why can that worked in the -- why cannot that work in the catholic church? >> the catholic church is in peril not just in austria, but across europe. the vatican is incapable of moving with the times and introducing reforms. >> trouble is brewing at the grass roots of the catholic church. not only in his parish. >> in our local live series we are off to france, a small village being overrun. the reason, they are convinced that this village is the only place that people will be safe on the days when the world comes to an end. >> hour overnight train or bribes at the foot of the pyrenees at 6:00 a.m. and we are heading into a village near the mountain. some people say it will be the only place to survive on the world ends next year. believers are convinced that extraterrestrials will come here to rescue them. we drive through the pyrenees on narrow roads. suddenly, are gps system starts acting up. it tells us to take a stony pass instead of the road leading to the mountain. we ignore it and drive on. then the forest opens up. there it is. the mountain of the e

yes. >> imax are not catholic. i'm united methodist but i think all the churches now have the same problem. you are not getting these younger people and and that is something you said earlier in your top. we also have the same problem. i'm sure maybe it is not as talked about as the priest. the church is a safe sanctuary and to have to go through that program to work with children in the church. in some denominations they recognize it and do something about it. some don't, but i think in any religion you are you are going to find some of that. the catholic religion like you said is such a corporation is a global power. >> indeed. yes, allen? >> the church obviously has -- of your prior writings and usa writer. did you have any sense of duplicity on their part or did you feel access to everything that you wanted? everybody here the question? he said, did you ever have a sense that the church looked at you as a pariah in some way? the sad answer is yes. i had trouble getting credentials after the 2002 bishops confere

this has been the history of catholic prison. i hesitate to make a sweeps pronouncement of any kind, but this is third book i've done on the church, and sadly, i think it's an era of profound di sin gracious internally because of the failure of leadership. this is really is story about the power structure, and i follow a constellation of people in different parts of the country who are clam moriing, if you will, for their own rights as per rigs nears, and as the bishops have begun to close churches, these churches become forms of property, and the story of how the vatican oversees the liquid dation of these assets is something i had utterly no idea about until i began the research, so let me give you one overview of the book with a little shorthand. first two sets of numbers -- every year at the end of june is a collection called peters pence. peter's pence goes for the charitable uses of the pope. pope benedict rebuilt a school or provided $250,000 to rebuild a school in haiti last year. this is the kind of cause that one would

largest religious voting block in america. 27% of american voters are catholic, and the catholic voteto the popular winner in every presidential election since 1972. ridiculous rick perry is now married to the idea that catholicism is a godless cult. i will see he stays married to that statement every day his hopeless campaign for president is underway. joining me now, national director of catholic democrats, steve kroouger, thank you for joining me tonight, steve. >> thank you. >> what does rick perry not understand about this little, little insignificant voting block in america called catholics? >> i'm not sure i could have said it any better than you did. one point of fact, catholics comprise about 25% of the population, and actually vote as a larger percentage than the overall population, so they comprise about 27% of the electorate and a small but important point, there's about 20 million so-called lapse catholics in the country that still have a catholic sensibility with a great appreciation for the catholic church. >> well, they definitely have a -- a catholic cultural traditio

[bonoli speaking italian] [translator] yes, i think that catholic couples and even young italian catholics have for some time now made a distinction between their religious conscience and what might be considered as a dictate from the church. therefore, they don't feel bound within their conscience to take notice of the rules which they probably don't agree with, but this doesn't mean that they feel any less catholic. [speaking italian] [translator] i believe, and i'm a catholic, et cetera, but life has to be practical. you have to try and act according to your various needs, according to your personal problems, the type of family, and the type of work you do. don mario picchi lives in rome and has been a catholic priest for the last 36 years. [picchi speaking italian] [translator] undoubtedly, religious faith has weakened. i think it is probably partly due to the fact that it has been a very superficial faith. we probably have less worshippers today, but i would say that the ones who remain are a little more convinced. years ago, faith was often something you wore like a sunday outfit, yo

conference of catholic bishops.ssion, 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, everybody. you bet i remember you. >> safer: his brow gleaming... >> dolan: i would be sweating if we were outside. >> safer: ...hands reaching... >> dolan: where did you get the food? >> safer: ...a laugh-a-minute... ( laughter ) ...hugging, glad-handing and backslapping everyone from street cops to big-time donors. >> dolan: thank you. thank you. >> safer: ...a tireless promoter of all things catholi

