little bit of your story or your background >>> i began my adult life as a dominican and a roman catholic church the dominican order and was working there for 34 years and writing theology and so forth. but the present hope head of the combination of faith came after me and effectively fired me crummy expelled from the quarter after a 34 years but i kept teaching and what from holy names college in oakland where was for 12 years >>> why was the expulsion >>> i called godmother i did know that was a heresy and approved all of the medieval called her mother and then i support woman's organization and i don't condone bay people. it was a list like that that wasn't very impressive. >>> original blessing was the first book that i read of coated it many times why was it so upsetting for the church and others? >>> i think it starts things over frankly. since the fourth century the church built a lot of edifice on a writ of original sin and side jewish concepts and jesus never heard of it so it's not good theology with its trade empire building if you wanted empire humans will teach a regional 7 in ruin

saying here is my budget and my line is budget is in line with the catholic teachings of the catholic churchght or wrong? >> if he submitted that budget nat class on catholic teaching at georgetown university and claimed that it was backed up by catholic social teaching, he would get an? no class. this is nonsense. it guts programs for the court. one of the thing that cathy lick social teaching is extremely concerned about is how we treat the poor the vul non-responsive neverable, the disadvantaged in society. what we do for them. mr. ryan's budget gets an f on that. >> your letter was signed by some 90 faculty members and some pretty big names on that letter father. but, also, he got a challenge from the catholic bishops? correct. >> absolutely. this is clearly a place where academics and bishops are on the same page. the bishops had pointed out that his budget just doesn't pass the moral criteria that they think are necessary for a budget. you know, they say that a just framework for future budgets cannot rely on dispropportionat cuts and essential services to the poor person. >> that's th

catholic church.itality today worldwide is attributable in part to its ability to absorb and react to centuries and centuries of thoughtful criticism from inside and outside the church. father schuller knows what he's up against. he doesn't sound like a priest who expects quick action from his church. he has called the vatican, quote, an absolutist monarchy. but father schuller has reason for optimism. he told "the times," "i think that in the history of the church, a lot has changed. even if not always voluntarily, there has been new science, new technology, new practices. the teachings are always changing." vatican watcher palo seems to believe that history may be on father schuller's side. he said, in spite of the tough response of the pope, i think that the calls for reform won't diminish, they will only grow. it's a problem that the vatican will increasingly have to come to terms with. the first married priests and the first women pope will owe prayers of thanks to father helmut schuller. [ male

he is trying to defend massive cuts to the poor, which is totally against catholic church teaching. is this going to be a campaign issue? >> well, the catholic vote they care about is the blue collar catholic vote in the rust belt. it's one thing to promise opportunity for everyone. paul ryan is right, the best way out of poverty is growth. unless you believe in some kind of utopia, there will always be people who need food stamps in this country. you won't be spreading the wealth around equally, i don't believe paul rye -- ryan supports that. his budget proposed more than $100 billion cut to food stamps. if you are in the beans advocacy program you need food stamps at the end of it. paul ryan's proposal, you're earning less than the average wage in a rust belt state, you know people who are on food stamps. i don't know how you go out and win an election on that. >> the republicans are amazing. they are in denial of the number of children that go to bed every night hungry, 16 million kids in this country go to bed hungry, a number they don't address. they say we have to have a good e

and it's ironic because the highest law of the catholic church is the law of conscience.nedict himself has spoken eloquently about it. even if you find your conscience is in disagreement, even with the words of the pope, you are obligated in your conscience to follow your conscience. and that's what these catholics in seattle are doing. >> and catholicism has been full of argument for its entire history as has most of the religion classes i was in in 12 years of catholic education. sister jeanine, thank you for joining us tonight. thank you very much. >> thank you.>>> coming up, mit padding his resume with a little item about small business. mitt romney's real business record is in tonight's rewrite. >>> and the small business owners that mitt romney insulted at a campaign event will get tonight's "last word." everything that i've gained in life has been because of the teachers and the education that i had. they're just part of who i am. she convinced me that there was no limit to what we could learn. i don't think i'd be here today had i not had a wonderful science teach

