i was raised catholic, went to catholic school, served as an altar boy. i thought i had it figured out. when something like that happens to you, it makes you question everything. at a young age, i started a search for answers. i read everything i could get my hands on. hagel, aristotle and aquinas, and everything you can imagine in between. in fact, you may have heard i enjoyed the work of a certain female author whose books are monuments to the idea that men and women should be true to their passions even in the face of social pressure to conform. it is true. i was. and i remain a huge fan of the "twilight" saga. [laughter] that actually is a joke. after i was elected to congress, i was young. i had to wrestle with many issues, as a representative and as a catholic. as i wrestled with my views, i kept noticing two things in my beliefs. solidarity and subsidiary. that sounds intimidating. it is really simple. solidarity is this belief that we are all in this together. we must be good to one another. we must be generous with our love and we must withhold i

and i hope he will ring the divisions between the so-called catholic left in the so-called catholic right so that all may be one in christ. it is a spiritually impoverished that need the most help. pope francis calls the tierney of relativism the spiritual poverty of our time and it affects rich countries worst of all, including our own. to truly help the poor we have to help the whole person, not just the material merits but the spiritual ones, too. the fact is, the government can't give this help. the law is blind. it treats everyone the same. even though we are all equal, we are not all the same. we have different needs. only people can meet these needs. the people in government are hard-working but they can only do so much. they can't give us the personal attention we need. so we need to look for people outside of government and we will find them in our communities. the students here at benedictine, in our churches, our schools, our neighborhoods, our friends and families. academics call this mediating institutions. in the end, it is just people. people working together to help other

in the mid-1980s he was the man to watch in the catholic hierarchy. he could have had almost any job he wanted in the church and if you don't think that his power, then you don't know the catholic church. this is the most highly developed network in the world. the power and prestige that were available to tom as he worked in the vatican embassy in washington were enormous. when he got the assignment to check out a case of abuse in louisiana, he took it seriously and check the welfare of children seriously and he valued the welfare of children above his own career. if you don't think priests care about their career, then you don't know priests. this is not a vocation where they hand you things. the ambition in the ranks for the priesthood among bishops is intense and as spiritual as tom was he was an ambitious fellow too and he believed in the church. he believed in what the hierarchy said and he is still a christian man but he has practiced christianity by fighting on behalf of children. because of that, he has been abused in ways that no man should b

the catholic church will tell you she did not. is one of the small but growing number of women who claim to have been ordained as a catholic priest. there are about 120 women worldwide. the ceremony was held at a lutheran church in san francisco. >> because this is the roman catholic ordination, we had to find a place that would welcome us. and this lutheran church did. with an open heart. >> she says she's not concerned about being ex communicated from the church before the ceremony, she said it was right for her and the girls that come after her in the catholic church. the vatican said women who presume to be priests are committing a, quote, grave sin. >>> the winner of the boston marathon says he will return his medal to the city. he met with secretary of state john kerry who was visiting ethiopia. he told kerry he wanted to honor the victims of the marathon bombing by donating his first place medal to the city of boston. kerry is in ethiopia to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the african union. >>> dozens of runners who didn

maria ites is one of a small but growing number of women who claim to have been ordained as a catholic priest. there are about 120 women worldwide. the ceremony today was held at a lutheran church in san francisco. >> and because this is a roman catholic ordination, we had to find a place that would welcome us. and this lutheran church did, with an open heart. >> ites says she is not concerned about controversy or being excommunicated from the catholic church. she says becoming a priest is right for her and for women and girls who will come after her in the catholic church. the vatican says that women who presume to be priests are committing, quote, a grave sin. >>> a sigh of relief here in san jose as japan's all nepan airlines successfully resumed their boeing 787 flights today. san jose international airport launched dreamliner service january 11th, but because of a battery problem, grounded flights just six days later. ana will resume dreamliner service between san jose and japan june 1st. the first caltran to use a new elevated separation track rolled through san bruno this mornin

i am a catholic. and i am a catholic so i can have the fast track paradise easypass because i am in communion with the one true church. in word the 1-3 scanner, membership has its privileges. if the lord redeems atheists, all bets are off? what's next? the lord redeems lutherans? it's madness. i feel like a chump. i was an altar boy for 11 years. i put some miles in on my knees, all upon upin' and downin' and crissin' and crossin'. hey, colbert, you have a stamp on your head. i thought it was a hand stamp for heaven. some godless go guy can swoop in at the 11th hour and get redeemed? i want a refund. you know what i could have done with all those hours at church? i could have learned slide guitar. ( laughter ) i could have become fluent in thai. "ka pra nuk no gaah." that means, nothing because i never learned thai. ( cheers and applause ) and i just think-- i just think, francis, maybe somebody should have mentioned that believing in god was optional. because-- news flash ! -- it's ridiculous. an inv

in the history of the catholic church. two of them were women known for their charitable work. the rest were hundreds of lehman from the southern from theown -- laymen

