ancient institution. >> sean o'malley: it's a very different world now, because of his style. >> o'donnell: part of that style includes the pope's reliance on advisors like cardinal sean o'malley. o'malley not only works closely with the pope, but stays with him at the vatican guesthouse when he comes to rome on business. when you come here to rome, you stay at the domus sanctae marthae, which is just right over there. >> o'malley: yes, ordinarily. yeah. >> o'donnell: that means you're roommates with the pope. >> o'malley: well, yes, you see very often will go and celebrate mass with him in the morning. and... and we have our meetings right there. >> o'donnell: cardinal o'malley and then-cardinal jorge bergoglio of buenos aires became fast friends when the boston archbishop visited argentina on church business in 2010. if you want to understand pope francis, you'd do well to look at cardinal o'malley. you knew him before. i mean, did you know that he >> o'malley: i knew that he would be different. i am delighted that he is beyond my expectations. >> o'donnell: both share the same outlook-- open, non- judgmental, given to simple living, and not afraid to consider

tomorrow cardinal sean o'malley and rick warren are the key note speakers. yesterday we caught up with catholic high schoolers across the area. they were packing up food from the yesterdayy in west africa. they're out of school and told us they chose to be here. >> we want to help people. not everyone is as fortunate as we are here, so give giving up some of my time is not as bad as necessities for other people. >> a global family is what one pan from ghana told us. people from more than 100 different nations are in philadelphia this week. >> pope francis isn't the only big name visiting the u.s., the week the president of china is expected to arrive in d.c. today, also spent several days in seattle for a private dinner with the president. several items on the agenda, cyber attacks and climate change. >> we are covering more country sill chaos after weeks of trying, the small girl finally had enough councilmembers to hold a meeting. look at this scene that unfolded as police were called in. >> no matter what happens -- >> police had to be called to remove un

boston's archbishop, cardinal sean o'malley, and at least 10 others, have offered to pay for bella's funeral. jim. >> pelley: displim marlie, thank you. the kennebunkport has released classified briefings on events that shook the white house in the 1960s. that's coming up. released 19,000 pages of classified briefings of what took place in the darkest days of 1960. bill plante tells us what those documents reveal. >> reporter: it was president kennedy, angered by bad intelligence on the disastrous attempted invasion of cuba's bay of pigs, who first asked for a daily rundown of the latest top secret intelligence. kennebunkport director john brennan: >> they called it the pickle short for the president's intelligence checklist. >> reporter: the first version in 1961 was written to fit in the president's breast pocket and stamped, "top secret." the following years after the soaves pulled back their missiles in cuba, the kennebunkport said: and they noted fidel castro's displeasure. three days after president kennedy was assassinated, the daily briefing confirmed that lee harvey oswald h

planning to do to change the catholic church, you'd do well to ask his closest american advisor, cardinal sean o'malley

he also gets advice from his very good friend, cardinal sean o'malley from boston. he has advisors who know this. he wasn't totally ignorant of the united states before. he's watched the united states all of his life. because it is the super-power. it is so influential in the world. >> the pope's modified jeep wrangler has arrived at the front of st. patrick's cathedral just across from rockefeller center, she's tetche he's steppe cheers of the crowd, and the church has just undergone a major renovation, took several years. i think the final phases of it were rushed so the scaffolding could be entirely removed for arrival of this pretty important guest. president mcguire i understand that you couldn't tear yourself away from the beginning of the semester to see the pope but you watched the speech from your very busy office. this is a church you've watched your whole life. what did you make of this visit so far? >> well, it was just spectacular and our students on campus, many of them went to the mass yesterday at the basilica and a number of them were down on the we

