listen up, catholic church. do not mess with the liturgy.t is the infallible word of god which was translated from the latin which was translated from the greek which was translated from the aramaic which, of course, was translated from the original english. (laughter) besides, do you know how long it took me to memorize all these prayers? it was harder than memorizing "we didn't start the fire." (laughter) "our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name, they kingdom come, thy will be done, einstein, james dean, brooklyn's got a winning team, elvis presley disney land... amen! and get this out. get a load of the so-called improvements. the new nicene creed. the 1700-year-old profession of what all catholics must believe has been tweaked. it now describes jesus not as the understandable one in being with the father but as consubstantial with the father. really? consubstantial? what the hell does that mean? (laughter) we're trying to get into heaven here, not take the s.a.t.s. (laughter) and for the record... (cheers and applause) and for

>> are you an evangelical who has always had nagging questions about the catholic church that you never have been able to get answered, or a catholic that has had doubts or questions? today on significant insights, father dimitri sala is going to answer your questions on our live show coming it right now on "significant insights." ♪ hello, and welcome to significant insights. i'm jerry rose and i want to remind you that our prayer line is open all through the hour as always, don't hesitate to call (888)235-9907. and one of our care force volunteers will be waiting at the other end of the line to pray with you. my wife shirley is with me on the program. i almost forgot. she's kicking me. >> i wanted him to acknowledge me! >> she was kicking me on the leg, saying don't forget me! [laughter] as i mentioned at the top of the program tonight, we're going to take questions, your questions on dog rollcism. our guest is father dimitri sala, involved in a ministry. he was with us in july and we opened the phone lines for questions. then it took a while for viewers to call in, and then just as th

tens of thousands of children have suffered sexual abuse in dutch catholic churches because officials failed to adequately deal with the allegations. they received thousands. from the hague is anna. throorts take us right back to the end of the second world war, pretty shocking reading. >> yes. this report carried out independently estimated 20% of the children who spent some of their life in catholic institutions suffered some form of abuse. many happening at catholic schools and sem narrows. and thost discover what exactly went on in those institutions and what kind of justice should be offered to the institutions. >> at this stage, how much recognition has been made of the catholic church of these sorts of abuses. >> well, they agreed to the fact that it was necessary for victims and we had a kind of a scale depending on how serious the abuse was so from conversations to rising to a maximum of $130,000 depending on the nature of the abuse. and it's a really significant thing here, because our percentage of the world commitment is being claimed as being come pliss -- come accomplish

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

is the catholic church in decline or is it on the rise. >> i think we have turned a bend and right now are seeing so much new energy, the spirit at work in the church. we are seeing that especially on our young adults and there is a whole new reevaluation and reappreciation of the church and of her message and that's what the new evangelization is all about. and look around and to share the great gift of faith. with people who should be with us and maybe once thought of themselves as our family and simply drifted away. you were named a cardinal of the catholic church and enormous honor for you and the diocese last yearr. there is reports that the pope who is 84 years old is in decline and showing signs of decline and too tired to meet with visiting bishops. first of all, how is the holy father's health? and secondly do you think it is possible as he raised if his health might decline he might voluntarily step down which hasn't happened since the 1400's. >> i looked at our holy father and i was there a month ago. i am just always so -- so grateful that he has the energy he does. i look

the catholic church took some responsibility for what happened. >> i feel deeply touched and affected by what is in the report. it is terrible. >> the group represents the victims have called for justice for all those affected. >> what is in really important is what the next couple be by the bishops. they have postponed their actions. for now, there is no excuse to postpone any help for the victims. >> they have begun to issue payments. last month, they set up a special compensation system that would award up to $130,000 to the victims depending on the abuse they suffered. now begins the painful process of rebuilding the reputation of the catholic church in the netherlands and beyond. >> the u.s. government has released the list of most of the economic sanctions against muammar gaddafi. the transitional government is trying to promote national unity. that message is not getting through in some areas where communities that used to support muammar gaddafi are becoming -- are coming under fire. this is the case in >> sign posts have been raised by militiamen who would like to see this pl