[laughter] >> catholic settlement. [laughter] >> it was just really, i mean just-- when you grew up near a big city, you don't hear that kind of thing. you just-- it was just very interesting. >> and that's an example i was going to use, but it slipped my mind. you find that in these small towns in illinois you get down there and there is the one church and some towns it's the big catholic church. and that's conventional there. you go there and say, "where's the methodist church?" "well let's see, there is a methodist church down in the car wash down the road, some little back thing next town down the way." they all seem to be seven or eight miles apart. i guess how long it took to ride a horse before your butt hurt or something like that. but the next one down the pipe might have the big methodist church and there you go. so it's interesting and i am-- again when we are thinking about sociology and religion and bringing up some of these terminologies is just kind of a wake up call to watch our feelings, watch the kind

this is the catholic church by manuel. this is the only type of it's exhibition. although it is an interior scene, the 17th century dutch painting which is the artist attention to the effect of life. here the artist subject is the atmosphere and play of light in an imagined catholic church. diffused light through ng terest ra shower interior with the glow and architectural space. here we see view of harlem with bleaching ground 1675. he was the leading painter of this golder age. view of harlem with bleaching ground not until the bash zone schools he painted on easels to look what was going to be translated. it's something to look at artist typically from going back to the studios and painting. another example master full approach to the landscape genre is evidenced here in landscape 1660-1670. he has captured the forest with ice, frost and snow covered ground. the virtually monochromatic scene. it's interesting to point out that 17th dutch paintings is related to the usual climactic conditions at the time. from 1850 all of western europe experienced ice age. he p

yet, but his behavior in general leads women, catholic women in the u.s. to think that perhaps he may be more open about the role of women in the church and particularly in dealing with the sexual abuse scandals. we know one in six girls, one in three boys that is been a victim of sexual abuse. that's something that has to be chandi up, and there's a sense that he's going to take that on. >> it must be a lot of relief from catholic women example, sexual abuse scandals have so clouded this gat relion, at it was hard to get from under them because they kept coming forward, and here's a man that takes the church back to the first principles if ever there were some, and h he's suca deeply read intellectual that he applies the theory to -- believe me, even the economy. there are going to be sayings of pope francis when you come out with words like "tyranny of the market." the market, which has been seen as god, especially -- and so catholics and people like me are going to hear these praises, and say, my goodness, he'saking a top and think about everything that

the catholic church in australia says more than 600 children were abused by priests over the past 80 years. from sydney, we have this report. months ago,tter of the cardinal was in the splendor of the sistine chapel, electing a new pope. today, he faced protests and almost five hours of fierce questioning by parliamentary committee looking at the problem of child sex abuse. >> i am fully apologetic and absolutely sorry, and that is the basis for everything on .hich i will say >> the roman catholic church in victoria says there have been 600 cases of child abuse since the 1930's. the cardinal admitted publicly there have been some instances of coverups. >> the fear of the scandal led this camera -- led to coverups. could it have allowed priests to prey on innocent children? would have to say there is significant truth in that. >> this family has suffered terribly. two daughters were victims of sexual abuse at the hands of the school priest. one committed- suicide. the other is now disabled after drinking heavily and being hit by a car. they say the cardinal has showed a social path th

made possible by the annenberg/cpb project as the 16th century ended and the 17th began, here in catholicome there was a feeling of jubilation, a sense of rebirth. pope paul v, in the year of our lord 1612, has brought water 35 miles from the healthiest springs in bracciano through new and restored aqueducts. what better way to sigl the revival of the ancient grandeur of rome than to restore its renowned system for bringing water from distant mountns to the city streets? pope paul's new water supply, the acqua paola, or paul's water as it was called, was soon rushing into the daylight from fountains all around the city. the finest of these fountains was designed by sculptor and architect, gian lorenzo bernini. it was built in the piazza navona which stood on foundations of an ancient stadium, a material expression of the idea of eternal rome. the city had survived 100 years of political and religious turmoil, of war and destruction. despite invasions of european monarchs who'd attempted to conquer the city on the pretext of defending it, it had preserved its independence. most important,

