what it means you being a catholic.t is why i said there are so many ways of being a catholic, just as there are so many ways of being a jew that it is more the social identity that you have or that social background that you have that affects how you vote much more than just a label. >> i think it is important to there is not a catholic seat on the board. there is not that there is a jewish seat on the board. justice ginsburg has said some of the justices that preceded us were jewish justices, and justice breyer and i are justices who happened to be jews, and, certainly, president george w. bush did not set out to put two catholics on the court. in fact, remember, he nominated an evangelical protestant, harriet miers, who did not make it, so i think it is much more that they look at the ideology of the person and their background then religion. >> i think there is an irony in that. for brennan, his catholicism was the main issue at his confirmation hearing. as marshall described, they asked him, if it comes to loyalty

the way if angelical's used to think catholics were the -- the way evangelicals used to think catholicsere the core of babylon. can i said it -- can i say that on tv? i think it is extreme to say it is profit ties in. -- proselytizing. >> there has never been a president inaugurated without a prayer. >> let me being extremist. they are two places in washington from which supreme court justices should stay away religiously. one is the state of the union. a message of which is not low comedy, it is high comedy. it is a demeaning experience for a self-respecting judge to go and sit there. pretend to be interested in what is going on. pretend to be detached from it. the other place they should not be seen is the red mass. the red mass -- when i grew up in nebraska, we used to talk about the fox in the chicken coop. going to the red mass is putting yourself in the chicken coop. when the priest gets up, he is the fox. he is very interested in consuming those who sit in the audience. [laughter] just to be a little bit moderate about that, there are two bank places where justices should make up

i took a quick perusal to the national catholic reporter to find catholics from grassroots parishioners to bishops were involved in immigration debates in one way or another for years. there were lots of stories about parishes in transition and how some of those went well. the loss of the old european immigrant now making a transition to latino parishes. there were a few stories where it was successful undated not limit the loss of their america. there were others then rather than had the parish over to the -- be shared, they just eft. what seems to be this interesting "new york times" article, they suggested that people are getting worn down by the issue. they are tired of immigration reform and immigrants in particular and they resign themselves to the fact that immigrants are here and they are not leaving. you are going to see a bit more moving of that needle towards reform for drivers licenses, reform for insurance, work laws, xhibit nature. what these stories suggest that when working in a gastric -- grassroots level, catholics will work on their own to implement. the catholic medi

moving on to the catholics. what catholics and lds and latino protestants of all stripes understand is that they can count. they can count how many latinos are in the churches. they can understand this trope of demography as destiny is coming to power. that is why the roman church has been traditionally supportive of immigration reform. trying to make its presence known in a strong way in this debate. i took a quick perusal through the national catholic reporter over the last few years. catholic churches with grassroots parishioners were involved in both four years. there were lots of stories about parishes in tradition -- transition. there was a few of those stories where it was successful. it did not lament the loss of their america. there were others where, rather than hand of the parish over they just left. what can you say? what seems to be this really interesting new york times article made mention of the fact that this is happening through the midwest and highway 35. they suggest that people are getting w

the catholic church for the salvation of everybody, catholic church is in interested in the welfare oferyone. the very few control the political and economic system to the detriment of the majority, the church should be standing with the defenseless poor majority because that is where jesus was, where the church should be. a very powerful signal. unblocking a process of sainthood for oscar romero together with this groundbreaking encyclical on ecology, will reposition the catholic church in a way that hasn't been seen for generations. and really will be a very powerful turning point. already through cuba and other initiatives like in the middle east that pope francis took last year, he is returned the catholic church the center of global politics. in many ways, the weight was under john paul ii. positioning the church and himself in those acts. >> and the significance of reinstating father must go to who had been suspended from clerical activities when he became a political leader nicaragua. he was among the sandinistas. this crippled a lot of liberation theology, the way the church ha

what it means you being a catholic.is why i said there are so many ways of being a catholic, just as there are so many ways of being a jew that it is more the social identity that you have or that social background that you have that affects how you vote much more than just a label. >> i think it is important to there is not a catholic seat on the board. there is not that there is a jewish seat on the board. justice ginsburg has said some of the justices that preceded us were jewish justices, and justice breyer and i are justices who happened to be jews, and, certainly, president george w. bush did not set out to put two catholics on the court. in fact, remember, he nominated an evangelical protestant, harriet miers, who did not make it, so i think it is much more that they look at the ideology of the person and their background then religion. >> i think there is an irony in that. for brennan, his catholicism was the main issue at his confirmation hearing. as marshall described, they asked him, if it comes to loyalty to