and the catholic church, immigrants sustained membership. but the u.s. urch still fell to 25.1% of the population. the survey also found that those with no stated religious preference grew from 8.2% in to by the way, many catholic hispanic immigrants joined the u.s. catholic population. but the catholic population nevertheless dropped 1.1% despite the hispanic influx. you want to speak to that? >> you're seeing not just hispanics, but africans, immigrants populating our churches now in a faster rate than the old school families whose younger folks are drifting away from organized ring. this is given the church a new life in america and it's affecting a lot of our perceptions of future america. >> if it weren't for imgrant, the catholic church would have lost one-fourth of its membership in the last half century. catholics are 25% of the population, john. but only one-fourth of them attend church regularly. one in every 10 americans is a catholic. used to be the dominant force in america. they're 12% of it. protestants, who are 99% of the country, are now

i say rich catholics vote republican because they like tax cuts. i think where the churchcomes in, it asks people to question themselves about whether they're thinking of a broad enough agenda. for example, to those wealthy catholics who might be inclined to be conservative, it says to them, but wait a minute, we catholics have always had a special concern for the poor and left out. we had a special concern for immigrants. what are you going to think about that? i think for more liberal catholics what you mind is, they tend to talk quite a lot, even if they're not sure of the state can outlaw abortion they talk about what we can do to reduce the number of abortions, which, by the way, often involves helping poor women with kids. so i agree, it's not monolithic, the church's influence is sometimes indirect, but i think that the question is, how does he get people to think about these issues? >> e.j. dionne, every member of my catholic family appreciate the fact you said catholic voters vote for winners. >> great to be with you. thanks. >> california gets set to vote on whet

not just the catholic church. nd churches role of americans in the place that's going to leave a deficit there are a number of people who want to fill it up name lay new religion called secularism, which would be as doctrineaire as infallible as they character the other religions as doing. to see that morally driven, religiously convinced people want to exercise their political responsibility, i think that is not only at the heart of biblical religion, it's at the heart of the american enterprise. >> i want to get into one more thing before i let you go. you said the religion of secularism, all right? so it's basically the catholic church and other faith-based people and other religions against the american media entertainment industry. that's how i see it all right? the american press very secular, would you agree? >> yeah. >> and the entertainment industry pounding secularism all day long. so you find yourself on the defensive. all right? just as you are and now in the intrusion by the obama administration into h

not just the catholic church. tape the role of religion and churches role of americans in the place that's going to leave a deficit there are a number of people who want to fill it up name lay new religion called secularism, which would be as doctrineaire as infallible as they character the other religions as doing. to see that morally driven, religiously convinced people want to exercise their political responsibility, i think that is not only at the heart of biblical religion, it's at the heart of the american enterprise. >> i want to get into one more thing before i let you go. you said the religion of secularism, all right? so it's basically the catholic church and other faith-based people and other religions against the american media entertainment industry. that's how i see it all right? the american press very secular, would you agree? >> yeah. >> and the entertainment industry pounding secularism all day long. so you find yourself on the defensive. all right? just as you are and now in the intrusion by the

cardinals are the highest ranking clergy in the catholic church.wer only to the pope. >> this should serve as a warning to everybody across this country that now that all this secrecy has been uncovered, not only in philadelphia but in california, and washington and alaska and everyplace else. >> next fall bishop flynn will be the highest ranking to go on trial. he is accuseof failing to tell police of suspected child abuse. marci hamilton is the philadelphia attorney who recommends clergy sex abuse victims in civil trials. >> until the last several years, most of them just thought everyone would believe the church. everyone would believe the bishops, and they would be ignored. this is empowering for them. >> reporter: philadelphia archdiocese officials declined to talk to us about the lynn trial. the judge has ordered all parties not to comment on the case. lynn could face up to 28 years in prison. elaine quijano, cbs news, philadelphia. >> pelley: bill bow, a city on spain's northwest coast is famous for many things and one of them is wind, which

america should be able to have insurance coverage for birth control if she so chooses and that the catholic church and other churches should not have to pay for it. or provide it. >> schieffer: for the record is that what you advised the president? >> yes. but that is also where the president was in the front end. >> schieffer: so i guess the question i would ask you, your eminence, are you good with that? >> no. although i appreciate very much the vice president. he has been helpful and i have been benefitted from his counsel and i look forward to talking to him again so i am glad he weighed in on it but i would disagree with him, it hasn't helped us much, bob, because we still have to pay for it, because most of us are self insured and we are still worried not just about our institutions but also the individuals, so we still find ourselves in a very tough spot, and we are still going to continue to express what we believe is just not a religious part of you but a constitutional part of you that america at her best when the government doesn't force a citizen or a group of citizens in a religious

serve the interests not so much of religious tenants, the fregosi ran them, the history of the catholic church is a pretty sordid one. what about those sort of critics who say, well, religion itself for institutional religion to quote the theologian inherently demonic including the church and oftentimes religious institutions serve as natchez and adamant towards the capacity for transcendence or transformation, that the religious impulse that goes your names to describe articulate an honor to nonrational forces in life, beauty, grace, struggle for own mortality, all the things you've written about, that one has to make a very sharp distinction between the institutions and the religious impulse. and in many cases and i covered the war in yugoslavia, the religious institutions signed on for the crusades of ethnic cleansing. they gave a kind of sacred authority. >> work, without wishing in any way to underplay the terrible role of institutions, we also have to accept institutions can make the best possible that are not possible when it's just the individual. just to take the heat out of the argum