. >> reporter: charred and smolders vehicles filled a church outside a roman catholic church in nigeria where a bomb exploded christmas day, the box after christmas mass, and a radical mus muslim secretary claimed responsibility. this attack near the nation's capital was the deadliest. and almost three dozen were killed. and more than 50 injured. >> you can see so many families gone. households, the whole household, gone. >> reporter: nigerian authorities carried some of the dead away in body bags. officials in the country acknowledge they had difficulty at first getting help to the victims. the white house has issued a statement calling the attacks senseless and tragic and says u.s. officials have contacted nigerian authorities to offer assistance in catching the killer. the extremist group boko haram claimed responsibility for the bombings and want islamic law implemented across the country. local christian residents expressed their outrage. the death toll could have been even higher. authorities caught at least one man who they say was armed with a bomb that never went off. d

gingrich writes regularly about his love of the catholic church and a member of the catholic church.n as a member of the church. which is what he believes. >> the church has gone through dramatic change, but taking a look at the personal life of newt gingrich and marriages and the way he speaks about the poor of our great nation, i suspect he's once again deviated from the written word of the catholic church, but i'll leave that up to the catholic church. after all they speak to me about abortion. they are very concerned about same-sex marriage. let's see where my church is on the question of the leader of the united states of america. i'm certain this provocation will cause them to have some comment, at least i hope so. >> can i just play something to you of mr. gingrich talking in june about having the guts to go around neighborhoods. just listen to this. >> we have to have the courage to walk into that neighborhood, to talk to that preacher, to visit that small business, to talk to that mother. we have to have a convincing case that we actually know how to create jobs. >> there he

the catholic church has worked for interfaith dialogue with christians and nonchristians. and after vatican ii, the main line protestant groups were excited about the changes. they adopted our idea. they appreciated the changes that we made to the readings and they also adopted a lot of our prayers. if you walk no a lot of churches they made changes too. at first they were a little up set. we changed to match you and now you're changing without letting us know and i don't know if we want to make the same changes. they feel we've gotten out of sync. we did not understand the impact it would have the fact that you can walk into other churches and say the same prayers that is upsetting to some people. but many of our orthodox brothers and sisters are excited with the changes because we have become more in line with what they say in the orthodox church, particular whether i they pray over the bread. we changed some of our words to line up more with the orthodox church. so they're saying, thank you, now we're more in synch with the orthodox. it can cause hurt feelings and confu

i turned on the tv and every channel i flipped it on showed the catholic church on fire. >> fingerprints a church wine bottle led the police to him. despite his claims of innocence, abbott says he took a plea deal to avoid testifying against his friends and being labeled a snitch. >> going to prison having a snitch name is like having a child molestation name. you just don't have it. they don't last long here. i wouldn't want to have the name snitch. i can't do it. >> abbott's not alone in his claim that he is serving time only because he didn't want to snitch on someone else. burks admitted to being in the car in a drive-by shooting. but he says he wasn't the trigger man. >> there's no award you get for not snitching. but i've done plenty of things in my life that would eventually lead me here or dead, you know what i mean? i believe god is punishing me now for everything that i did, in fact, do. so i'm just taking this time to learn from all the mistakes and right all those wrongs. >> burks is serving a 55-year sentence for the murder of a south african immigrant. >> he came to america

don't like it. >> my name is laurie. >> neez parishioners at saint e dna's church got a crash course on the changes in the catholicass. >> i don't want you to think of this as, oh, great, come advent, i'm going to walk in the church and the communion rail is going to be back and ladies are going to have to wear kleenex on their heads and oh me, oh my. that is not what is happening here. >> what has happened is that the words to some of the prayers and music these people have known for the past 40 years have changed. it's the most significant retooling of the mass since 1973 when it went from latin to english. >> we wanted to make it simple for the people to understand. so we didn't stay true to the actual latin translation. we wanted to find words that people felt comfortable with. well, now you're comfortable. 40 years later, you're comfortable. now we're going to try to make you uncomfortable by going back to where it should have been, all right. >> the vatican says the mass is now more, authentic. more accurately reflecting the meaning of the original latin. >> will the changing of this frequently used dialogue