the way if angelical's used to think catholics were the -- the way evangelicals used to think catholicsere the whore of babylon. can i said it -- can i say that on tv? i think it is extreme to say it is proselytizing. >> there has never been a president inaugurated without a prayer. >> let me being extremist. they are two places in washington from which supreme court justices should stay away religiously. one is the state of the union. a message of which is not low comedy, it is high comedy. it is a demeaning experience for a self-respecting judge to go and sit there. pretend to be interested in what is going on. pretend to be detached from it. the other place they should not be seen is the red mass. the red mass -- when i grew up in nebraska, we used to talk about the fox in the chicken coop. going to the red masses putting yourself in the chicken coop. when the priest gets up, he is the fox. he is very interested in consuming those who sit in the audience. [laughter] just to be a little bit moderate about that, there are two bank places where justices should make up their minds that t

catholic doctrine. he has a certain -- he can easily say that because he is an originalist. he interprets the text of the constitution as it was believed or understood at the founding. many of the moral values at that time were also conservative values, so they would be impregnated, you might say, into the original understanding, if you believe in a living constitution, then, in a way, his morality views, they become more relevant, i think, so he can do it somewhat more easily than someone who believes in a living constitution or almost for the purposes of a constitution, where the moral views can more easily be embedded. now, whether one can actually live up to that is another story, but that, i think, is the general approach even with brennan, at his confirmation -- rather, his nomination hearings, and he had to say very clearly, i separate -- i made my peace. if it comes between the constitution and the church, in my public life i follow the constitution, and in my private life, i am a good catholic.

they don't think of how this all work, all of the catholic parishes working together and seeming to be on the same page and to take care of all of the practical challenges that come, especially in san francisco with retro fitting the schools and all that stuff. you guys are some of the main people that help make that happen so it is great to have a chance to speak with you to realize not only the importance of what you do but the reason why you do it. i want to start with you, you have spent many years teaching at fordham university. tell us about that experience. you made a decision to live in the student housing. >> first of all, tell what you throughout. >> i taught economics. i did a dock trait -- doctorate in economics. living in the resi hall is not unusual. you're supposed to interact with the students and you do things with them. that was always fun. i always enjoyed that. >> that was how many years you taught tlg there. >> i was there for 12 years and then i moved on to administration. i went to marquette university in milwaukee and then down to loyola university in chicago an

conference of catholic bishops, representing about 18 million catholics, and union of reform judaism,nd other jewish organizations. it's amazing what can be achieved when you have such a multiple denominations supporting and helping you to move forward. now, i told you that when we came here we had hardly say 10 or 15 islamic centers. today we have 3000 islamic centers. everepicenter has a story how ty were able to do, how they were able to be established. .. a way of anti-muslim sentiment in america. and that was the time when i remember i was getting letters of support from catholics,

he is a christian and a catholic. but he has also put heavy emphasis on how people of goodwill across religious lines ought to cooperate on making the world better. and he's opened up a really new kind of debate in the catholic church that you really haven't seen since the second vatican council and pope john xxiii. the closest thing to really open debate among bishops that you've seen in a long time. that makes some bishops uncomfortable. i think one of them said this looks a little protestant to him. but maybe it does look a little protestant, put it actually looks a lot like the second vatican council. these are issues that have been there for a long time. he seems to think servicing is the debate is better, and i agree, servicing the debate is better for the church than pretending it doesn't exist. >> but there were -- well, it was interesting for a lot of people to see that debate and to see top church leaders openly disagreeing on for example one of the big hot-button issues was whether catholics who are divorce

i'm a revert my catholic faith. i was involved with the political left in california for about four or five years a new jane fonda, tom hayden. you know, you don't like that? debut coloradans for like that i gave jane fonda adjoined in the back of the community center in hollywood because she said tom wouldn't let her keep it in the house during the campaign, to which i said fine effeminacy wire. [laughter] i know these people as people. or i used to. i don't hang out with jane fonda anymore. i know that there are many good people and they may not quite dead the point on why obamacare not only isn't functioning yet. it's probably functioning as well as is going to function because it isn't completely unrolled. but to help them understand a little bit about basic economics and why if you just went to a grocery store without any prices on anything, all the good meet would be taken first and there it be nothing left. it would be no way to coordinate the thing. that is the problem modeled with obamacare, but the health

