>> pope francis is obviously from a different side of the catholic church from benedict.n't it, for benedict. francis is honoring benedict by presiding over this service. so whilst they're often pitted against each other, they actually had a lot of respect for each other as individuals. clair, can you hear us okay? >> yes, now i can. i don't know. it went completely mute. >> hi, clair. i wondered what you made of the fact that these were two popes that had a lot of respect for each other even though they represented very different wings of the catholic church. >> well frrkts beginning both pope benedict and pope francis tried to make an effort to make sure they were working in continuity with the church. but atha changed as faithful saw a more progressive side in pope francis and a more conservative voice in pope benedict who even in his silence was quite eloquent and inspired a sort of quiet resistance, some would say, from those who believed that perhaps pope francis was taking the church too far and encouraging conversations that not everyone shared. the secretary of s

about gay marriage, communism, totalitarian regimes, what does he think about the ethics of the catholic church? pope francis is not change the doctrine of the church. he has not done that, but he has drawn our questions, and that has created a lot of confusion for the people. in this state of the world right now, with a crisis of lead leadership, a crisis of leadership, we need somebody to be able to say you don't have to believe what we believe, but this is not only what we believe, but why we believe. pope benedict xvi gave us a great example in that.. >> if we can bring back the bishop as well, i'm fascinated to see your perspective on how much influence pope benedict had on the catholic faith as we know it today, as we go every sunday. what impact did he have on that for all of us who sit in the pews and pray. >> you know, pope benedict did not have the charisma of john paul ii. so many people who lived during the papacy of john paul ii, they remembered him as this charismatic leader who would travel the world. pope benedict did not have that, but that is not charisma is not the essence of

the catholic church had to drop out of the state advisory service. the german bishops obeyed and then had to explain themselves to this lock in germany. once again, many german catholics were disappointed by their own bishops. and joseph writing or the pope is convinced that there are truths that contain humanities, true happiness, and that no one benefits if this is obscured when, as i don't thought. and when it came to questions about issues such as homosexuality, divorce, and birth control. if he insisted that the limit of compassion that the limit of is truth. so for watching her, the limit of compassion is truth. but what did this mean for the status of women in the catholic church? for their demands to be treated equally? with yoseph writing her stuck to his predecessors at strict rejection of women priests telling the female half of his church that their true calling in life was to serve and be humble. the catholic women's movement was not impressed at deacon's oh, but before she tools at work done by the vatican, theology commissions and bible

papacy as best as he could when he did become pope but certainly definitely someone who put the catholic churchsaw himself as someone who said the doctrine of the church, someone who delved for hours and days into the libraries of the vatican looking at scriptures, looking at the books down there as well. who saw himself as a theologian above all and definitely not someone who was as outgoing as, for instance, john paul ii was wooing the masses and an icon for not just catholics but many people around the world. pope benedict a bit more subdued in his ways. the funeral we're seeing, the service we're seeing right now very fitting for who pope benedict was, the kind of character pope benedict was and certainly also definitely the way that he would have wanted the ceremony to take place. i think some of the words we heard from pope francis very important, not just in the homily just now but what we've heard from pope francis over the past several days in the run up to this where he acknowledged pope benedict was not doing very well. he called for prayers for pope benedict in the final days of the

heads of the ukrainian orthodox church of the ukrainian orthodox church and the ukrainian greek catholic church, and according to your opinion , mr. igor, when can we expect a full-fledged the work of similar commissions, and how will we be ready this year to move to, for example , september, the month that, so to speak, opens the new calendar church year ? and is the optimal period, the church lives outside of time. it lives forever, and if we observe, for example, similar processes that took place in other orthodox churches in the same bulgarian church, then we can see with you what these are period, the bulgarian church, for example, was in such a transition for 20 years at the same time on the feast day and december 25 from january 7, eh. yes, this commission, the commission is already starting to work to agree on all these nuances related to the calendar form. i think we understand that we are not bulgarians we will go through this path much faster, and the joint commission itself will make a decision of the leadership of both the orthodox church of ukraine and the leadership of the ukrain