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. >> i'm sure the church is going to say having a teacher in a catholic school that undermines church doctrine in this way and models that for the students is an undue hardship. >> in january, the u.s. supreme court ruled that church employees who pass on a religious message cannot sue for job discrimination, but she said she teaches only language and literature, not catholic doctrine and therefore should be allowed to sue. >> i'm proud because my 7-year-old, one day he's going to know his mom stood up for what is right. >> she's not only asking for her job back, but compensation for emotional distress and mental anguish. katy tur, nbc news, ft. wayne, indiana. >>> up next, an extraordinary honor for bob dylan, among others. >>> and the first lady reveals the one thing she would like to change about her job. >>> here is a plane you're probably very glad you weren't on as it came in for a bumpy landing in very high winds in northern spain. the planes got swept up in strong gusts. one had to go back up before it could come down again. all's well that ends well. the pilots eventua

do the right before the reformation the catholic church was a totalitarian entity come which will does much to fear and the threat of damnation as anything else that there was the kind of power, especially in preliterate europe, which the church certainly fused. >> guest: search me to the power and verbal government at that time, this was an age when your children could could or wives to exist as legal entities come with a whole nation of being a subject was not part of the common law. so we are dealing with violence across the board. jacinta church in 1400 was the bastian of intolerance. i am an atheist. i don't see why i'm defending the catholic church. but all i'm saying is i'm also an historian has said in this context. the average monastery was not better or worse than the average kingship. so these were violet days. >> host: let me give you quotes spinoza and pretty cheap. at one point in the book you talk about how difficult camacho strew how radical intellectuals, those figures like spinosa and a nietzsche challenged the assumptions of an age, both essentially cast out, not onl

the mystery of the catholic church is a sorted one. what about those sort of critics who would say, well, religion itself or institutional religion is, to quote the theologian, inherently demonic including the church, and that often times religious institutions serve as much as an impediment towards the capacity for transformation that the religious impulse that those yearnings to describe, articulate, and honor the non-rationallal forces in life, be that beauty, grief, the struggle for mortality, all the things you've written about, that one has to make a very sharp distinction between the institutions and the religious impulse and in many cases, and, you know, i covered the war in the former yugoslavia, the religious institutions signed on for the crusades of ethnic cleansing and gave a sacred authority to murder. >> guest: look, without wishing in any way to underplay the terrible role of institutions, we also have to accept that institutions can make things possible that are not possible when it's just the individual, and i think ma

and i think that's where the catholic church probably does and it changed the way we thought about all of the institutions. >> but we knew we were dealing with the white house. >> right. but you weren't sitting around going like this and saying i wonder what we can do to look at the power of the white house. >> no. but from the date of that notebook i talked about showed up in the pocket, it was either that or the cia we were looking a. we knew that much pretty clear. >> but that i would agree that in terms of the way it changed what we thought of an institution, in the catholic church thing, believing something that appears on the surface to be unbelievable, and that's the same thing with the paterno thing, believe something that appears unbelievable. >> i think about state legislatures, i mean, those are great stories. all over america they are real -- i mean that's not low. it is really important. really powerful. if you think that the role of money, look at where these super pacs are putting their money now. it's more in state races in many ways than it is in the presidential race.