anyhow, when i got there, the church was one of the largest catholic churches in the city. over 3500 families. it was a growing operation and had been almost since its beginning back in 1916 or so. and i knew right away that it wasn't going to be just a normal assignment because the neighborhood was beginning to change. the coming of the black population as, you know, if you lived anywhere on the south side, you know that there was a slow deliberate migration from the ghetto just south of the loop in the 1950s, moving steadily steadily block by block neighborhood through neighborhood and in 1964, the first black families had just moved into the church. so the people were in a considerable state of alarm because they had seen what had happened in so many of the other neighborhoods, but there was a difference at saint sebina and that was the pastor your grandmother would have known him well monsignor john mcmahon had decided that we're not just going to pick up and run because the blacks are moving in. we're going to turn this into the first integrated neighborhood in chicago

as a practicing catholic, i don't say any of this easily. growing up, many of us in here learned that we were part of a pilgrim church. today that church needs to be a pen tant church, a church truly and deeply pentant of the sins that it denied in the name of god but for the good of the institution. when i had the two-hour legislation, those who have been abused might take some small comfort in knowing that they belong to a nation, to a democracy where humanity, power, rights and responsibilities are enshrined and enacted always -- always for their good where their law as citizens of this country will always super seed canon law that is neither legit massy nor place in the affairs of this country. this report tells us a tale of a frankly brazen disregard for protecting children. if we do not respond swiftly and appropriately as a state, we will have to prepare ourselves for more reports like the. i agree with bishop martin that the church needs to public any other and all other reports like this as soon as possible. most noted that the comm

before i get into reporting i was a chicago catholic priest. my second assignment was as associate pastor at sensible and the church on the far south side of chicago, and that was 1964. t anybody else here from since the bynum?y gr no. their grandmother. gra joe, good.wh >> 1964. >> probably was. what was the name? i remember that jennings part. o anyhow, when i got there and it was one of the largest catholicn churches in the city. over 30500 families. it was a rolling operation and had been almost since its beginning back in 1916. sn't i knew right away that it wasn'a going to be just a normal assignment. the neighborhood was beginningla to change. the coming of the black sth population as you know if you lived anywhere on the south side, slow, deliberate migration from the data just south of the loop beginning in the fifties and moving steadily block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood. in 1964 the first black familyee moved in. people were in a considerable ca state of alarm because they hadd seen what had happened in some many other nei

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as a practicing catholic, i do not say any of this easily. growing up, and ems learned we were part of the pilgrim church. today that church needs to be a panic and church. a church truly and deeply pennington for the horrors it perpetrated and hid and denied. in the name of god, work for the good of the institution. when i set up legislation to put children first, those who have been abused might take small -- some small comfort in knowing they belong to a nation, to a democracy, whose power and rights and responsibilities are enshrined and enacted always for their dead. with their love as citizens of this country will always supercede canon law and -- in the affairs of this country. this report tells this a tale of a brazen disregard for protecting chongjin. if we do not respond appropriately as a state, we will have to prepare ourselves for more reports like this. i agree with the bishop that the church needs to publish any other and all other reports like this as soon as possible. the commission is positive about the work of the national

and here is the anti-catholic swing. the american in patriot did say party newspaper that eventually folded. they are opposed to roman catholicism and a close to foreigners and opposed to nunneries and the edges of its proposed two secret foreign orders and so on. they want to restrict immigration and the rights of from a catholics to vote and hold office. now, the republican party was the offspring of the use strains. anti-slavery and anti-catholic keep in mind most people in the republican party did not care about zero slavery where it already existed. they wanted to keep the territories right and the slaves out so white men could have opportunities because they believe any place where slaves go, whites cannot compete because slaves don't take wages. the republican party builds itself as the white man party. linkdin is debating steve been douglas in the senatorial campaign. the republican party's slogan was vanquished with consolidates catholicism and slavery going hand in hand. i should tell you full disclosure abraha