this is impossible to do very quickly, but i am convinced that it is necessary for the greek catholic churcho do its part regarding these influences here, of course, that is, the church should involve more people who have professional education in this matter and you also know. well, people may like gilding, but this means that this good aesthetic taste must be cultivated, it just doesn't appear like that. that's 100%. we, the audience, should explain to our audience that the light has gone out here. it’s just that we, like the whole of ukraine, have lost electricity. well, the graph is from, but the generators started working, so i’m sorry to see a little black picture. well, that’s our reality, actually, very briefly, if i ask you. op anatoliy, what do you say? should involve priests or the priests themselves in some communities somewhere in villages or towns or should it be somehow centralized, that is, there should be some the greek-catholic church looks like this. this is how the orthodox church - this is ukraine looks like . by the way, we are also something, this word is connoisseurs,

and let us understand that the job of the pope's not to reinvent the catholic church in his own image and likeness. the pope is the rock around which the church maintains its immunity. he is the defender of the faith if you will. that certainly put joseph roth singer, benedict the 16th as a sign of contradiction in a modern world that is deeply confused about many things. but the essence of this man i think was his concept of priestly service and bringing people to god. he wanted people to be able to fall in love with jesus christ and with god the father. and that is how he understood his role in the world. he was not a great showman. was not a scintillating public presence. but i believe that people will be reading his speeches and his homilies literally hundreds of years from now. they're so deep and so thoughtful that there is things to be learned through decades and centuries to come. >> chris, let us talk a little bit about what we are going to see today. because i was struck as i was following what the vatican officials were saying. the lead up to this just how much of new terri

one of the many catholic church run go here in congo. catholic church runs about 60 percent of the health care and education services in a country where the government doesn't really provide much of those kinds of services. it's still not one of the reason that the catholic church is so popular and so influential here is where people tend to get an education health care as well. now folks expected to get a message that you asked about the expecting. here is one of peace, but it's normally very diplomatic on these trips. but the lead is the catholic church here in con, guys are really quite outspoken, more so than in most of the african countries. the catholic church is paid have a good role ever since the 1970s in holding congos rulers, to account and campaigning for democracy. and just the recent weeks, the cardinal law of democratic republic of congo been very critical of the government saying that it's abandoned people here in kinshasa, in the east of the country. whether been escalating conflicts in recent years in particular, d. n. 23 widely understood the back by neighboring rwanda.

would you say that the catholic church manage that, that era? well, i think the benedict managed that very well. there was lots of speculation the time that he was going to be a focus of conservative theology within the church. frances was very clearly from the beginning. somebody who was going to be a reformer and much more forward looking and there was anxiety within the church. the conservative elements within the catholic church would rally around benedict. and this would only exacerbate the tensions within the church, which was as i mentioned already being rocked by scandals of various sorts. we say that they were almost ready to start and we were starting with the literature of the word. so just a quick word on what we can expect next. well, it's going to be, as i said, a more less standard. a catholic mass is going to be a penitential rise, the confession of sin. and at the beginning, everybody acknowledging their own sinfulness and asking for forgiveness that is a normal part of opening of catholic mass. and then there will be the so call

i or too old fashion with not the right direction for the catholic church. but it said he was the leader. so, but i would say that it was this is he was not afraid to face the questions of today. he was very open in that regard. welcome to the show. russia has admitted suffering, the deadliest strike on his troops since fulton launched his full scale invasion of ukraine 10 months ago. the kremlin has confirmed that 63 of its soldiers were killed in a series of strikes on a temporary barracks in the eastern. donna's korean, the ukrainian defense forces have claimed responsibility for the new year's eve attack and say the true death toll is much higher. this footage shows the aftermath of the strike. russian media have sharply criticized the senior officers involved. here is part of the kremlin rare admission. 2 days after the attack, distributors will leave the key of regime targeted, a temporary deployment point of one of the units of the russian armed forces near the settlement of my kiva and the de netscape peoples republic, 6 rockets. if you estimate hyma

the catholic church was wrought by several scandals during his papacy. many of them involving benedict directly. where did he and what state did he leave the catholic church when he sat down, i think that the stayed at which the church finds itself the moment that by they steps down, it's essentially catastrophic. i mean, not only from a political institutional point of view and from a believe it from a, from a public relations point of view. not only there were sort of plenty of scandals among them, just among them was the sex abuse scandal to which i'm sure we will return in this conversation. but you also had sort of a massive hemorrhage of believers. people that no longer in the church, not only like of religious health, already, no moral authority whatsoever. obviously, you know, if you have an organization that has for better or worse, i mean, been in for solving what is a global crime, wave of sexual abuse against children. it's impossible to actually take it seriously when the, when the church starts talking about morality. i think that, you know