because one of the things you finds sympathy with is a big institution like the catholic church whichdy and the u.s. senate. those voices that puncture still out there for social justice like the catholic bishops represented their best is at least a vanguard of what can come. Ãirñ you're in touch with god, david. give him this memo which is to say we would encourage not only catholic priests but buddhist monks, rabbis, everybody can join together in saying some of the paul ryan deserves to be thrown in the trash can >> he doesn't like buddhists. >> i will tell my buddhist mother that. come up, two years ago today, the deep waewater horizon rig explosion created the worst offshore oil spill in american history. there is disturbing new evidence of the long-term damage caused by the disaster. we'll take a closer look when former florida governor charlie crist joins us. that's next on "now." ♪ [ sighs ] [ bird chirps ] [ bird squawks ] ♪ [ bird screeching ] ♪ [ elevator bell dings ] [ sighs ] how mad is she? she kicked me out. but i took the best stuff. i'll get the wrench. ♪ [ male annou

if she goes along with the teaching of the church and 98% of catholic women do not. back away from it. what i would say is this yeah, i don't think religion should be too involved in politics but i also don't think the government in politics should be overly involved in the church. that's our problem here. you've got a dramatic, rad alintrusion of a bureaucracy and the internal life of the church. that bothers me. hear me say hey, i would like to back away from this. i have other things to worry about and bigger fish to fry than this. our problem is the government is intruding into the life of faith and in the church that they shouldn't be doing. >> bill: oh, no, no, no. it is just the opposite. it is catholic church demanding that the congress and the white house do the bidding of the catholic church and make contraception illegal and deny american women the health protection that they deserve. and the catholic church ought to butt out of it and if not, maybe we ought to take a look at the tax-exempt status of the catholic church. >> announcer: this is the "bill pres

. >> i'm sure the church is going to say having a teacher in a catholic school that undermines church doctrine in this waiss and models that for the students is an undue hardship. >> church employees who pass on a religious message can not sue for job discrimination, but she said she teaches only language and literature, not catholic doctrine and therefore should be allowed to sue. >> i'm proud because my 7-year-old, one day she's going to know his mom shood up for what is right. >> she's not only asking for her job back, but comp saslicatioen mental distress and anguish. >> up next, an extraordinary honor for bob dylan, among others, and the first ladesy reveals the one thing she would like to change about her job. if you are one of the millions of men who have used androgel 1%, there's big news. presenting androgel 1.62%. both are used to treat men with low testosterone. androgel 1.62% is from the makers of the number one prescribed testosterone replacement therapy. it raises your testosterone levels, and... is concentrated, so you could use less gel. and with androgel 1.62%,

the catholic church is going to a real crisis. e thousands of churches been shut down because there is a lack of priests. the sexual abuse crisis has really rocked the church to its roots. i am convinced if we had women priests and women bishops, the sexual abuse and the silence during those years would not have been possible. women simply would not have been silent. i am also convinced if we had women priests and bishops, there would not be such silence about this war in iraq. i am also convinced if we have women priests and bishops, they would have called for the closing of the school of the americas at fort benning, georgia. we need women for it to be complete and healthy. >> that was father roy bourgeoise. sister simone campbell, your thoughts? >> he has some good points. catholic sisters -- we were encouraged in the 1950's and in the 1960's to get educated, it advanced degrees, to enter into engaging the world. we have done that. i think that is part of what some of the challenge is. many of our hierarchy who have grown up in

many churches hold health fairs, but this blood pressure screening at queen of the rosary roman catholic churchn suburban chicago is a little different. >> you actually cook for yourself? that's good. >> reporter: it's a regular event organized and run by diane tieman, a registered nurse who's on the church staff. >> i do health education classes. i do blood pressure screenings. i take calls from people that want information about the health care system, about themselves and their health concerns. >> reporter: and she does a lot more. home visits are an essential part of tieman's job as a parish or faith community nurse, helping church members, many of whom are elderly, prepare for doctor visits and surgeries. >> let's just listen to your heart. >> reporter: parish nurses are health counselors and advocates. they do not provide treatment. but there's more to the job than checking vital signs, reviewing medications, and helping people navigate the health care system. >> people just need to be heard and need to be listened to, and as a parish nurse that's one of the greatest things that we do is

one thing you know, we don't want the government massing on the inside of any church, where the catholic churcha mormon church or the muslim faith. >> he comes to baltimore after serving as before connecticut. he will be installed on may 16. barry simms, wbal-tv 11 news. >> now, your forecast. >> it turned out to be a pretty nice day today. the temperature made it up to 60 degrees, but it felt cooler than that because the winds were gusting at 40 miles an hour at times. now has diminished and that is important because we are setting up something we called good radiation a kaline tonight. we have all three things in place tonight. high pressure in new england, this warm front is going to make it through sometime during the day tomorrow. upper 60's tomorrow and maybe 70's on wednesday. in the short term between now and then it will get kind of gold. here is the first element we were talking about. the skies are perfectly clear tonight. earlier this afternoon gusts of up to 30 miles an hour and now they are nearly calm. relative humidity is that 48%. that is a little deceiving. dewpoints are runni