lead one is cardinal sean o'malley of boston, the the lead representative on that council but then he also created a tribunallal so that if a bishop has in the done what he should do, which is immediately report to civil authorities that immediately remove a priest from his ministry, that they be held accountable also for clericalism, for not making, for not proceeding in the legal process the the way that it should, if, in fact, there has been a priest whom they have credible evidence that there had has been abuse. >> he has accepted resignations of two u.s. bishop is accused of a cover up, archbishop of minneapolis and archbishop of kansas city. >> and there have been hundreds of priests, removed from the ministry over the years. they are primarily under pope bendik, even though people have been highly critical of pope bendik over the years saying he didn't do enough about sex a abuse. you understand that from a point of view you understand that it feels like it is never enough and you understand that i have been with people, been with families of children who have died because of t

it was cardinal sean o'malley, in charge of the commission for the protection of minors. the biggest significance the fact that he delivered that message right there in front ever those bishops. >> claudio, thank you very much for weighing in on that. >>> i'm joined now in studio in new york with george weigel, senior vatican analyst for nbc news. as kathleen cummings, professor of studies at notre dame. kathleen, first to you. we were talking yesterday about the eight bus loads of university of notre dame students that were coming to hear this pope. you are a teacher there. to what extent has this conversation been under way about sex abuse within the church? has that been suggest discussed in your classroom, and if so what's the reaction been? >> we have discussed it and alex, those students arrived at 7:30 this morning after a night spent on a bus and are as excited -- you wouldn't believe how excited they are to be there. . >> i can imagine. >> yes. they're tired but i'm told they had pop-tarts for breakfast. yes, we do talk about that in my classroom. i teach about t

immediate footage afterwards one of the first people to speak to the pope after his address was cardinal sean o'malleys in charge of the child protection agency, if you will, in the vatican who deals with firsthand these victims. you could see how pleased the cardinal was to hear the pope speak so strongly. >> nancy, the verb "heal." right? that is what the people on this table would have said his message was put out like that today. as he does this, and you look at the seminarians who so well noted earlier, this is a very important part of their life. they are saying do i move forward or do i not. that's a tough question at that age. he met the youngest and oldest. i think it was 18 and 21 of the seminarians that were there but really saying we're going to fix this, we will deal with these issues because this is about people, not about orthodoxy. very interesting way the way he's approaching it but not surprising either. he has mentioned this issue at least five times by some counts this sexual abuse scandal. >> i think what's really important is he's paving the way for those new seminarians by havin

that was one of the first things he did with boston cardinal sean o'malley to focus on that question. that's what they are doing right now at the vatican. this is where the kind of conversation has moved. what people are looking for is, you know, what concrete things are going to come out of that. that is a very complex thing to figure out how to hold the bishops accountable not because they have abused but perhaps because they were aware of abuse or moved people or so on. there is a tribunal at the vatican that has been started by pope francis to address this issue, but we're still not there yet. >> and why does it take so long? i know things move slowly in the vatican, but, i mean, this issue has been going on since -- i remember when i was a kid many the '80s this was an issue that was written about. it obviously got even more attention in the '90s and the 2000s. but, you know, to the point made by many sex abuse survivors, things do seem to be move very good slowly. >> you know, anderson, normally the working motto of the vatican is talk to me on wednesday and we'll get back to yo

blessings of disabilities on friday the joy of the gospel of life with pastor rick warren and cardinal sean patrick o'malley of boston. our coverage here on nbc 10 continues on air online and on the nbc 10 news app. live in center city, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. >> thanks, monique. the nbc 10 news app has everything you need to get ready. you'll find pictures and video from the pope's arrival in d.c. you'll find a list of no-parking areas, road closures and mass transit changes. we'll be right back. >>> a man who gave souse many great quote, baseball hall of famer yogi berra, passed away overnight. he won 10 world series during his career with the yankees. he also served in world war ii but he may be most remembered for his famous sayings known as yogiisms such as "it ain't over till it's over" and "if you get to the fork in the road, take it" and "you should always go to other people's funerals otherwise they won't come to yours." yogi berra was 90 years old. >>> this week's wednesday's child is a bright artistic and athletic girl who knows the true meaning of love. she would be a terrific addition to