and the catholic church said it would weigh the effects of the change.ther religious groups said the boy scouts didn't go far enough. they had called for permitting gay scout leers as well. >>> according to a new poll, the number of americans who believe same-sex relationships are morally acceptable has risen to 59%, up from 40% in 2001. gallup's annual survey on different moral attitudes also showed a growing acceptance of having a child outside of marriage and of sex between unmarried men and women. >>> vermont this week became the fourth ste to allophysician assted suicide. it is already legal in oregon, washington state and montana. vermont's catholic bishop denounced the new law, saying it creates a "death state," where, he said, life can be terminated now at both its beginning and its end. >>> a philadelphia couple has been charged with murder in the death of their 8-month-old son, who died after they chose to pray instead of seeking medical treatment for the child. the baby was suffering from pneumonia. this was the couple's second child to die fr

>> man kuso will be excommunicate bid the roman catholic church. it's something, she says she can live with. >> thanks for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. >> abc 7 news at 5:00 begins right now. >> thank you. customers at one of the in order storm cave yaiz may have been exposed to a rare and potentially deadly disease. >> live from the roof of the kgotv broadcast center, second day of record heat but major changes coming up for the weekend. i'll tell you about them, coming up. >> parents of a martinez boy tell how he's recover prg more than just the physical wounds suffered in the attacks. >> these homes escaped disaster. flames rushed close in the heat. >> it go so hot a spare of air day declared just afternoon that. is no surprise to folks cooling off on the bay. >> another record breaking day. let's head outside. sandhya? >> yes. we're feeling winds of change if you will. feels great here. let's check out live doppler 7. clear skies right now. san francisco, 79 degrees. mountain view also a new record urks 88. we do vai red flag warning goin

in a new church bulletin insert that will be given to catholics around the country, the bishops urge prayer for the protection of "traditional marriage." >>> the dalai lama began a six-city u.s. tour by strongly condemning inter-religious violence. he specifically included the recent conflict between buddhists and muslims in myanmar. speaking at the university of maryland, the tibetan buddhist leader said such fighting, like that between sunnis and shiites in iraq or catholics and protestants in northern ireland, is motivated by political and economic factors, not religion. he said all the major faith traditions have a message of peace. >>> despite that message, there were seral new oureakof interfaith violence around the world this week. in nigeria, at least ten people died in an attack on a church and a nearby market, the latest in a long series of attacks by islamist extremists who often target christians. in tanzania, at least two people were killed and dozens injured in a bombing during the dedication of a new catholic church. and in bangladesh, at least 22 died in clashes betwe

folks, as television's foremost catholic, i'm always looking out for the hottest trends hitting the catholicurch. that's why i'm giving a tip of the hat to the catholic diocese of brooklyn for reaching out to a hip new audience. >> you may have seen these on phone booths and papering gym walls in queens and brooklyn. they are advertisements of a sneaker-wearing jesus. the ads call him the original hipster but it is not a slam much it's an attempt to get people to church. >> stephen: yes, jesus was the original hipster. after all he was into christianity way before it went mainstream. i don't know how i didn't see this sooner, folks. an unemployed 33-year-old who home-brews his own water into wine, and thinks he's god's gift to humanity. that's like every other guy in brooklyn. ( cheers and applause ). and jesus was ironic as it gets. when everyone else went swimming, jesus was like, nah, i'd rather go for a walk. even his death was ironic. sup, romans, yeah, i was dead for a while. but then i got bored, yolo. next i'm no fan of drugs, folks. they're immoral. hey, drug mules, swallow that her

doctrine. >> isn't the catholic church, strictly catholic charities in boston, they affirmatively --se they were told you could not follow catholic adoption which was for marriage between a marriage and a woman. >> the point is you don't have the state telling people what to -- the question is whether or not religious institutions can make public policy. whether they can -- >> there's a lot of religious institutions that have moral objections and -- >> if you're running a pharmacy the public is allowed to use -- same issue if people had -- let's say it's my religious objection to have -- >> the catholic church's opposition to contraception is on the same moral level as racial discrimination? >> i'm saying would you have the right to discriminate based on your religious beliefs? a lot of people used to say that was their reason. what i'm saying is people have a right to their religious beliefs but there is a -- >> except for when you say public policy should trump it. >> if the church is fwoing to make our public policy are we any longer a secular state? >> harold, your general commen