you can leave the delegation, some different sex, different parts of the, the catholic church. i'm just the normal people, 200000 people. when to when to see the lying and state in the present. i think there's a 95 year old man here resigned the position in 2013 over ailing health, so abroad vacuum. it's not between a t t and a really unprecedented period of to being being allies at the same time, but also logs the work that bennett did. he was controversial. he wasn't university love that he was very support especially by the more conservative, more traditional fraction in the catholic church. i think there's a lot of people that are very fond towards him, and a lot of them has been here in the last couple of days and will be attending the funeral. a mocking the policy of someone that was not only opposed to clean being the kind of heavy weight in the catholic church. well, thank you for that. jack. jack park in room. the european union has a greater number of restrictions on travellers from china, in response to a certain coven infections there, but stopped short of making th

and how did that dynamic work for the catholic church? i mean it's really no secret that the current pope and his predecessor had very, very different opinions. the predecessor po benedict, the former pope was more of an academic, more somebody who spent a lot of time creating and writing and praying. while the current pope is more interested in a pastoral work and, and had generally more liberal views. so you know, the tension in their opinions and in the style in which they led the church is very, very different. at the same time, outwardly, at least, their relationship was a amicable. and as i mentioned, the sitting pope made an effort to regularly visit his predecessor and speak well of him in public. and so there were some tete tensions in thought, but at the same time outwardly, they wanted to give a united front in the line. thank you. so much i abraham reporting for us from the vatican in rome. thank you. i. i and he is a look at a some of the other stories making headlines around the welt. qindzhong on has order to north korea's

.— catholic church. church. obviously, one of the biggest things _ catholic church. obviously, one of the biggest things that _ catholic church. obviously, one of the biggest things that pope - the biggest things that pope benedict will be remembered for is his historic resignation. he was the first pope in 600 years to resign the papacy, so this has set a new precedent in history for the catholic church, even in terms of coming out with funeral protocol for an emeritus pope, it is something new and something the vatican had to come up with over the last few years. it is something that could set a precedent for future popes, years. it is something that could set a precedent forfuture popes, as people are living longer and the experience increased limited physical capacity as the edge, it could be the decision delete like the moment for the pope to say, i could take this step as well. it opens that door and sets a new precedent. benedict xvi will be remembered and is already being hailed as one of the mos

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and the coffin catholic church.n itself , traditional triple itself, traditional triple coffin of a casket made of cypress wood enclosed by zinc , cypress wood enclosed by zinc, and then a further wooden coffin, we're told the pope benedict requested a very simple service. he was a man who was known for his great brain and his deep thinking for his theology . and that service being theology. and that service being presided over this morning by pope francis, who succeeded him as the next pope, an incredibly unusual funeral for a pope, the first in 600 years of its kind and of course, will be watched by millions of people around the world. for those of you who want to take a particular interest in it, i should tell you we are going to be streaming it live online, but we are already streaming it live on our gb news youtube channel. and you can get full coverage over there and we'll keeping close on we'll be keeping a close eye on procedures . they go. the funeral procedures. they go. the funeral of pope emeritus benedi

the former head of the roman catholic church, stunned the world when he resigned in 2013. he was a 1st pope to step down in 600 years. but france has called him a noble kind man. was a gift to the church and the world a bundle of us in the late inquest, a momento. at this moment, our thoughts go to our dearest benedict, the 16th, who left us this morning. it is with emotion that we remember this person so noble, so kind of young and we feel in our heart such gratitude, gratitude to god for having gifted him to the church and the world. gratitude to him with all the good he has accomplished. and especially for his witness of faith and prayer, especially in these last years of his retired life is only god knows the value and strength of the intersection of his sacrifices offered the good of the church out there was poor brennan takes a look at the former pope's legacy. benedict the 16th final actors. pope arguably changed the catholic church more than anything else he achieved during his entire atm papacy. on february 28th 2013 benedict became the 1st pope in nearly 600 year

also coming up a message for the catholic churches, fastest growing congregations this week, pope francis said that homosexuality is a sin, but it's not a crime scene was being homosexual. is not a crime. can get every man and every woman must have a window in their life with where the content to help and where they can see the dignity of god and being homosexual isn't to crimes. it's a human condition. it's not on cinema. ah, but to our viewers watching p b us in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with airstrikes and you in what some see as the latest acts of russian revenge in the country. on wednesday, germany of the united states announce that they will send battle tanks to ukraine, the news aloud ukrainians. a bit more hope that they may be able to win the war against russia and do so sooner rather than later. while the criminal, it sees it differently, president putin spokesperson saying that the tanks will be a mistake for which the ukrainian people will have to pay when the wave of air strikes across ukraine may have reminded civilians of