while the catholic church plays a significant role in caring for people with hiv aids it's also been accused of contributing to the crisis because of its opposition to condoms during a trip to africa in two thousand and nine pope benedict the sixteenth so condoms could make the hiv epidemic worse a year later however the pull out in the light of the world of the use of condoms can be justified in very limited circumstances he came up with the example of a male prostitute using a condom to use every sperm infraction to aids activists the phrase appeared to be a turning point in the churches attitudes and though though the vatican eventually issued a definitive ruling saying that paul patton changed church teaching activists felt the door to greater dialogue was opened this event you can hosted a conference on the global fight against aids the meeting was said to be partly prompted by confusion over the pope's comments on condom use and ha the program. and while the church is officials made little in the way of new concessions at the conference they demonstrated i read in a stew this p

is the catholic church at the moment in decline or on the rise? hink we have turned a bend and right now, we're seeing so much new manager. the spirit at work in the church. we're seeing that especially among our young adults. there's a whole new re-evaluation, reappreciation of the church, of her message and i think that's what the new evangilization is all about. encouraging all of us to look around and to share the great gift of faith with people who should be with us who maybe once thought of themselves as part of our family but have simply drifted away. >> you were named a cardinal of the catholic church, an enormous honor for you and for this whole archdiocese last year. there have been reports recently that the pope who is 84 years old is in decline, showing signs of decline, that he's too tired, for instance, to meet with visiting bishops. first of all, how is the holy father's health and secondly, you would think it's possible as he raised in a recent interview that if his health were declined further, he might voluntarily step down which

the bosnian croats study on the right-hand side, which was recently renovated by the catholic church.h owns the entire building. the muslim side is in disrepair, and many of them believe the catholics want to get rid of it entirely. >> we do not even have the same start time, breaks, or end times in school. they do that so we do not have a chance to get to know each other or even fall in love. it is not politically acceptable. >> there are in around 50 of these divided schools in all of bosnia, all in regions as saw brando -- bitter and brutal fighting during the war. for their part, the bosnian croat side says there's good reason their children have an advantage at school. the croat school headmaster here tells us that the catholic church and neglect the muslim children because bosnian muslims were especially quarreled during the war. -- cruel during the war. he says this church was used for physical education crisis. >> now, even though we finally have the charge back, they continue to illegally use their half for school. i want to reiterate that we have nothing against the kids. th

at least 25 people are dead in explosions at two catholic churches in nigeria.ct now claiming responsibility for the christmas day attacks. the explosions rocking nigeria's capital city and a smaller city nearby. it was just a year ago that more than 30 people were killed in a strippi string of christmas eve bombings there. we'll have a live report from our fox news terrorism analyst. >> we have a tragic story to tell you about this morning. a california soldier who's home from afghanistan was shot at his own homecoming party. christopher sullivan thankfully did survive but he is now paralyzed. family members say sullivan's brother had an argument with another man at the party over a football. when christopher did try to break it up, someone they say shot him twice and ran away. the gunman is still at large. >> i want anybody who knows anything to please call the police. are you guys are really his friends, don't turn your back on him now. he really, really needs you guys. >> sullivan was at home on leave from -- recovering from injuries that he sustained in the

joseph university in philadelphia is a leading historian in the catholic church. >> a purpose of thecryphal gospel was to provide the details that christians wandered about the lives of jesus, mary and joseph. >> the story in the apocryphal about a young jesus were popular and treated like dime store books. >> an interesting book is the story of thomas which is maive louse -- which is marvelous like what it is for god to be a child. he started off poorly and then knocks him down. >> and another story is an in competent carpenter who is jesus. >> at the end his heart and wisdom is under control and ready to use it for good. >> why are the lives of mary and joe self hidden in mystery? joseph disappears after the christmas story. leaving early christians free to depict him as they please. >> christian art shows joseph portrayed as older gentleman. >> a former priest teaches religion at new york university to christians, muslims, and jews. >> joseph is written out of the story to preserve the virginity, and mary continued to be a virgin after the birth of jesus which means you cannot hav