in 1536, even as king henry the eighth was separating from the roman catholic church, he had tyndalerrested and executed. but just a year later, it was henry who authorized the first legal english translation. baylor university professor scott carroll directs the green collection, one of the world's largest private collections of rare biblical texts and artifacts. he says 80% of tyndale's work ended up in the kjv. >> i think he's an unsung hero in the whole story. >> reporter: after henry xviii came a series of english bibles, all intertwined in the often bloody battles between catholics and protestants. when king james i came to the throne, he wanted a version of the bible that wasn't tied to a particular movement. he formed a translation committee of scholars. >> they were commissioned in 1604 to find the best translations out there and then match them up with the greek and hebrew and if they matched up, to take them. when you think about the king james, i think generally, people think about, they think it's a protestant commodity. but in fact, it really was a result, a culmination

and my dad being appalled because we are catholic. not going to vote for -- this is going to be were first catholic president. my mom's family -- heard that was the head of the republican party in the area in the early part of the 20th century come and republicans back then, you know, they were -- when they said conservative, they meant don't spend money you don't have, not a bad idea. conserve the air, conserve water, the gifts god gave us, the earth today and of course there were the party of lincoln. they were very much against slavery and against discrimination and all that. so, i had that kind of republican mother and father who was a hard core roosevelt democrat. >> what about active in thawing uaw politics? >> my dad was a uaw member, still is a retiree. he worked on the assembly line building spark plugs for ac spark plug for almost 35 years. and my uncle was in the sit-down strike in flint in the 1930's. >> and lilburn? >> lover, yes. did you know him? [laughter] >> yes he was in the sit-down strike which i think this year is

catholic church are not observing church teaching on issues like consequent septiotr. there's a lot of cafeteria thinking. >> i think picying and choosing a good way to put it. i think there is a satisfy tiara mentality. that can apply to even religious beliefs. you think that religion is in the climb in the united states. >> no, i don't. i've vested a intt i teach at religion at boston college. it's not a commercial anything. religion is powerful. there's people i don't think it's true that we're in the middle of another great awa awakening. >> let me grijalva you some statistics. look at marriage. in 19 snrirtss. the number of unwed couples shot up 1 50%. >> marriage ins decline. i think that's true. i think that's true. maybe paul and i agree on there is a battle going on here between these two ways of thinking about the world. one more can you have n nent. >> the church authorities cannot keep marriage which is a centerpiece as ovenant. >> the church authorities cannot keep marriage which is a centerpiece as we that this force is irresistible sooner or later we're

i'm a catholic!e need to fight back with an even cooler ad campaign, like this one. >> oh hi, i'm jason. i was just skateboarding while playing this guitar and ♪ falconing. and i'm a catholic. high-five a tiger! ♪ in your face mormons! >> stephen: oh, yeah. oh, yeah. by the way, the tiger is also a catholic. and you know who else could use an ad campaign? god because his poll numbers are terrible. >> a new poll by public policy polling looks at god's approval rating and you might be a little surprised at what they found. god has a 52% approval rating. >> stephen: 52%! barely half of americans. of course, the public's always tough on any prominent figure who's had a child out of wedlock. [laughter] and get this: only 71% approve of god's handling of creating the universe. that means for 29%, the infinite and unknowable everything just isn't cuttin' it. [laughter] so does god deserve these low numbers? yahweh or no way? i don't know weh! >> eh? i'm torn. on the one hand he is the all-powerful, all-lovi

get lost, go pray, this man ordered the catholics. those organizing insist that it only brings benefits. >> we are not creating any public problem whatsoever. just the opposite. we are bringing madrid a lot of money. there is more less 100 million euros coming to madrid, which otherwise would never come. >> gay rights groups have called a kissing protests on thursday. but now the focus is on meeting the pope. >> six months on from the first protest against colonel gaddafi in libya and rebels and government troops remain locked in serious conflict. heavy gunfire has been reported near and refinery complex, but supplies -- near a refinery complex that supplies oil and gas. it is a vital supply for tripoli. >> each night, in tripoli's main square, loyalists gathered wrapped in gaddafi green. the rebels have a dance within 30 miles of here. but there is no sign of support crumbling. are you worried about these reports that the rebel fighters are closing in on tripoli? >> no. we know what is going on. we have talked with their brothers. if