with this, we understand that the catholic church, when it looks at growth, in terms of numbers, size of congregations, the strongest growth that it is seeing is in africa right now. that also happens to be the place where you are seeing even new laws that are being put on the books and some countries that criminalize homosexuality was this what we were hearing in this interview from the pope an attempt to maybe shepherd these growing flocks. is there were he was trying to do? well, 1st, thanks for having me. and i know you said it before the statement, the pope made yesterday is, is groundbreaking. no pope has ever done it in history. and i do think yes that it's not only for growing continent growing where catholics are growing in africa. but i think the pope has even a bigger ambition. i would say to make sure that human dignity is respected everywhere. the l g b t. community is persecuted, is condemned. there's violence against the community, there's draconian, horrible laws you know, criminalizing almost a tragedy. and so it's important that the pope makes the statement, and that

with this, we understand that the catholic church, when it looks at growth, in terms of numbers, size of congregations, the strongest growth that it if seeing is in africa right now, that also happens to be the place where you are seeing even new laws that are being put on the books in some countries that criminalize homosexuality was this what we were hearing in this interview from the pope an attempt to maybe shepherd these growing flocks is there were he was trying to do well 1st thanks for having me. and i, you know, you said it before the statement, the pope made yesterday is, is groundbreaking. no pope has ever done it in history. and i do think, yes that it's not only for growing continent growing where catholics are growing in africa. i think the pope has even a bigger ambition, i would say to make sure that human dignity is respected everywhere. the l g b t. community is persecuted, is condemned. there's violence against the community. there's draconian, horrible laws you know, criminalizing almost a tragedy. and so it's important that the pope makes the statement and that ot

but still very sort of in keeping with the traditions of the vatican and the catholic church. there were the official estimates from the vatican is that there were about 75000 people in attendance. saint peter's square, frankly, was not full, as you might have, it might expected if it was a, a sitting coat whose funeral was taking place. but much of this has been unprecedented. i spoke to one nun after the after the funeral, who'd come here of her own volition. she said she'd felt compelled to come here. and she said that she found the m, the funeral ceremony very sought but profoundly beautiful. there was a stillness, a calmness of quiet the, obviously the hymns singing out around the square. and this is, i think, probably exactly what pope marriage has been. is it the 16th had wanted he said he didn't want to sort of fool pomp and ceremony of a normal paypal funeral. the funeral is now over benedict. the 16th will now be in touch in the vault of saint petersburg hillock, or is that right? yeah, that's right, so the wooden casket that was brought out into saint peter's square

well, at least the ukrainian greek catholic church can claim it church, do you know anything about these er, these opportunities? i think that you know, such questions should be resolved at the level of the leadership of the ukrainian orthodox church of the ukrainian greek catholic church. it is very important that er, none of the politicians try to stir up any misunderstandings about what we ourselves think of as ukrainians. by churches and how do you assess the current level of dialogue between the ugcc and the ptu? it seems to me that it is not bad. it seems to me that these are two churches that are getting closer. i think that it is very good that both churches are led by enough people they are young, they are big, they are adequate, they are already well educated, they still have great prospects ahead , may god give them health, and in principle, they already have the opportunity, being in such an important position, to continue this work on the rapprochement of the two churches, a job that will probably take a long time what are we talking about, again, about the centuries-old his

we also have the pochaiv lavra, which was built by the greek-catholic church.vious from my point of view that it should be handed over to the greek-catholic church of ukraine, and it is obvious that the greek-catholic church and the orthodox church have the right to serve in ukrainian shrines because the kyiv church is the mother of the ptzu for the ugcc, and i believe that this will actually happen, but the agreement was concluded on a lease with the uoc, as they say, the uoc, some say the uoc mp, from my point of view, this is the russian orthodox church in ukraine, even more so so it should be said after the decision of the constitutional court , they have some kind of strange indefinite lease there, and this will have to be dealt with by state bodies that could exist in order for ukrainian shrines to become ukrainian. four yes, that is, three registered, one of them is registered mykola knyazhytskyi and one should still be developed by the cabinet of ministers and many sang from different factions first for european solidarity and also from the servant of t