as duarte geraldino reports, most of the victims died when a bomb exploded right outside a catholic church>> reporter: charred and smoldering vehicles filled the street outside a roman catholic church in nigeria where a bomb exploded on christmas day. the explosion targeted worshipers who had just celebrated christmas mass. a radical muslim sect claimed responsibility for a series of coordinated attacks on the country. and terrorist bombs, churches and the government security building and this attack near the nation's capital were the deadliest. almost throw dozen killed. more than 50 injured. >> you can see so many families, gone. households, the whole household, gone. >> nigeria authorities carried some of the dead away in body bags. officials in the country acknowledge they had difficulty at first getting help to the victims. the white house issued a statement calling the attacks senseless and tragic. and also says u.s. officials have contacted nigerian authorities to offer assistance in catching the killers. the extremists were boko haram, claimed responsibility for the bombing they wa

most who died were on the steps of a catholic church celebrating christmas mass.te house has condemned the attacks and called the bombings senseless. >>> fishermen have joined search efforts after dead ly flooding n the philippines. search teams say they've retrieved bodies as far away as 60 miles from coastal cities. the flooding left more than 65,000 people in refugee camps. officials believe it will take three to six months to construct temporary housing and restore normalcy to the area. >>> the week between christmas and new year's is typically a relaxed one unless you work for aaa. the organization is expected to assist 800,000 motorists during the final week of the year, and that includes retrieving more than 100,000 sets of keys for locked cars. towing is the service used most often followed by jump starts or replacing dead batteriebatterie. >>> the next time you're trying to send a text while driving, what if there was a device that banned you from texting behind the wheel? now there is. it's called cell control. it plugs into your car's diagnostic plug an

most of the victims were killed outside a catholic church just after christmas mass had ended. the white house is condemning the attack. >>> a texas community is in mourning after it appears someone snapped at a family christmas gathering. police found the bodies of seven relatives, four women and three men inside the apartment, all shot to death. investigators believe one of the dead is the gunman. >>> prince phillip is spending the holidays at a london hospital. he missed the celebration after doctors performed surgery to remove a blockage from his artery. royal family including prince william and prince harry visited prince phillip yesterday. >>> well, he was a fixture on all three redskins super bowl teams and now long-time assistant coach has been given the honor usually reserved for the greatest washington player. that story ahead at 5:50. at 5:36, president obama got more than he bargained for when he greets a military baby. you don't want to miss this. at 5:14, we're ending 2011 on a mild note in the seven-day forecast. olga is in for howard. she'll explain. keep it her

unfortunately, the catholic church has gone through this as well. very kind of sexual -- of criminal allegations and the institutional neglect. what lessons do you think the church learned that other institutions have to also learn painfully? >> i think, i'd say three. number one we've learned that we have to make sure that we are absolutely open and putting everything on the table. and that when there is a problem, we handle it, we handle it according to law, we handle it according to the canon law. it's all in there. it's all in there. if we just did what our cannon law tells us to do, we wouldn't have these problems. but sometimes we allow, and i think one thing is important to say. when these problems first surfaced, the only area that we had to find the answer was psychology, was these therapeutic agencies. they're the ones we will for how can we help this person not to do this again? how can we help this person not to be involved in these things? how can we cure them? and the therapeutic agency said, oh, we can do it for you. they were wrong.

. >> reporter: charred and smolders vehicles filled the street outside a roman catholic church in nigeria where a bomb exploded on christmas day. the explosion targeted worshipers who had just celebrated christmas mass. a radical muslim sect claimed responsibility. for a series of coordinated attacks in the country. terrorists bombed three churches and a government security building but this attack near the nation's capital was the deadliest. almost three dozen were killed. and more than 50 injured. >> you can see so many families gone. households, the whole household, gone. nigerian authorities carried some of the dead away in body bags. officials in the country acknowledge they had difficulty at first getting help to the victims. the white house has issued a statement calling the attacks senseless and tragic. it also says u.s. officials have contacted nigerian authorities to offer assistance in catching the killers. >> the extremist group boko haram claimed responsibility for the bombings and want islamic law implemented across the country. local christian residents expressed

