the philippines is asia's largest catholic nation and 80% of the its 100 million residents are catholic. the pope celebrated mass today in manila's cathedral after being greeted thursday by hundreds of thousands of cheering supporters who braved hours of sweltering heat to glimpse his motorcade. on saturday, he heads to tacloban, to have lunch with survivors of typhoon haiyan -- known as "typhoon yolanda" in the philippines. the pope commended the resilience of those who lived though the devastating superstorm. >> this is meant to express my closeness to our brothers and sisters who endured suffering loss, and devastation caused by typhoon yolanda. i admire the road strength faith, and resilience demonstrated by so many philippines in the face of the natural disaster and so many others. >> in 2013, the powerful typhoon left more than 7,300 dead and missing. it leveled entire villages in the central philippines, including leyte province, which the pope will visit saturday to console survivors. last month, pope francis announced his upcoming encyclical on the environment -- the first-ever

in albania, the catholic nuns helping victims of blood feuds, whereas in poland, one catholic priests a powerful local. in switzerland, the stolen children of buddhist tibet. but first, to albania where the biblical quotation and i for an eye, a to afford to, has terrible relevance today. the country is plagued by blood feuds, and ancient honor ritual. but brave catholic nuns are devoting their lives to help young boys who are suffering from the sins of the father. >> her mission is saving lives, but death is her constant companion. sister christina is at the cemetery in northern albania. the nun from a swiss order has often had to watch how people from her congregation have been murdered. victims of blood feuds like 22-year-old jin marku. >> he and his brother went out of the house and across the way to raise a few sheep. then the avenger came in shot him. i'm an morning, and once again, i been too late to stop death. >> most of the people whose lives she and her fellow nuns are defending come from this mountainous region. here, a mid-evil legal tradition regulates all of life. if a

the pedro pan archives were moved from miami's catholic archdiocese to barry university.on pedro pan group committed itself to trying to make contact with all of the more than 14,000 unaccompanied children who had come to the u.s. through operation pedro pan. as part of this new interest in the 1990's amongst pedro panists who are now parents and in some cases grandparents in preserving their memories of the exodus the cuban-american playwright began interviewing prominent exiles and leaders and participants in operation pedro pan, including monsignor walsh and jim baker. these, together with oral histories, are archived in the cuban living history collection housed here in the special collection. growing interest for operation pedro pan in miami also produced a ripple effect. interest grew on the island as well. in 1996, the revolutionary film producer, whose brother frank had left cuba as a pedro panist in 1963 when he was 10 years old, produced a documentary which consisted of a series of interviews with cuban-american women who had been pedro pan children. the documen

it's going to be very interesting because there are divisions among american catholics. there are some of the more conservative bishops who have openly expressed some unease with the direction that pope francis is taking. i doubt those will come to the surface when he's here. i expect everybody is going to welcome him. but it's sure going to be interesting to see how that unease on the right of the church is expressed. >> the thing to remember is, last october, 2014 we had this big raucous debate at the vatican over issues of the family and cohabitation and homosexuality. that was actually only round one. round two is coming up in october of 2015. and that's where the actual decisions may be made. now, as e.j. said, there's not going to be a change in teaching, necessarily. but how the church approaches gay and lesbian couples for example. that may -- there may be some there there come out of that meeting. so that will be i think a key thing to watch is how the church navigates this tricky line between holding to its teaching, because most catholics say the church can't

moving on to the catholics. what catholics and lds and latino protestants of all stripes understand is they can count. and they can count how many latinos are in the churches. and they can count and understand of this trope of demography of destiny iis actually coming to pass. this is why the catholic church has come historically, been very supportive of immigration reform. so what i did was i took a quick perusal through the national catholic reporter over the last few years to find the grassroots to the bishops who are involved in immigration debates for years. there are lots of stories about transitions, and how some of those would well. the loss of the old european immigrant now making smooth transition to latino parishes. there were a few of those stories where there was successfuland they did not lament the loss of their america. and there were others were comments of the pending their parish over, they just left. what can you say? what seems to be this really interesting article that made mention of the f