well, i, it's difficult to say, hope francis has been very quietly reforming the catholic church, but actually making quite substantial progress. i don't think this will really change that much. he will continue on the path that he's on. as we mentioned earlier, you covered benedict's election and you reported from many of his paypal trips. can you share some of your personal memories with us. gov, the so many i think in 2006, one of the personal ones that i found very touching and sweet. it was a state visit by a pope to the united kingdom. i have the privilege of travelling in the papal aircraft and seeing both benedict at close quarters. he also went to scotland, where he was received by queen elizabeth 2nd. and there he came up to the, to the, to hollywood palace in a rather small car. when he got out he, with some difficulty he, the queen came towards him to greet him. and the 2 people sort of stumble that little bit over the grass with the queen, actually taking his arm and supporting him and remarking how difficult it was to get in and out of small cars. which was very sweet. a

the catholic church has an amazing body of knowledge around death and dying. and catholic social teachings form the principles of what we call end of life care. the declaration on euthanasia goes through various points. very practical points, talking about death, first of all. death is a part of the human condition. it's neither to be feared and avoided at all costs, more is it to be actively procured. so, you know, we know that's part of life. and by looking at some of the principles of catholic teaching, we can see what the best way is to die. what principles are okay. how much medication is allowed. what we should be doing and shouldn't be doing. how to help each other through deaths, spiritual and physical ways. >> you provide practical resources for people to know. your website at the archdiocese, all your resources there. they can study that and talk to you personally. >> yes. we have a hotline that's actually on our website. if anybody is having a problem, either with a relative dying, a friend dying. if they have a question about an end of life issue, t

half half the democratic republic of congo is nearly 100000000 people of followers of the roman catholic church. the vatican says it's the largest catholic population in africa. road frontage visit to the capital. kinshasa is expected to draw a vast crowds. papa is up what a present it made it. sure is the fact that the pope is coming to trouble country like ours, due to war and all the things. it's a big risk that he has decided to take for us. it's a great joy and it shows his love for we're very happy. this is a read widely missionary is working on the belgian colonial rule about a 100 years ago. the relationship with the colonial state really was dependent in the 1960 catholic critic congo rulers, and one of them i went to boise campaign. the moment i got 5 years ago, it was catholic bishops and priests to lead a protest cooling for over 2 elections to be held. images of police violence in the churches and cathedrals, true international attention and condemnation. and the delayed poles went ahead. pope frontage. the visit comes less than a year before the next to his due president felix to

the former head of the catholic church stunned the world. when he resigned in 2013, he was a 1st pope to step down in 600 years. but frances, called him a noble kind man, was a gift to the church and the wolf. if a handling i sent eliza in question momento at this moment, our thoughts go to our dearest pope benedict, the 16th who left us this morning. it was, it is with emotion that we remember this person so noble, so kind of young and we feel in our heart such gratitude as his gratitude to god for having gifted him to the church and the world into gratitude to him with all the good he has accomplished and especially for his witness of faith and prayer, especially in these last years of his retired life is only god knows the value and strength others. intercession of his sacrifices offered for the good of the church . athenian out there as for bread and take a look back, the former post legacy benedict, the 16th final actors. pope arguably changed the catholic church more than anything else he achieved during his entire atm papacy. on febru

that nobody tell you that this isn't what the catholic church believes. of homosexuality for example, the teachings. absolutely clear. so it'll take an awful lots of to turn that around and even then there were people just the many catholics who will say, well, that's false teaching, which doesn't conform with 2000 years of scripture and tradition. it will be well what will be as false. well what worries me about that is that pope francis did an interview a few days ago where he condemned laws homosexuality laws that outlaw homosexuality is homosexuality a crime? is that homosexuality a crime? now, surely the pope should be concerned about sin, not crime. what why is area being greyed . what why is area being greyed. and i think he was talking about the many places in which people could be persecuted because . could be persecuted because. they have a strong same sex attraction and the catholic church doesn't want see people persecuted for the sexual . but persecuted for the sexual. but that's the mean that it approves of same sex activity in the same that'