and this man who was against the catholic says an audience with pope pius xii. pay was the interesting pragmatist one more footnote. in the 1940's one of norrises young students who always had young people come along with his charismatic individual wanted to be like kim and had a reputation for not taking anything from anybody was a young young man by the name of john birch. a he became a missionary and while he was in china when the war was teaching up john birch got involved with military operations and became an aide and he was actually an interesting individual himself when there is time to drop the bombs john birch wrote to recover some pilots to take them to safety he was murdered in china right at the end of the second world war by a band of chinese communist that shot him to death and norris greenspan called it john birch hall it is familiar because it is called the john birch society but that a group did not start until 1958 by a man named robert welch. there is a display over here at president johnson's library at the university of texas. what he did w

he always considered himself as a bridge builder between the nazis and the catholic church. in 1937 he published his book -- [speaking german] "the basic ideas of national socialism as a catholic bishop." just want to underline that. and he dedicated his book to adolf hitler. of course, it was very helpful to have such a man as the head of the german-austrian section of the vatican commission for refugees, especially if people like adolf eichmann would knock at his door in rome after '45. and how this close cooperation between the vatican commission for refugees and the red cross worked, i want to show you in a very simple example just to illustrate it. see, you have a letter of recommendation from the vatican commission for refugees, the letterhead of the vatican. and it's a very simple piece of paper, very simple letter just saying, well, address to the international comity of the red cross, in rome in this case, asking the red cross, please, could you give mr. stanley power who is stateless and be who wants to travel to argentina a red cross travel document? he has no tra

the confrontation resulted in cardenal losing his privileges as a catholic priest. later, cardenal left the government and the sandinista party, opposing the leadership of daniel ortega. we recently spoke with ernesto cardenal while he was visiting the u.s. at the poet's house in new york. we spoke about his life and work, looking back to the early days of augusto sandino's rebellion against the united states in the early 20th century. sandino's guerilla war against the u.s. made sandino a symbol of resistance in latin america. sandino was assassinated in 1934 by general anastasio somoza garcia, who's family went on to rule nicaragua for another 40 years. his son's government was later overthrown by a revolution that took on sandino's name. >> ( translated ): well, i was about six years old when sandino was murdered by somoza, seven years old. but later-- and once dead-- a movement in favor of sandino began. as a young man, i participated in the resurrection of the figure of sandino that was taking place in nicaragua, and later appeared a political movement-- the sa

. >>> in the 2010 midterm elections, the catholic vote swung to the republican party with 54% voting gop congressional candidates. it was a 12 point increase in 2008. now, republicans also saw a 6 point increase in the number of white protestant voters in the midte midterms. there was little media analysis why this took place, but we know in the last decade the republican party has more openly and aggressively mixed religion and politics. george w. bush used dog whistles, like when he referred to the wonder working power of the american people during his 2003 state of the union speech. that was familiar, but would have passed unnoticed by others. recently, the religious fervor has grown more overt. where were you on august 6? i remember where rick, not related to me, perry was. >> his agenda is not a political agenda. his agenda is a salvation agenda. he is a wise, wise god and wise enough not to be affiliated with any political party. >> that's right, perry was speaking before 33,000 people in houston's reliant stadium. governor, seriously no relation, perry boldly proclaimed his fa

the catholic church is having these problems. "the new york times" did not create that reality. >> i grew up with a lot of italians and am dating one. [laughter] so i have to pass on the italian thing. i do think though that in terms of the driver difference in calculus in the newsroom the times hasn't followed through. it doesn't have its representative frattali and reporters in the same way that it's had its representative african-american who are latino. it's not part of the mix. i think they want the white ethnics into one big mass. the catholic thing i will say i won't go as far as bill donohue and say that bill donohue, who is the president or chairman, executive director of the catholic league who thinks the time is a deeply bigoted newspaper. i won't go as far as the archbishop in saying that but i will say that the times often seems distant from the realities of catholicism. right after my published covering the news, the second wave of the george sex scandal broke, and i went on some radio and tv a lot being asked quest

my dad being appalled because we are catholic, how could you not vote -- he would be our first catholic president. but my mom's family, her dad was the head of the repugnant party in the area in the early part of the 20th century, and republicans back then, you know, when they said conservative payments don't spend money you don't have. not a bad idea. conserve the air come and serve the water, the gifts that god gave us, this earth. and of course they were the party of lincoln. they were very much against slavery and against discrimination and all that. so i had that kind of republican mother and father who was a hard-core roosevelt democrat. >> what about active in the uaw politics? >> my dad was a uaw member, still lives. he is a retiree. he worked on the assembly line building sparkplugs for ac spark plugs for 35 years. and my uncle was in the sitdown strike in flint in the 1930s. >> lavern? >> laverne, yeah. did you know him? [laughter] but he was in the sitdown strike which i think this year is going to be the 75th anniversary of that. this strike in flint created the uaw, really