local chaldean churches, along with mosques and groups like catholic charities and the international rescue committee, offer aid and orientation to the iraqi refugees. >> by using the three techniques at least. apply online. what else? networking. >> that help often comes in the form of classroom instruction, where the newly arrived iraqis learn survival skills f everyday life in america. erica bouris is a resettlement manager for the international rescue committee in san diego. >> we provide cultural orientation. we help with housing and, you know, making sure that kids are immunized, kids enroll in school, those are the kinds of things that we are doing with folks in the first couple of months. >> really nitty gritty things? >> very nitty gritty things. absolutely. get your driver's license. do you know how to take the bus? we just saw in the class practicing how to write a check. do you know how to pay your rent and pay your bills? >> some institutions which try to help the refugees, such as san diego's most prominent iraqi christian church, acknowledge providing assistance has st

as of 2011, the catholic population was just over 1.2 billion. growth has dropped in europe and the u.s., but has accelerated in the developing world, particularly africa and asia. meanwhile, the number of permanent deacons, men who can be married and who are allowed to perform certain duties, rose 43% in europe and was also up sharply in the americas. but the number of women in religious orders has dropped 10%, worldwide. >>> pope francis this week charged that certain policies of the global financial system are tyrannizing the poor. in a speech to new ambassadors to the vatican, francis warned against a "cult of money." he said money should serve and not rule. before becoming pope, francis was widely known as an advocate for the poor in his native argentina. >>> we have a lucky severson story today on the impact on the poor in the u.s. of the federal government's so-called "sequestration." congress and the president last year approved the program's severe, across-the-board cuts as a way to force reductions in overall spending. but now, especial

i was raised a catholic. okay?nd, you know, i was taught and i know people of other face have been taught this, too. but i was taught, there is only one door to heaven. that door has a great big c on it and that stands for catholic and if you are not a catholic you can't go through that door. and everybody else is going to burn in hell. they just can't get there. maybe -- may not be fair but i remember the priests saying my mother was going to burn in hell because she wasn't a catholic. we were. shep wasn't. and i remember also, it's not just catholics but it was you have to do this stuff. >> that's what catholics have to do. and this is the only way to heaven. now, remember, george bush w. got in trouble with his mother because he once said that whatever -- what are they? episcpale episc eopalians. >> southern baptists? >> i am not sure. anyway, whatever faith he was, let's say it was southern baptise, he was saying unless you are southern baptist, you can't go to heaven and am his mother said, that's wrong at a t

the catholic church has issued an explanation denying reports that the pope conducted an exercise mat a mass on sunday. >> millions of people viewed online pulte francis performing what son took to be -- what some took to be in excess of them. sg with the man. >> is long, buddhism, and hinduism -- islam. >> after saying mass, mingling with the faithful and one camera caught an incident that has some wondering if the pope performed of exorcisms. >> these images were broadcast by the official station of the bishop's conference. he blessed the handicapped person and then moved to the next. after a few words, he put his hand on the head of the young man who appeared to shudder ran the slump down in his wheelchair. t be 2000's as professional exorcists are sure that he was performing an exercise some, a prayer to drive the demon out of a possessed person but the vatican was quick to deny the claim. >> what happened was a meeting with a suffering person, which some have interpreted as an exorcisms. this is baseless and on true. the holy father did not perform an exorcism. he prayed for a su

the catholic church has issued an explanation denying reports that the pope conducted an exercise mat a mass on sunday. >> millions of people viewed online pulte francis performing what son took to be -- what some took to be in excess of them. the pontiff was simply prying with the man. >> is long, buddhism, and hinduism -- islam. >> after saying mass, mingling with the faithful and one camera caught an incident that has some wondering if the pope performed of exorcisms. >> these images were broadcast by the official station of the bishop's conference. he blessed the handicapped person and then moved to the next. after a few words, he put his hand on the head of the young man who appeared to shudder ran the slump down in his wheelchair. t be 2000's as professional exorcists are sure that he was performing an exercise some, a prayer to drive the demon out of a possessed person but the vatican was quick to deny the claim. >> what happened was a meeting with a suffering person, which some have interpreted as an exorcisms. this is baseless and on true. the holy father did not perform an e