. ♪ >> fatima is the town in portugal where the catholic church believes this image of the virgin marychildren on may 13, 1916, 65 years to the day that the pope was nearly killed by this bullet. the virgin mary also gave three secrets to the children. the first, a vision of hell. the second, the need to defeat communism in russia. and the third, a prediction too terrible to reveal. then, in the year 2000, pope john paul revealed the secret. >> it was about a figure in white being wounded. it wasn't a precise prophecy of what happened to the pope in 1981 but it was kind of a vague picture that fitted that occasion and there was nothing very startling about it. and i am very glad they came out with that because that was a happy hunting ground for religious fanatics. ♪ >> but the pope was hardly alone in his devotion to marian apparitions. thousands continue to receive visions and millions more make pilgrimages to those sites. how does the vatican determine which miracles are real and which are faith-induced fantasies? >> well, they want to look at the results in people's lives. if the r

joseph university in philadelphia is a leading historian in the catholic church. >> a purpose of the to provide the details that christians wandered about the lives of jesus, mary and joseph. >> the story in the apocryphal about a young jesus were popular and treated like dime store books. >> an interesting book is the story of thomas which is maive louse -- which is marvelous like what it is for god to be a child. he started off poorly and then knocks him down. >> and another story is an in competent carpenter who is jesus. >> at the end his heart and wisdom is under control and ready to use it for good. >> why are the lives of mary and joe self hidden in mystery? joseph disappears after the christmas story. leaving early christians free to depict him as they please. >> christian art shows joseph portrayed as older gentleman. >> a former priest teaches religion at new york university to christians, muslims, and jews. >> joseph is written out of the story to preserve the virginity, and mary continued to be a virgin after the birth of jesus which means you cannot have brothers and sis

a string of killings including a catholic church. it's believed to be as high as 40 deaths, but not sure yet. the new york times and other say it has ties to al qaeda. mitt romney has a lead over his rivals in new hampshire. the university of new hampshire poll said romney has 39% of support from lightning gop voters and newt gingrich and ron paul are tied at 1%, john huntsman at 11%. takes place on january 10. before the new hampshire primary is the iowa caucuses, that's on january 3rd and that's leading all the candidates to start a major push for august goers. michelle bachmann and rick perry are expected to go this week. the leading candidate right now in iowa is gingrich. looming businesses, the rule takes effect this sunday. but eric rasmussen found out that not everyone is ready. >> reporter: it's a familiar sound at the lions super market that's about to go away. the asian grocery stores affected by a city wide ban on single use plastic bags starting next week. it means big adjustment. >> i use it for trash and carrying thing

an explosion ripped through a catholic church during christmas mass near the capital killing at leastlater near another church where it is feared a radical muslim sect is to blame. >>> now to russia where tens of thousands protested in the streets of moscow yesterday demanding that prime minister vladimir putin step down. they are receiving support from former president mikhail gorbachev who resigned as president of the soviet union 20 years ago today. >>> finally, you can't see enough of these pictures. iraq veterans coming home for the holiday pulling off one more secret mission by surprising their families. now let's get a check of the national forecast. showers and thunderstorms across the south today with snow in the texas panhandle. scattered snow showers in new england and the great lakes with highs in the 30s. here is your local forecast. that is the news. merry christmas everyone. let's send it back to everyone. >> thanks very much. now to politics. the business of running the country doesn't stop on christmas day not to mention the business of running to run the country. of

now against the painful process of rebuilding the reputation of the catholic church in the netherlands and beyond. >> the end of muammar gaddafi's rain in libya was supposed to usher in a time of reconciliation. many of his fighters are in jail and the new government is keen to promote national army. that message is not getting through where some areas that used to support the kernels are coming under attack from the militias. >> after the guns fell silent, so did the entire town. sign posts have been raised by militiamen from misrata would like to see this place erased from the map. once home to 30,000 people, now home to no one at all. houses have been ransacked and torch. this was used as a base for muammar gaddafi's forces. when they were defeated, everyone here had to flee. it is extremely erie being in a place for not a soul remains. misrata is about 50 kilometers from here and every day some of their militiamen come here ensuring that no man, woman, child care return. -- dare return. among the prisoners, a significant number of the villagers. they say they have been well treated