schools week. >> hundreds of catholics from across the globe will bring their traditions with them. >> we learn in school where he goes in a sense and how he sees it's country in a different way and the catholic faith in different countries. >> it has changed the way we as catholics view the world. >> on the day that the pope is in philadelphia students across the matcharchdiocese are off from school. annie mccormick, channel 6 "action news." >>> the 2015 philadelphia auto show is underway unofficially. mayor michael nutter took part in the ceremonial drive-in this afternoon this year's show featured 700 vehicles from 40 different car makers and it opened to the public on saturday please join ducis rogers and adam joseph and karen rogers and alicia vitarelli and melissa magee for a full preview of what you can see at this year's show, that is saturday night at 7:00 on channel 6. >>> this doesn't come as a complete surprise but there say change at the top for the phillies. >> david montgomery returns as chairman bill giles will now be the getting the title of chairman aemeritus but g

i think the catholic church. i am a cafeteria catholic. he is the real deal. take a little. leave a little behind. i would argue the catholic church gets victimized the most. >> didn't you think satire is a way to bring to light many key truths. >> truth in jest my parents said. in raising me. i think that is appropriate in this instance. >> i have seen you and you could be comedic. i have never seen you insult people. never seen a mean spirited thing out of you. i have seen it out of jon stewart, out of bill maher. a big difference, people like you and people like them. >> meaning? >> meaning they're mean. when you have jon stewart going on tv showing a naked woman with her legs spread and an emblem, picture of the holy family between her legs and they laugh at it and have a good time. he is not the friend of freedom. he is an enemy of freedom. off awe bill donahue, thank you. >> we'll be right back. >> thank you. >> thank you. data rolls forward to the next month. and we'll even get you started with 10gb of free 4g lte data. i'm sure you know what this meeting is about. ye

catholics believe that through ordination, you are transformed. it's a sacrament that changes your character. >> narrator: five years on and simone is disillusioned, jobless and living alone in an apartment borrowed from a friend: all the result of his decision to leave the church after his experiences of clerical life in rome. >> (translated): ordained in rome and living in a parish in rome, i became disillusioned because i saw that among priests, there were many contradictions-- a hunger for power, ambition. many priests, obviously not all of them, showed sexual hypocrisy. some priests were very promiscuous, and i saw that all that was not as i thought the clerical mission should be. >> narrator: at simone's ordination, pope benedict urged young priests to be the doormat of the faithful, to clean the souls of those who come in. but the hypocrisy he saw around him disturbed simone, and after a time of prayer and contemplation, he decided he wanted to live a normal life and go where his heart took him. >> (translated): when valentina appeared, i k

is he talking to catholic families who also happen to have larges families or catholics who are planning large families? who was he talking to? >> i think what he was talking about is responsible parenthood it was never a goal that catholics have large families and that they be open to life and not artificially contra september it. he said sometimes you need to limit the size of a family for a woman's health for economic reasons and even in that very controversial document from 1968 the so-called birth control document it says in there that catholics have a moral responsibility to limit the size of family to not have children under certain conditions. so it's kind of like a misunderstanding to say that is the church has said have as many children as you can. >> when he talked got bunny rabbits, do not producely rabbits, i guess the interpretation was, this very new pope who has a very modern way of thinking at least he'sablying to the catholic church a very modern way of thinking, that contraception is okay? >> no because in his explanation he said the church has always said that natural

the catholic church is against it.ccuse the catholic church of is discrimination if you are a liberal. if you guys are walking down the arab street in the middle east holding hands. they will wake up dead in the morning. >> they won't have hands to hold in iran they will be thrown in a dungeon. let's advance the story a little bit more. when the priest pedophilia stands broke as horrible as it was and everybody should know i am roman catholic getting that cardinal law booted out of this country. i led that charge against that man because it was just outrageous what they were doing. i read nowhere gee, you know the good catholics are getting tarnished by. this we have to stick up for the good catholics, the sincere people who followed jesus. but you didn't get any of that. >> so shear a theory. okay tell me what you think of this theory. the media we know they have a liberal bias but it isn't play tant most of the time. they can't come out and say look, we're for abortion rights and we are for gay marriage and we are fo