on the level of the ground, the catholic church is tremendously suffering there and basically the catholics of mosul and iraq, they've, exiled, they're in turkey a turkey. it's a nightmare. >> father, why do you think the pope is so weak on this. i'm going to say it right out. for him not to be concerned about his flock, children chopped in half, what is that about? >> i think he is concerned but he's a man who wants to not get involved in military action. and as pope, i would say holy father, your sentiments are good but the reality requires military action. the holy seed does defend the just war doctrine. it's perfectly good for whatever powers of western powers russia to give arm to the iraqi government to fight isis. but it's a complicated question. the pope said we should have a dialogue. think that is no what is needed right now. >> that's absurd. with all due respect it's not a complicated question. you take care of your flock. >> he doesn't have troops at his command. >> he is a wealthy powerful man, you know that, father. >> true. but actually i was looking at the iraqi ambassador

and especially non-catholics. and, you know, had this great love for the poor, god's creation, nature, peace. and what we've seen is that he lives very radically, very simply, rather than some monarch prince or king or monarch pope. >> pelley: his most radical decision came on his second day. he toured his 16th century palace looking like a home buyer whose realtor just didn't get it. in here, he'd be kept behind a barrier of minders and schedulers. so, he chose freedom in a vatican hotel where he lives and dines with everyone else. his room, 201, is a key to the world. this leader of a billion catholics demands to be in touch. >> elisabetta pique: i knew that he would phone me, but i didn't expect that he phone me so quick. >> pelley: he phoned elisabetta pique 12 hours after his election. she's an old friend, an argentinean journalist, and her children were baptized by bergoglio. >> pique: and two days later was my birthday, and he phoned again. but, in that sense, we have here the scandal of normality because >

it was a catholic vietnamese web site. and -- but all of a sudden all of these light bulbs went off in my head, and when he was talking about interviewing her, he talked about seeing the eiffel tower from her kitchen window, and i knew there was an parent she went to after she left saigon, an apartment in paris, at the foot of the eiffel tower so i thought, maybe it's not so crazy, marsh she is become there. so i looked around paris for any tall buildings i could find around the eiffel tower, and there aren't that many. so i started knocking on doors very persistently, spoked to a concierge, she said, no, she's not here. she's next door. >> but that was not the end of it. of course -- i mean in some way, in the book, she is portrayed a little bit like marlene deitrick. won't talk to or see anyone, and you're story is about finding her, meeting her, and also trying to capture who she is. so, it was a long process of being in touch with her,. >> almost lake courtship. i tried to -- at first i tried to impress her and seem ve

♪ cbs and the catholic community foundation for eastern south dakota present: the 17th annual "christmast the cathedral" from the cathedral of st. joseph in sioux falls, south dakota. featuring tenor, scott piper, soprano marni raab, actor phil kappen and the christmas at the cathedral orchestra and choir under the direction of dan goeller. good evening and merry christmas! i'm bishop paul swain. on behalf of the 120,000 catholics in eastern south dakota, welcome to "christmas at the cathedral" our annual celebration of music and prayer from the cathedral of st. joseph in sioux falls. the theme for this year's program is "holy family," as we recall that night when love came down at christmas in the person of jesus christ.

you have got more than a billion catholics around the world.cyclical you have catholics around the world being told what the pope is saying. and from the front of the church. i mean, this is, i think something that could have a pretty significant impact to lay catholics. >> is it dangerous for him to be weighing in on political issues that are quite divisive right now. >> i think it could be. it depends on what happens after he issues this letter. everything tends to be tied to climate summit in paris. countries come together and work on a climate treaty. this will be a very interesting test of the pope's ability to sort of shape this global debated. does he actually have an impact? this will be an really interesting challenge. he showed with the u.s./cuba negotiations that he does have deafness or geopolitical matters. climate is hugely complicated. a lot of different interests involved. him stepping in shows that he is willing to take that risk. >> interesting, we've got a sound bite from someone on the left. a catholic who supports the idea