the catholic church plays a major role here, providing services that the government usually does not such as health care and education. the 1st paypal visit in nearly 40 years is significant for its tens of millions of followers. malcolm web al jazeera, kinshasa, democratic republic of congo. the former brazilian president, your ball scenario has applied for a 6 month tourist fees as a stay in the united states. his request comes after some democratic members of the us house of representatives called for his visa to be revoked. wilson era went to florida and december after losing the election to louise, and i feel that the silva a week later, thousands of his supporters storm brazil's presidential palace, congress and supreme court. calling for the election results to be overturned in the us state of minnesota outdoor hockey, played on frozen lakes on ponds, has been a tradition for generations. but climate change is changing. all that was john hand drawn reports. in the long winters of minnesota hockey is a way of life, the colder, the better we enjoy winter here. i love the 4 seaso

i saw him when he took the reins of the catholic church. time, already a hugely influential cardinal here for decades before that, since the early 1980s. there's a lot of people who say he was one of the most influential in a long time in the catholic church, really ran the place, the second one behind john paul ii at the time. for the first couple years when he was pope, he did exude a lot of energy. i remember the world youth day in cologne where hundreds of thousands showed, but as time went on, there were a lot of issues in the catholic church, and he simply lost a lot of that energy, and i think people felt it was a strong step on his part to acknowledge he was not up to the task of running this gigantic organization, which also needed some fresh leadership at the top, 78 p-- many people felt. >>> china is dropping all the traveling restrictions. it's another sign of reopening borders to the rest of the world. the country has high expectations for 2023. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: people in china will take any opportunity to c

how did that dynamic work for the catholic church? i mean, these pope's could really not be different from each other. the former, the pope or murderous. 16 more as an academic, somebody who spent, you know, had an academic career prior to becoming pope whereas prentice more focused on pastoral activities. really trying to bring back the faithful to the church. and po, benefits were also very, very conservative. as the report mentioned, with more conservative opinions on abortion, right. and so on. whereas the pope, the current hope francis, i was more liberal and you know, even after he had retired, his role which is c, normally as roles for life. he was, he was seen in the vatican, i think as a, as, as, as a moral authority. and certainly there were, there are many supporters within the church for his interpretation rather more conservative interpretation of the faith. all right, sir. i abraham reporting for us. so from rome, where the faithful will gather in the course of the day to pay their respect to the former pope benedict, th

warmth and responsiveness, especially since it has not been associated with non-orthodox or catholic churchesr a long time. this is due to the fact that in 1860 the city burned, then the fire fled from to destroyed almost all the wooden buildings . catholics pray, for the time being, the wooden chapel, standing on the site of an ancient shrine. it rises on the bone mountain, which is on the opposite side of the market square? there was once a stone catholic shrine, which appeared on this site, thanks to the edwig i give to the shogens, who owned these lands in the second half of the eighteenth century. it was one of the best examples of baroque art in all of europe, a church of rare beauty. in honor of the holy trinity, it was built in 1772 at the same time, with the permission of the pope, the relics of st. fortunate were brought here from italy. it is known that alexander ostromovich served in the church in the 20th century. known as the belarusian poet andrei zizyulya. here xenon died at the forty-third year of his life, where exactly he was buried is unknown. all the nose of the shrine st

and it led the catholic church, but just on the 8 years he stepped down and 2013. because of how north korea lead is promising an exponential increase in the production of nuclear weapons came john on has ordered new intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of. and nuclear count canada and australia become the latest countries to impose cove at 19 checks on travelers from china, where infections are soaring. from january the 5th, they'll have to show a negative p. c on tests before departure. morocco has gone a step further, imposing a ban on all arrivals. china, you members expect to meet on wednesday to discuss the joint response. and while china's present gigi paying says the countries entering a new phase in combating the pandemic in his 1st comments. since the government abandoned their strategy, he call for unity in a televised address. patients handling of the outbreak has prompted criticism at home and concern abroad. lawrence levy reports from hong kong at this shopping mall in beijing. people take a few moments to stop and listen to the chinese precede

later, this week benedict led that catholic church from 2005 on till 2013 when he became the 1st pulp in 6 centuries to step down. so let's cross over to raul murder, our correspondent band, a reagan a joins as they are from the vatican. a band people are starting to arrive as one can see. ah, tell us what's the mood like? there are the doors of versa. basilica of some peters are open here and the lines are getting longer and longer. during the morning, thousands of people are lining up here. now the queue behind me is quite huge. it's are going around all the colonies of some peter square. there's a security check and then you can enter the, the steps of some peters and get into the church. over the former pope is to lying in state. not in a coffin isn't on an open pedestal, as so that you can be viewed from all sides or under the huge copper law. people can stay there for a few seconds, maybe her to think about a little prayer or something like that and think about his sir legacy. and to his testament, he wrote actually a letter on the 31st of december asking for forgiveness. and th