for the catholics in the philippine who is don't feel as close to the catholic church as they have becausehe church is so conservative. they feel pope francis imbodies that inclusion and acceptance. he is a pope for the people. that is what the people take away from his visit here. he is with them. >> and his humility there on display for several days. anna we'll be in touch with you as we wait for the pope to go down and greet some of the faithful. thank you. as we have been talking, weather played quite a role in the visit. a typhoon, thankfully downgraded to a tropical storm. it cut the visit short. we have been following this for a couple days now. what happened in the path of the storm that made it not quite as difficult of a situation as we thought yesterday? >> it interacted with a land mass across the region. it didn't have the moisture to allow for strengthening to take place after it reached the islands. i love the quote anna has been paraphrasing for the past hour or so that the filipinos faith is waterproof. it truly is. this is serious devotion. people braving elements just to

we seek your approval for catholic charities located in the district of san francisco. this proposal is for funding augment services and increase staffing. other proposed changes, catholic charity ises looking to increase the program manager from 1.10 to 1.16. the purpose for this is to increase her on site presence inthe program and to address the needs of the seniors coming into the sight. if there are needs that can't be met in the community services program then the program supervisor can refer those people to case management program at catholic charities. they are looking to hire a bilingual program assistant. ideally this individual will speak cantonese, or mandarin. they've seen about a 5% increase in the filipino population. this individual would provide social services and translation services to people who came into the center. so catholic charities community services site also has sf connected computer lab where they have classes for seniors. they're looking to get reconnected to first train staff and volunteers at the center to provide classes for seniors an

be catholic.orrespondent watching the event and having followed the pope's tour of the country is harry fawcett he's watching these events with us, so this is the culmination harry of the pope's six-day tour of asia? >> reporter: that's right. this is the last event and by far and away the biggest. despite the pretty unpleasant weather that there has been here in manila throughout sunday as a result of tropical storm getting this -- kept this capital city well and truly wet. and those out in the streets waiting for the pope for many, many hours since the small hours of this morning in many cases some even camped out overnight. it really hasn't dampened the at miss fear at all. when pope francis arrived about 20 minutes ago, there was a repeated chant of papa francisco, which means pope francis love from the philippines, they were led the crowd in that chant. and then there were a few moments of quiet before the mass that you can now see getting underway and pope francis beginning to lead this. if

the read of the roman catholic church cattonized the country's first catholic saint at the ceremony.rter: more than half a million sri lankans joined in prayer with pope francis. many camped overnight with extended families for what they described as the biggest day of their lives. teresa travelled to the capitol from the south. >> translator: i have never had a chance like this and it's a privilege to be here. >> reporter: the mass also drew worshippers from further afield like this couple from india. for hundreds of thousands of people who attended mass here it was a chance of a lifetime. to see the head of the catholic church and be blessed by him. pope francis is here to cantonnize the 17th century catholic missionary. he worked to revive the church under persecution by the dutch call lolizers. over 1,700 priests took part in the mass. the 78-year-old pontiff said reconciliation is important in a country struggling to come to terms with the end of almost 30 of civil war. >> not in discrimination hatred and violence but in respect for the sacredness of life respect for the dignity

pope francis is here to canonize a 17th century catholic missionary joseph voss. was persecuted by the dutch colonizers. over 1,700 priests took part in the mass. the 78-year-old pontiff dubbed the people's pope said that reconciliation is important for a country struggling to come to terms in the end of 30 years of civil war. >> respect for the dignity and freedom of others and commitment to the welfare of all. >> catholics are a minority in sri lanka. they hope that good will be created by the first papal visit in 30 years to unite people of all faiths in what is a deeply divided country. >> there is more news on all the toys we're covering on our website at www.aljazeera.com. you can also watch us by watching live icon. that's al jazeera. the ghosts of men and women fill the wards of government hospitals across india. they stare silently - suspended in limbo between the living and the dead. these patients are the infected - victims of a contagion so lethal it kills almost one and a

and the country have kicked off catholic schools week today. the prish ners e -- parishners of saint moornts church celebrated today. this year's theme is catholic schools community of faith knowledge and service. >>> there's much more to come on "action news" this noon, next the pennsylvania ballet is set to perform a legendary story from a renown choreograph. >>> taking a live look now sky6 live hd over philadelphia international airport mealings chris sowers returns with the full accuweather forecast and all the details of the 1-2 punch with snow coming up when we come back. >> sections of new york state have been hit with several inches of snow. much. state has been hit with snow, sleet and rain that caused traffic problems. the area is bracing for more snow and blizzard-like conditions in the next several days. the same storm left a slushy coating in pittsburgh. areas around pittsburgh ended up with # # inches of -- 8 inches of snow. if you go on twitter the hash tag it's like the polar vortex of last year. bomogenesis it's a rapid intensi