two catholic families, very much regimes, right? jfk and his family and ziem and and madam hnu, young, beautiful, glamorous, a jackie house. white frankofile, youm could say. andhen the diaries come out she's asked about madam hnu. oh, she's horrible. just everything that jack found just ugly. she wasn't submissive, she quiet. and jackie characterized her own arriage as an asian marriage whatever that means. she was subservient to her husband. the other irony is when gene was murdered, kennedy murdered not very long after. letever that his madam hnu sent. hnu felt betrayed by the americans and talk about that letter and the bitterness involved. >> sure. oh, goodness, where do i start? those who don't know, kennedy gave the okay for a coup n vietnam, a regime change in 1963. the coup didn't happen until november. no american officials would meet with her. that ly public official would meet with her is here in new york city because people her safety.tee people were throwing things at her. really slighted that here she was, first lady,

as a catholic, the senate reviews of the holy father. i was wondering if it was just trying to get over the jeb bushes ts of nomination. or not -- at is true i think there will be some, as time goes by, that they will decide about what they said. if someone will maybe -- you very brought together interesting group, an event held a group. if they would try and put some of the analysis on the of the church in cuba, in the united states, and in this new process. play d some small role to in this. i'd be interested to hear how this could be improved of the church might be more useful, in the important needs that you and the economy, and moving towards a new understanding of the embargo. >> thank you. let's take that one and then go back to alec. carlos, do you want to respond? >> yes. clearly we know from all the that the ouncements played an incredibly influential role. do not know if you've seen the cartoon is circulate around the internet -- when in argentina like you becomes the pope, and when an african-american becomes the united state

president obama tried to force the catholic nuns to obey his demands to provide birth control. the sisters believe they have to obey a higher power. plus we are number one. and guess what, we are now number two. that and more tonight on huckabee. (applause) and welcome to "huckabee". if you are one of the now people reading newspapers or watched television news this week, you thought the most important story was the reaction of the death of a petty street criminal and it was most reported but not close to a story that is rocking your world and you probably didn't feel the tremor. the international monetary fund revealed that china's economy surpassed that of the united states and now china is now the world's largest economy. they reported on this story and it could should have caused demonstrations in our streets. we are losing our country and no one seems to notice. less than 15 years ago, the u.s. economy was three types the size of china. and americans since 1945 have grown used to having the number one economy and must have taken it for granted. get ready to the new ranking

when you look at polling there's a disconnect between american catholics and the teaching of the catholichurch. american catholics tend to be more liberal. in a poll in 2014, 76% of catholics in america said abortions should be permitted in some circumstances. 59% supported women to the priesthood. what do you do about the disconnect? >> i think you explain it. women have extraordinary responsibility. >> they are not a cardinal? >> they are not a cardinal - you have to be a cardinal to be dressed this way, but not to work this way. >> is it fair to keep the women behind the scenes? >> no and i think the pope is looking at this way. he's name women in two posts, he's beyond that. he has named two women, he never had before. pope francis has not shied away addressing international and political issues. rather he has embraced them. >> what was your reaction when you found out pope francis had a hand in the new cuban relationship with the u.s. government? >> i was delighted. we have to find a new way to do it. the best way is to make friends. if you hang onto your angers the one you hurt the

so no somebody who brings respectability and is also a catholic touche challenge the church. that sex is good for marriage not just a reproduction and these people are on their own but they set out to do something that everybody tells them is impossible. >> host: above that catherine mccormack imported diaphragms from europe by selling them into dresses because it was illegal to bring them and. she was very creative with the tragic life because a husband was complete the schizophrenic and insane and she spent her life taking care of him but not until he died when she was in her '70's that she could invest in to the reproductive adventure. but the two women are both in their 70's. stock and plays such a major role. and actually wondered if use canted them a little bit? because that was the last decade of margaret sayers career that she was beginning to show a senile dementia but she was such an amazing force i want to just to say i was allowed but she was an old woman who loved sex but actually she was a major thinker of women's liberation a wonderful book and people should re