and he realizes that hey, roman catholics adhere on the same page and this man who is against the catholics in the '20s has an audience with pope pius the 12th. in 1947. so he was an interesting pragmatist. a man who could change. one footnote al qaeda and the no take some questions if you have them, as something i didn't hit come is that in the 1940s one of norris his young students, and is always have young people come along. is a very charismatic kind of individual and they want to be like them and learn from him, and he had a reputation for not taking anything from anybody and so forth, was a young man by the name of john birch. that's a name that you may know. john birch became a missionary, sent out by norris his church to china. while he was in china in the late '30s, early '40s of course that's when the war was heating up. john birch got involved with military operations. and became an ecologist aid. john birch was asked a very interesting individual himself. when 30 seconds over tokyo and the ditch over china, john birch helped recover several of the pilots and taken to safety. joh

i took two young handsome catholic priests to a passover. everyone at the table was thinking betsy would be great. i kept kicking them. celibate, celibate. they didn't care. single, single. i am going celibate, celibate. it is a real irony. jews live and work hard and the for pleasure and emphasize education and when it comes to policy they get the opposite view. that is why i say to my fellow jews who are liberal free to what you practice. a lot of liberals would be like that. it is very bad to get something for nothing. 47% of our society determines what the other 53% will pay. can you imagine a bowling club that ran that way? everybody is a member of the bowling club and those who don't pay a nickel towards do you describe what the others will pay. can you imagine that? it is inconceivable that a bowling club would run that way. we run the united states of america that way. getting something for nothing is a very bad thing. the bigger the government the more the corruption. this is almost never mentioned and might be the biggest of the te

the catholic church is having these problems. "the new york times" did not create that reality. >> i grew up with a lot of italians and am dating one. [laughter] so i have to pass on the italian thing. i do think though that in terms of the driver difference in calculus in the newsroom the times hasn't followed through. it doesn't have its representative frattali and reporters in the same way that it's had its representative african-american who are latino. it's not part of the mix. i think they want the white ethnics into one big mass. the catholic thing i will say i won't go as far as bill donohue and say that bill donohue, who is the president or chairman, executive director of the catholic league who thinks the time is a deeply bigoted newspaper. i won't go as far as the archbishop in saying that but i will say that the times often seems distant from the realities of catholicism. right after my published covering the news, the second wave of the george sex scandal broke, and i went on some radio and tv a lot being asked quest

yeah, i was raised as a catholic, you know. and of course, i left the church at the age of 13 or 14. as most ex-catholics that i speak to, you know, they sort of leave the church at around that time. and i've always felt there was a, you know-- there's a basic conflict between what the church tells you and what your body tells you at that age. and if you're smart, you'll listen to your body. (paulson) and you mentioned that before this controversy, you were relatively unknown. yeah. a little more than a decade later, you are widely known and widely respected. so was that controversy a blessing or a curse? both. you know, why couldn't it be both? yeah. i mean, that's--but that's the nature of my work, that there is a lot of conflict and contradiction within the work, and certainly the way it's been perceived and seen, you know, outside of the studio is also conflicted. so who would be some of the artists that you looked to for inspiration early in your career? a lot of dead ones. but early on, i was influenced, i think, by filmm

, as we say in catholic school. and nobody ever hammered us down. jorma, our lead guitar player, always thought that we were part of a cia lsd experiment. so that whenever we would go out across the country, they would go in ahead of us and tell the local police department, "don't arrest them; they're okay. "we got an eye on them. it's part of a program." 'cause we just got away with the most ridiculous kind of stuff. of course, even if you had that clearance from the cia, that didn't prevent certain police chiefs in certain towns from pulling the plug on the show, turning off lights. and when the police and-- or the church people or whoever would make a protest to us in contrast to the normal a.c.l.u. kind of approach, it would heighten our sales. and we would go out and debate with church leaders or politicians or policemen about this, that, or the other thing. and it would be like good publicity, really. even going to jail-- the few minor times that we were put in jail-- it got written up in all the papers. and s