it's the third largest catholic country in the world. 80 million are spicted to be catholic. the pope got off the plane in the last few minutes, was welcomed bit the president aquino and there are tens of thousands lining the streets for the relatively straight forward, it was thought dry from the vatican's embassy in the philippines. and there'll be hundreds of thousands on the streets. he'll proceed from a mass murder cathedral to another engaged meeting families at a mall arena on sunday. that's the big day on the visit in manila where an open-air mass - records will be broken - more than 5 million that turned out in 1995. they are talking nearly 6 million people. the emotional heart will be on saturday where he visits tacloban and paulo the region hit by the typhoon, with the deaths of more than 7,000 people. they'll open a center for the poor in his name and be speaking about climate change. two dates for the organizers. first security on the life of another pope. on philippines in the past. this is what it's like to get up close and personal. also another headache is th

this is a deeply catholic country. some 80 million people in the philippines are catholic. they watch the pope say mass and he paid tribute to the strength and resilience of the people in the philippines in dealing with the aftermath of the typhoon that destroyed much of the region in 2013. >> he loves filipinos and he knows that filipinos love christ more than anything else. >> but the pope hasn't shied away from social issues either. he's spoken of the need for the church to counter the causes of deeply rooted inequality. he said that they mar the faith of philippine society. and he said that political leaders as well must have honesty, integrity, and commitment to the common good. >> we are so happy that the pope is here. >> reporter: the pope's comments on the limits of free speech made on his journey to the philippines haven't been picked up as widely here as they have been in paris, where the city is still dealing with the aftermath of the killings. but here all eyes will be on the pope when he visits cat la bann tomorrow to visit people who survived the typhoon, and

after all i married my wife, who's jewish, and she married me, who's catholic we respect each other'sigion and i feel like, i don't know, i feel like i'm part jewish just because our family does these things together and i really don't think that there is a wrong way to do it. >> reporter: hailey, 7, is the youngest of the schombs children. >> i think i will stay both religions. >> reporter: why do you think so? >> they are both really fun and it's just really hard to choose. >> reporter: evan is 9. >> i think i will probably stay both because when i'm older i think i want my kids to feel the same way i do, like celebrating both holidays. >> i think that it would have been really easy as an interfaith couple to make a decision not to do anything as we raised our children because then we wouldn't have all these hurdles that we had to overcome, but for both of us, we felt that religion was important. we both felt that it was important to have a place in your heart to go to in times of sorrow, or in times when you felt you need prayer. >> reporter: as more and more families choose to rai

because, of course the vast majority of filipinos are both catholic and devout catholic and absolutelyme the pope and are delighted to see the pope. there are a small minority of people here who are not welcoming of the pope. in particular there are some extremist groups in the flooebs philippines. one in particular. a muslimist extremist group in the south of the country, which has sworn allegiance to islamic states. so it is a potential threat. there have been plots against popes on previous incidents here. a bomb plot that has foiled against pope john paul ii in the mid1990s. so of course because of that security is the highest importance here with these massive crowds it's going to be very, very difficult. having said that i found it very, very easy to walk right through the crowd, through the police line and on to the front row, as the pope went past me this evening, with just my media pass on. so you know, i'm not quite sure exactly how tight security is. >> that's rupert wingfield-hayes. i want to take you to briefly to paris, the mayor of montoya, and the reason he's on his fee

it is called, catholic legislative network. vicki, can you tell us about that? >> the california catholic conference of bishops put together this legislative network so that everyone out there can be notified when there are important pro-life issues or about other issues coming up in the california legislature or at the federal government level. and it is a matter of getting everyone's e-mail address and sending them bullet times when there is something of importance that comes up. >> and there is a way to register. >> you can go to the california catholic website which is ca catholic.org. you can register their for the weekly bulletins and the special bulletins. >> so that is kind of a pro-life church google alert? >> [ laughter ] it sort of is. we know that if we can get everyone together, we will have a large voice in the legislative process. more than one or two people. >> and you have a big push for this, this year. people responded, did they? >> yes. we asked that the parishes find out people. i'm not sure what the numbers were in the san francisco archdio