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and in catholics, it was 80%. it was bad, bad. the more people went to church, the morgue they believed in the death penalty. we have been educating the you know what other people, and they're getting there. it's educating the people. so the pope is great, but it's the people. when a pot boils come it's not just one big bubble, up in that pot. it starts with little be the bubbles down at the bottom and then the bubbles keep rising, light we are doing tonight. is what it's all about, and the same is true for the catholic church. >> one of the challenges with leadership is our political leaders have been intimidated into not being honest about a lot of these issues. you can find politicians of either party to they were each competing with each other to be tough on crime but you won't hear politicians even now use words like habilitation or restoration, redemption or correction when it comes to dealing with people in jail. we've had to change the political culture and make it safe for our leaders, church leaders, political leaders, c

. >> 1.2 plan roman catholics of celebrating christmas around the world.t may not be the leading religion in communist china, but that's not to say it is christian holy day isn't cell braided. we report from beijing. >> christmas mass is the most popular service in this thee hundred-year-old church. third and fourth generation catholics make it a point to come back here on this special day. >> we usually you fast on christmas eve and then after midnight all get together. the whole family has a big meal to celebrate the birth of jesus. >> christianity may not be the dominant religion in this country but is the fastest growing. >> it's not just christians who come to church. christmas attacks the non-believers, too, to treat the day as a festival, an opportunity to have something different. >> attending midnight mass is seen as the trendy thing to do. the service has become so popular, the church that to give out tickets a week in advance. many of the faithful preserve the day's service, a quieter time for celebration. for many, it's also a regular workday.

catholics gathered to celebrate the birth of jesus jes christ. the pope is delivering his christmas day message to the city and to the world. >> hours earlier at christmas eve mass, the holy father placed his own stamp on the christmas tradition, unveiling the baby jesus. said the birth every jesus showed the patience, closeness, and the tenderness of god. >> how much the worlds needs tender necessary today. life must be mets goodness, with meekness. when we realize god is in love with our smallness, to better encounter us. >> earlier the pope made a phonecall to iraqi christian refugees forced from that home by militants. compared that to the plight of infant jesus. >> ♪ >> in bethlehem, christ's birth place, christians gathered for midnight mass at the church of the nativity. the central manger square is decked out in white and yellow lights, you see on the screen, also a towering christmas tree. bands from around the world performed on stage singing christmas carols and original christmas rock ballads mostly in english. >> not all the noise ev

you mentioned one catholic university university in this book, catholic university of chile actually size wondering if you think none of the catholic universities are elite or you don't happen to know that domain or don't have the same kind of student body that yale or the ivy leagues have. >> guest: it's not that. i do mention a fair number of schools in the course of really talking about what students have written to me and what fellow professors have told me about things at their school but to a certain extent it's a bit arbitrary. it's not that i think the elite catholic universities of which georgetown notre dame d.c. clearly are among come it's not that i think things are radically different there because it's all one system. the main aspect of the system is the kind of students that are being produced before they even get to college. it's really about the admissions process -- you know i have a half a paragraph in the book where i say i think in some ways religious colleges and that would include the catholic universities do think better because they are still paying attention

and you, as you said, have been critical of the catholic church, and you have communicated with poperancis. >> i have, i think he's a great leader and i have hopes for him. and i communicated with pope john paul ii, and i found almost complete inflexion ability there. but i wrote pope francis a letter describing some of the issues in my book and asked him to help minimize the abuse of women and it girls. i didn't ask him to change the catholic position on women and priests, and he wrote me a very nice letter back, and he said that he was convinced that the future role of women in the catholic church needed to be strengthened and would be. >> the book is called, "a call to action." president carter, i hope that you come by and visit us on your 29th book. >>> coming up on this special edition of consider this freedom in the press, why they are calling president obama the greatest deterrent to press freedom. and many putting their lives on >> the stream, >> your digital community >> you pick the hot topics and express your thoughts the stream it's your chance to join the conversation on

i went to catholic school. i'm in the catholic. was more so to get a better education. >> i went to a check school because i am catholic. >> there are so many funding sources, it's doesn't cost much money to go to a check school. >> that's not true. >> there are clooep cheaper catholic schools. >> catholic school is a lot a. lot of kids can't afford to go to catholic schools. >> the bottom line is"plg taxpa money should be meant to fund that. there are private scholarship opportunities to fund that. we have to keep a separation of church and state and the taxpayer money should go twoshd the public schools. >> listen, i understand, there are people out there saying, listen, ial not there to have my taxpayer money go toward some kids who maybe got it, a bad hand dealt to them. its not my responsibility. my responsibility is for my child to attend school. does it matter at all this is supposedly a; voucher? >> i think that makes a big difference. the students are earning this opportunity and one thing to keep in mind about the cost is