back at the form of pope's legacy. benedict the 16th final actors, pope arguably changed the catholic church more than anything else he achieved during his entire ha papacy. on february 28th 2013 benedict became the 1st pope in nearly 600 years to resign. and with his departure flight over the rooftops of rome he officially left behind the vatican the enclave where he'd held key leadership positions for decades. the official reason for the than 85 year old decision was frail health. the vatican stress benedict didn't suffer from any specific illness. but even by 2011, his physical deterioration was obvious. and he had to use a wheel platform to make his way down the long aisle of saint peter's basilica. in his room is indeed her getting in these last months i felt my energies declining, and her boss got insistently in prayer to grant me his light. and to help me make the right decision or not loving the church means also having the courage to make difficult and painful decisions always look into the good of the church and not of oneself. benedict was elected pope in 2005, his reputation as a

states, many protestant-americans believed that the hierarchical authority, structures of the catholic church instilled submission and civility in catholics. you can recall that reading from john adams in the canon of feudal law where he described the catholic church as the root of all evil, certainly the root of history. adams was not an outlier, that was a common component of anglo-american political culture. and it was this submission to the authority that rendered catholics bad citizens in the new republic, bad citizens unfit to participate in american republican, small r republican political institutions. hutch to the horror of native protestants, however, catholics -- and especially the host hated catholics, irish catholic ares -- turned out to be enthusiastic participants in the order. catholics embraced american political institutions and american participation in those institutions. still, this did not prove that catholics could be good americans. if anything, native protestants responded by arguing that this participation itself was undermining the american political system because

because there are two ukrainian churches, the orthodox church of ukraine and the ukrainian greek catholic church two churches, kyiv churches. volodymyr baptism, they come from the same root and today they have every right to represent ukrainian spiritual life in ukraine, mr. oleg. but why are the blessed superiors of those churches so careful ? well, judging by their extreme interviews, they are extremely careful in such matters, they do not feel that way so to speak, that they receive state support, or is it possible, so to speak, the specifics of church education. i think that clergymen are real clergymen. they must definitely be different from politicians and politicians can do categorical sharp statements, clergymen must first of all protect spiritual shrines and spiritual life, and i am convinced that in the person of the blessed epiphany and the blessed svyatoslav we have real spiritual leaders of ukraine and the ukrainian state, the ukrainian nation can be proud that it was born from its womb of such real spiritual leaders of ukraine who are the father and head of the ukrainian greek-cath

in the cat van for around four decades and one of the people who shamed the dock trip of the catholic church that period of time. as far as things moving forward, pectine pope benedictine xvi will lie in state, and then on thursday we have a funeral which is another remarkable event for the catholic church because you have the current pope, pope francis, who will be presiding over the funeral of his predecessor. that's really an unprecedented event, of course. of course, it's more than 600 years since a pope actually stood down from that office and pope benedict has been fairly reclusive in the last ten years or so, but still a big larger than life figure here for the catholic church. it will be a very remarkable event, and one of the things that pope benedict did want, he wanted the event to be small and fairly humble, but, of course, that's only possible to a certain extent with a large organization like the catholic church. >> something incredible to see on thursday. fred pleitgen, thank you. >>> prince harry is doing a series of candid interviews as he's preparing to release his new book

the chief theologian of the catholic church and there under pope john on the 2nd, it was his job to rein in elements within the church which seemed to be threatening disunity that gave him reputation of being an arch conservative and very strict. hold in god's rot via indeed the british pressed it. that was, that was an invention of the, of the british tabloids i believe. and really i think a very unfair, they also when he was, when he was a point when he was elected po for the british, one british tabloid at least, found a photograph of him in a, in a, in the hitler youth uniform and, and, and published that which was to say the least absolutely misleading and if not vicious as a criticism, because we know in 1939, everybody or young men at the age of 14 were drafted when they wanted or not, they had to lose. he had no choice a quick word about that. the ceremony itself is surprising to see a pope francis apparently replaced in the middle. yes, hope frances has been suffering various ailments in particular. he has it's not serious ailment as such, but extreme pain in his leg. one leg, a