he was born as a girl in spain and raised as a devout catholic. but after his sex change operation eight years ago many people scorned him in church here in his hometown and he stayed away from mass. i've never lost faith ever he says but the other thing is the rejection. seeking answers he wrote to the pope last year and says his local bishop helped get the letter noticed. next according to him, came two phone calls from pope francis and a discreet audience on a saturday evening at the papal residence, cassia st. marta. vatican spokesman decline to confirm or deny the meeting insisting the pope's private agenda is private. this man loves the whole world, he says. i think there's not in his head in his way of thinking discrimination against anyone. i'm speaking about him, not the institution. but church doctrine says s. change procedures do not change a person's gender in the eyes of the church or in church birth records. diego naria, a civil servant, says he is not ab activist for transgender people and doesn't expect changes overnight. but if th

i worked for catholic charities 14 years last month. i am currently stationed at treasure island and the increase the redevelopment and housing here in san francisco and those folks that need to be housed. there are challenges, the main challenges for keeping people housed. we think once we give them housing it solves all life's problems so we need to explore what it means to put someone in housing and keep them in housing. i am fortunate to say that my team on treasure island has about a 98% occupancy rating so we do well out there and i have 34 units in town and it's about the same so i like to continue my work with the local board, and i am open to any questions. >> okay. no questions. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next person is dan bowersox and i believe he withdraw his application so gary lewis are you here? >> hi. good afternoon members of the board. first i would like to thank you for inviting me to come down again and put myself forward for a position on the local homeless coordinating board. i come to this with -- m

millions of catholics are expected to happen. cnn has a look at some of boko haram children. we want to welcome our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i'm paula newton. raids across western europe is exposing a network of extremism. authorities arrested 17 people in connection with the terror raid in belgium. they released most of them later. three remain in custody. a counterterrorism source says it two militants killed and the one who was arrested has links to isis and other terror cells. cnn senior international correspondent ivan watson is in brussels. in belgium and with the authorities, do they have a sense, still, that the threat is imminent and they are standing by waiting to see if any of these cells remain active? >> reporter: they are certainly on alert and we witnessed that here in brussels seeing soldiers members of the armed forces here deploying in brussels guarding outside the jewish museum which is a few blocks from where i am standing right now. reports that troops are being deployed in antwerp as well. that's a sign of how seriously the authorities a

eight out of 10 filipinos are roman catholic. many waited hours to see their pope drive by. >> i did not see him much, but knowing he is here in the area, it is really great to see the pope. >> it will inspire a lot of good people. through this experience, i think it will be a challenge for us. >> en route to manila, pope francis called for greater tolerance different faiths. as the world reacts to the mohammed cartoon from "charlie hebdo" france said even freedom of expression has its limits. >> a great friend of mine says something to offend my mother -- he's going to get punched. that's normal. completely normal. because you should not challenge, insult, or ridicule the beliefs of others. >> but he insisted that people should not kill in the name of religion. francis has a busy schedule in the philippines. after manila he travels to the region devastated by the recent typhoonhaiyan. on sunday, an open mass for 6 million people, hailed as the largest ever by the catholic church. >> saudi arabia's courts sentence of flogging to

>> in a lot of countries you can find a catholic congregation catholic errors that is -- parish that is extremely accommodating to you. in other areas of the country, that's harder. i don't know what to say to people in those areas. maybe go to an episcopal church. a person's relationship with god is his or her relationship with god. i don't think any cleric or any church can pervert or govern that utterly. i think you can always find ways, and in some cases, should, to worship your god and have a relationship with your god that is not mediated or compromised by rules you don't believe in. >> let me go back to your experience as a food critic for a second. >> that's an interesting transition. >> i know. [laughter] >> from saints to soufflÉ. [indiscernible] >> when you got asked to serve as a food critic, having had your own complicated relationship with food and having written a book about it did you hesitate taking the job? there is probably equivalent challenges the reporters would have being assigned to a job like that. how did it strike you viscerally and intellectually when you