the catholic church hasn't had much relationship with them. he is very much a charismatic catholic who knows evangelicals as well as i think there will be an important declaration in the coming years between catholics and evangelicals which will meant the rivalry between them. >> brown: "the great reformer" austin ivory. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: we turn again now to a country which has dominated headlines for much of the last year-- ukraine. while much has been reported about the overthrow of its former leader, new government, the annexation of crimea, and russian incursions into the country, tonight, special correspondent kira kay brings us a story on the less known battle that's happening in the former soviet republic, over religion. the story was produced in partnership with the bureau for international reporting. >> reporter: in the western ukrainian village of butyn sits a picturesque blue church. it has survived two world wars and the communist and atheist soviet union. now in 2014, with its nation gripped in war,

the catholic church is a dogmatic church. dogma is a good word in the catholic church.ere he's saying -- >> so this is a community of the faithful. >> yeah, but it's the solidarity of all believers. so his view is, the way you stop this persecution of christians is not simply to bash isis, which he did strongly, but call on other muslims to join in. this is frances, consistent with peace and love, but saying some lines have to be drawn and what isis is doing is over the top. >> jason, you think that's a strategy? include among your friends those who share religious faith who are not violent? >> i do think it's a strategy and i think it's shaped by his experience in argentina during the dirty war in the 1970s when the catholic country, deeply divided and under a fascist regime saw priests and nuns and people on the moderate left kidnapped and tortured. he used the phrase in turkey fratricidal religion, and i think what this man is doing, is trying in his own way is to build a philosophical coalition, if you will. i don't know how long it will take for something like that

you are catholic right? >>. no i was born catholic. i'm not a catholic anymore.it is very dangerous to mix politics and religion. >> i'm not mixing politics. i'm an ordinary citizen. i wrote the book. >> you are not ordinary citizen because you are suggesting. >> american citizen. >> born catholic, right? >> yes. >> in the catholic and christian religion there is god, right? >> yes. >> where do we get our talents from? where do we get our inspiration from? >> yes but to say. >> where do we get it from. are you a christian now. >> no. i'm not a christian. >> you are a nothing. but you understand the christian theology? >> of course. >> i believe in that, is that okay? >> of course. that's your own belief. >> so i believe in it i believe he that there is a god. an active god who inspires so when i was asked where i got the idea from killing jesus, i said i think i was inspired to write it by the holy spirit. you object to that? you object to me stating my religious beliefs as an american. >> that's your belief. but if you are suggesting that god talks to you and th

. >> reporter: catholics around the world are celebrating the birth of jesus christ today. in bethlehem, thousands attended midnight mass inside the church of the nativity where jesus christ was born. at the vatican, pope francis celebrated with a traditional mass at st. peter's basilica where the crowd spills into the square. [ non-english language ] >> reporter: he said, god's message of peace is stronger than darkness and corruption. that is the message of christmas night. a message even some noncatholics want to hear. >> i think that he has inspired many, many people not only me, i think many, many other peoples, as well. >> reporter: that message spread some 2,000 miles to the ancient catholic community in iraq a short distance from isis front lines where hundreds packed a church to hear a letter from the pope urging them to stay strong. >> reporter: in new york city, catholics gathered in st. patrick's cathedral. cardinal timothy dolan delivered the sermon calling for renewed faith in a city shaken by protests and the recent killing of two police officers. tara mergen

catholics in st. peters square and around the world await pope francis's traditional christmas message. we'll bring it to you here live. >>> the controversial film "the interview" gets its first outing in cinemas and online after a cyber attack and row over its release. >>> the u.s. military dismisses claims by islamic state militants that they shot down a jordanian war plane in syria. jordan confirms one of its pilots has been captured. >>> hello, and a very warm welcome. we begin with events in vatican city, where pope francis is due to deliver his annual christmas day message very shortly. we can show you now the scene live at st. peters square, where i understand hundreds of thousands of people have gathered. you can see them there. it's the pope's second christmas as pontiff. and his second message to the city and to the world. i think we can go live to our correspondent in rome, james reynolds. james, his speech is expected to continue the theme of empathy for refugees, which the pope highlighte