving on from has resurfaced, particularly for people who were hurt by clergy in the church. and i think the holy father, it's critical that he does something to try and address that. phoenix park, another venue, has been under construction for months. the catholic church and the irish government are spending more than £27 million to host pope francis. the highlight of this weekend's visit will be here on sunday when pope francis celebrates mass. 500,000 tickets have been issued. so will ireland feel like it did the last time the pope was in town? 1979, and popejohn paul ii was greeted by the largest gathering of irish people in history. back then almost 90% of catholics a

of women and children in recent years. from dublin, our religious affairs editor martin bashir reports. bishopse turf at leinster rugby ground. but as ireland prepares to welcome pope francis, it's also hosting this global gathering of catholics. an altar has been built along the touchline, but that's as nothing compared to the challenge of reconstructing the church after decades of scandal. a lot of the pain and the hurt that we felt we were moving on from has resurfaced, particularly for people who were hurt by clergy in the church. and i think the holy father, it's critical that he does something to try and address that. phoenix park, another venue, has been under construction for months. the catholic church and the irish government are spending more than £27 million to host pope francis. the highlight of this weekend's visit will be here on sunday when pope francis celebrates mass. 500,000 tickets have been issued. so will ireland feel like it did the last time the pope was in town? 1979, and popejohn paul ii was greeted by the largest gathering of irish people in history. back then almost

the church over the abuse of women and children over the years, involving the recent revelations in pennsylvania. in dublin, religion editor martin bashir reports. martin: bishops and priests are not usually pounding the turf at the rugby ground. but as ireland prepares to welcome pope francis, it is also hosting this global gathering of catholics. an altar has been built along the touchline, but that is nothing compared to the challenge of reconstructing the church after decades of scandal. >> a lot of the pain and the hurt we thought we were moving on from has resurfaced, particularly those who were hurt by clergy in the church. i think the holy father is critical, that he does something to try to address that. martin: phoenix park, another venue, has been under construction for months. the catholic church and the irish government are spending more than 27 million pounds to host pope francis. the highlight of the visit will be here on sunday, when pope francis celebrates mass. 500,000 tickets have been issued. will ireland feel like it did the last time the pope was in town? 1979, and pope john paul ii was greeted by the largest gathering of irish people in h

and speaking at a dublin castle, the pope offered simp tympathy. >> translator: the failure of the bishops and priests to adequately address these appalling crimes has given rise to our rage. and humans a source of pain and shame for the catholic community. i, myself, share those sentiment. >> joining me right now is cnn senior vatican analyst john allen covering the pope's visit. good to see you. so the pope addressed the abuse scandal earlier today. we've had a lot of catholics on the air here at cnn, and many of whom have said, this is a step but it's not the answer. so what might be next for the pope in addressing this or the catholic church overall in addressing this? >> well, fredericka, i thought maybe the best reaction, and this was before the pope spoke today, actually, the head of the theology faculty at the national seminary here in ireland, that's where they train future priests. it's a place called minuth. they had a piece in one of the irish newspapers saying the irish public opinion was not going to be convinced by anything pope francis said until he addressed the elephant i

in dublin, pope francis spoke of the sexual abuse of children by catholic priests and the failure of the church to address it. translation: the failure of ecclesiastical authorities, bishopss superiors, priests and others adequately to address these repellent crimes has rightly given rise to outrage and remains a source of pain and shame for the catholic community. i myself share those sentiments. pope francis will meet with survivors of clerical abuse during his visit. some say his condemnation of these crimes is not enough. it has to be zero tolerance and that means every abusive priest, bishop and those who covered it up, be sacked and removed from the church immediately. half the population of ireland turned out to see pope john paul in 1979. back then, homosexuality, contraception and divorce were illegal. now ireland is very much changed. an ireland that is very different from 1979 when a pope was last among us. an ireland i suppose a bit more divided in terms of social issues and religious issues and so on. but i think everybody will be touched by the warmth of pope francis, by his sense of proximity particularly to vulnerability. the famous popemobile will come th

in chile all thirty four roman catholic bishops offered to resign in may in the wake of a child sex scandal cover up. let's now go to our guests joining us in dublin is christopher lamb he's the correspondent for the tablet weekly review in london michael waltz a vatican historian and editor of the oxford dictionary of pope's and churn of a sea ukraine joining us via skype is donna coyne he's the director of research at the school of law and government of dublin city university thank you very much for joining us on al-jazeera donna so we see the pope now in ireland he begged for forgiveness for a clerical child sex abuse and says he wishes to see justice served for the thousands of abuse survivors that he go far enough in acknowledging the church's role in their suffering or that he fall sorts. well from what i've heard so far the reaction from. used members of the catholic church he didn't go far enough because he's more observant fortunate very familiar with the stage what people are looking for is you know accountability and and not just simply apologies i'm not even sure what he wants of arsenic an apology he simply acknowledged you know that

bishop zubik, the bdiocese in pittsburgh. today, the first sunday mass after the release of the report, interesting to see if people here feel if that is enough. >> polo sandoval, thank you. >>> pope is traveling to dublinireland, later this week to attend catholic world meetings of families and we signed john allen there who is editor for "the boston globe" crux. a lot of survivors who say, john, the pope needs to step you as you just heard there. this is a grand jury report incriminating catholic priests of sexually abusing 1,000 children. more than 300 predator priests is how they were characterized. is the pope's ability to act as a moral authority dependent on how he reacts to this report? >> good morning. first of all, a very small correction. crux was launched by "the boston globe" but we have been independent of them for a couple of years so i wouldn't want there to be any blowback on what you say about "the boston globe." >> thank you for the correction. >> look. here is the thing. pope francis is a very popular figure around the world. a lot of people see him as moral leader but there is no doubt that the blows that the catholic church and the vatican and he personally have taken over the sex

bishops, priests, and others adequately to address these repugnant crimes has rightly given rise to outrage and remains a source of pain and of shame for the catholic community. amy: we will go to dublin to speak with a member of snap -- the survivors network of those abused by priests -- and with a former priest and long-time supporter of clergy sex abuse victims. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. republican arizona senator john mccain has died at the age of 81. the senator and two-time presidential candidate was battling a malignant brain tumor for over a year. on friday, his family announced he was ending his treatment, and he died saturday afternoon at his home in arizona. senator mccain served as a naval pilot in the vietnam war, spending five years as a prisoner of war after his plane was shot down in 1967. he spent two years in solitary confinement and twice attempted suicide. he eventually signed a statement he would forever regret, confession admitting to "crimes against the vietnamese country and people." this experience made mccain a life-long opponent of torture. yet upon his release and re

those developments, but he has talked about it in dublin this morning, this afternoon, if you will there saying that the failure of authorities of bishopsnd religions, priests an others to adequately address these crimes has given rise to outrage. the irish prime minister has also spoken to this and said the church need to do more. it seemed to lead to a bit of a tense exchange between the two but it has been told we're told will be very very friendly, that the pope is going to be meeting with a number of victim's groups to try to speak, he says not only for irish catholics but catholics worldwide that this will not be tolerated and will not be allowed to continue. we'll keep you posted. also keeping you posted on other developments concerning north korea. this was to be the weekend secretary of state mike pompeo was to leave for north korea would be his fourth trip this year the president called it off abruptly yesterday saying he had not seen sufficient progress on the part of the north koreans to denuclearize and a foreign policy fellow at the independent women's forum, what do you think of what this means, claudia? >> this means tha