a son of secular jews, i was raised catholic, but abandoned god after the war.my mother used to say that during the holocaust, god was taking a long nap. and i agreed. so i call my religion "survival." escapes and travels are my life's refrains. i am leaving the ghetto again, but this time i am going home. the last eyewitnesses of the holocaust, we were drawn to this nonexistent world in search of its physical remnants. we brought with us pieces of our fragile memories, sometimes out of focus, afraid that after us, they will be erased. watch additional stories of child survivors of the holocaust. >> i was asking my mother why i have to go through all this stuff. >> read more from filmmaker marian marzynski about what it was like to make this personal film. >> my childhood still seems to be my psyche's unfinished business. learn more about the warsaw ghetto then and today, and connect to thefrontlinmmunity on facebook and twitter, or tell us what you think at pbs.org/frontline. >> next timfrontline... >> fraud and potential criminal conduct were at the heart of t

it does not matter if it is catholic or protestant. >> for me, god is not protestant or catholic. isn't protestant or catholic. i'm a christian. -- jesus is not protestant or catholic. >> the church is happy to be a repose amid the city humdrum. it has taken on staff like miriam to focus on the congregation. she looks after youth activities, including the church's facebook row file. when she leaves the job this summer, someone else will take her place. >> if the church as a whole wants to attract young people, then it must realize that people come together through other people, not through activities alone. and there is no activity without living, authentic people come a which is why people like me should be hired -- people, which is why people like me should be hired. >> later, preparations for the evening service. >> that all for now. thanks for joining us.

she claimed to be ordained as a catholic church.emony was held at a lutheran church. >> because it was a roman catholic ordination, we lad to find a place that welcomed us. and this lutheran church did with an open heart. >> she is not concerned about being excommunicated with the church for going through sunday's ceremony. she said becoming a priest is right for her and girls who will come after her in the catholic church. the vatican said women who are being priests committing a, quote, grave sin. >>> flights resumed this week, ana's commercial flight follows test flights required after battery fires on board. they leveraged the service in january but because of the battery problems grounded flights six days later. assuming there's no additional issues, ana plan to resume dreamliner services between san jose and japan saturday. >>> the first trains in san bruno rolled yesterday. it's a $150 million project designed to improve safety in downtown san bruno. why elevating tracks over san bruno, san mateo avenues. the project is not c

>> mancuso will eventually be excommunicated by the roman catholic church. that's something, she says, she can live with. in san ramon, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. >> lisa argen keeping track of your forecast this morning, and, boy, is there a lot going on and changes ahead. >> big changes. you can see the beginning of day light about a half-hour away. fog along the coast, half-mile visibility. san mateo coast of the right now looking for mt. tam, you see a little bit of wind. a red flag warning above 1,000 feet in the hills of the north bay. we will talk about cooler and fire danger and rain all when we return. >> thanks, lisa. also next, the sharks battle the canucks in overtime in game two of their playoff series. could the men in teal take a 2-0 series lead? larry >> welcome back, everyone. it's 5:46 on this saturday morning. you are looking live from our exploratorium cam. skyline of san francisco. the sun is starting to come up on what is going to be a warm and beautiful day. but lots of changes in store. lisa argen will have that for you coming up in

so we're not talking here about a catholic hospital, right or catholic clinic or a catholic church. >bama administration from the beginning has said if you're the catholic church on the corner, you really just serve catholics and you don't get government money in most cases therefore, you can -- in the middle of the catholic hospitals, the big catholic universities but they're not yet ripe to file these lawsuits but about 20 of them have been filed. mainly with the help of religious right groups representing almost entirely bosses who happen to be catholic. there's one mennonite boss they truck out every once in awhile. but the real question that the courts have to deal with and have not been doing very well with, the government's been losing its position on these cases, is if you can be exempt from the laws that apply to the rest of us, simply because you make a religious claim then what's left of the civil rights laws. we can just ignore those. you can ignore every law. so this ultimately, when it gets to the supreme court probably 2014 is about do religious employers have to abide

>> mancuso will eventually be excommunicated by the roman catholic church. that's something, she says, she can live with. in san ramon, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. >> lisa argen with a look at your forecast and lots of stuff we need to know to plan this weekend and beyond. >> right. relative humidity still very low in the north bay. down to 15% in some neighborhoods already. combine that with gusty northeast winds and that provides for high fire danger in the hills above 1,000 feet today. elsewhere, 10 to 15 degrees of cooling and fog by tonight, rain by tomorrow. the forecast is next. >> thank you, lisa. also next, the sharks battle the canucks into overtime in game two of the stanley cup >> welcome back. so glad you are with us. this is a live look at san jose right now where it's sunny, 58 degrees, and it's going to warm up considerably. you are looking at a high of 82 in the south bay today. warm elsewhere, as well. lisa argen will fill you in coming up. >> in sports, get ready this afternoon. the 139th kentucky derby will be run. the first black jockey