church on a regular basis. the campaign is called catholic come home.t has boosted attendance by 10%. >> the campaign is a 3.5 million campaign. it has taken over 15 years to rise that money and 35,000 families around the united states said i want to invite my neighbors and relatives home. >> the national campaign has the potential to reach 250 million viewers. the 30 second ad will run through the highly rated shows. >>> i'm 13 years old i don't know what to do. i'm in my room upstairs and i saw someone looking through my drawers downstairs. >> she managed to stay home after two burglars broke into her home. she stayed on the line for more than 15 minutes before help arrived. at one point the robbers came in her bedroom and stood three feet from the bed where she was hiding. >> i was shaking really bad. i didn't want to make too much noise so i kind of sat there. >> she says her dad's advice about staying focused during emergency situation is what helped her to stay calm. >>> uc berkeley researchers are looking for anyone that lost a sock while doing t

an explosion ripped through a catholic church during christmas mass near the capital killing at leastoff later near another church where it is feared a radical muslim sect is to blame. >>> now to russia where tens of thousands protested in the streets of moscow yesterday demanding that prime minister vladimir putin step down. they are receiving support from former president mikhail gorbachev who resigned as president of the soviet union 20 years ago today. >>> finally, you can't see enough of these pictures. iraq veterans coming home for the holiday pulling off one more secret mission by surprising their families. now let's get a check of the national forecast. showers and thunderstorms across the south today with snow in the texas panhandle. scattered snow showers in new en s >> good morning and merry christmas. we are off to a son is stark but chilly temperatures. better to the afternoon. highs in the that is the news. merry christmas everyone. let's send it back to everyone. >> thanks very much. now to politics. the business of running the country doesn't stop on christmas day not

his wife is a catholic and brought him into the church.ould think this might take a lot of evangelicals off him leaving the faith but it had the opposite effect. it's being interpreted a as born again experience. i've talked to a number of evangelicals close to gingrich and said he was a kind of shabby or sloppy evangelical and coming to the catholic church has made him a lot more serious about his faith and changed him as a person. surprisingly, it's actually raised his stock in the eyes of a lot of leaders in this country. >> dan gillgof, thanks so much. appreciate your time. of course you can read dan's article in the cnn believe blog just go to cnn.com/belief and you can share your thoughts there as well. >>> i'll be back in about one hour from now when we will focus exclusively on the 2012 presidential race in the 4:00 eastern hour. new numbers, by the way, suggesting president obama is gaining ground in states that usually back republicans. we'll talk about that as the president pushes made in america as well. that campaign. and we'r

. >>> an explosion at a catholic church near the nigerian capital claimed the lives of at least 20 people had just finished oep observing christmas mass. in what apartments to be a coordinated assault, a bomb exploded amid gunfire and a suicide bomber attacked the military in the nation's northeast. a muslim sect responsible for holiday bombings that killed 90 people last year has reportedly claimed responsibility for yesterday's attacks. >>> a suicide bomber killed six people in baghdad. sunday, vice president joe biden talked with by phone with prime minister al malaki. their conversation comes amid fears of a sectarian split after the shiite coalition issued an arrest warrant for another leader. >>> it is a sign of the strained relationship between the u.s. and pakistan in the month following the raid that killed osama bin laden. the new york ciin new york timee could be limits on u.s. drone strikes along with the number of u.s. spies and soldiers on the ground. tensions were heightened last month after an american air strike killed 26 pakistani soldiers near the afghan border. despite

i think that this is going to open the flood gates, just like it did in the catholic church. >> there will be plenty more. it's interesting because the guy who is representing this one victim that has now filed the civil lawsuit is a guy who had a lot of success suing the catholic church. >> bill: this is what they specialize in. and i'm not putting them down or anything like that. but a guy like sandusky charged with criminal offenses can then expect just droves of people to come after him and penn state, too. >> yes, because sandusky is not the deep pocket. they're going after penn state and after the charity, second mile, which is the group through which this boy, who is now 29, but was -- >> bill: that's not going to lead anywhere because they shut that down now. >> you have to find out what they knew. but the lawsuit against penn state is something else. because they've got evidence right now that penn state did know there was a problem with this guy. none the less, let him back on the premises with young bay and engaged, some proof of, in a cover up. >> bill: the lawsuit will be