the pontiff has a way with words that well can be kind of shocking to a catholic myself.eady for it pope francis said catholics must not breed like rabbits. really? because my catholic faith taught me to have as many children as possible and no birth control except for the rhythm method and we all know how well that works. while the pope was in the philippines, he met children abandoned because their parents could not afford to care for them. in fact he met a woman who was expecting her eighth child and called her irresponsible. and then on the plane ride open the pope sounded off on birth control in quite an un-popelike way. >> translator: something that in order to be good catholics we have to be like rabbits. no. responsible paternity, that is clear. >> father edward beck a cnn religion analyst. welcome, father. can't wait to talk to you about this. >> me too. >> so "i know what the pope means, i think. contraception and family planning are fine but the subliminal messages are, a, that catholics have a reputation for breeding like rabbits, and b, birth control is okay.

the pope says instead catholics should practice responsible parenting. the pope made his comments to reporters on the way home from the philippines where a record crowd of 6 million turned out for his final mass on sunday. the comments come ahead of the pope's trip to the united states this fall for the world meeting of families. the pope will visit philadelphia, washington, and new york. according to polls in the u.s., the majority of catholics here believe that artificial contraception is morally acceptable, but the pope said there are plenty of natural ways to regulate birth that have the church's approval. >> i think they need to get with the time. >> i think it may tend to make people not as interested in the church because they feel the pope's position is too unyielding in the face of the realities of today. >> the pope warned against insidious attacks against the family, a reference to gain marriage proposals. it's the same language conservative -- a more conservative tone ahead of his trip to america. >> now the pope also blasted what he called i

i am catholic and i grew up catholic and went to catholic school and i have the scars to bear it and to this day if i see a ruler i have flash backs. wisdom from the priests and rabbis -- not rabbis, but bishops, cardinals, the pope these are men who have a vow of celibacy and they are telling us how to treat women. i just think it is so wrong on so many levels and he has to sit there and tell you how to treat women and respect your wife, yet he has to stay as far away from women as possible by his own vow. that's why i think it is weird. >> can i defend the catholic church on that? >> sure. >> i feel funny. the people who came up with pre-marital counseling that is used now all over the world are priests. i don't know, for example would you rather go for marital therapy -- and this is not the celibacy issue but would you rather go for mare raw tall therapy any of you to a therapist who was divorced and now had a good marriage or one who had a good marriage their whole life? >> a good marriage their whole life? >> right. >> and married to god. >> no, i am talking -- >> find one that

c-span: a catholic priest. >> guest: a catholic priest. he was the third guy. and as a matter of fact, i had some of my staffers who actually went through his program. and as a matter of fact, o`brien was scheduled to marry one of my people at one time. and so, you know, we decided to take all those -- but when tom bliley gave me the list, he had it ranked one, two, three. and i said tom, i want this without prejudice. i mean, just give me three names. i gave the list back to him, and he gave me the same three names back, only unranked. and so we went through the process. and it was interesting because the fellow from the swedish covenant -- i don`t even remember the fellow`s name -- but he had a good interview. but from my point of view and my impression, it wasn`t anything outstanding. and tim o`brien, i think, was one of the next guys we had. and in our conversation and interview with him he said something -- he said, you know i`ve been a scholar and worked with these kids and worked around congress a good deal of my life. and he said, i would really like to

. >>> a pope generally applauded for his stance tenor and tone on many issues is calling for catholics to use common sense and not quote breed like rabbits. more on the statement that raised some eyebrows. >> reporter: pope francis is making head lines yet again this time for remarks he made regarding the size of catholic families which he says can be regulated within the guidelines that prohibit using artificial birth control. >> translator: some think that in order to be good catholics we have to be like rabbits. >> reporter: catholics for choice that opposes the teachings on birth control and abortion called the comments troubling adding the stereotype of catholic rabbit breeding is an insult for those who choose to ignore some other person's judgment on the right number of children to have. pope francis should respect and defend our rights and not deny them. executive director of priest for life says she believes the pope is speaking more freely but acknowledges that can open him up to more criticism. >> unfortunately, people want the church's teachings to change. what has to chang