charles only converted to catholicism on his death bed.hough he had 20 children, none of them were legitimate. he wasn't going to pass anything to his heirs, his most popular girlfriend was an actress and she stobed a mob by calling out, good people, i'm a protestant who so they let her go. >> james was an adult convert to catholicism and and also had a son. in england, catholicism meant the spanish armada and louis xiv. england could swallow a catholic king but not a string of them. so after james had a son in 1688, the nation rose up and it offered the crown to william of orange, who was james' nephew and son-in-law. he married his elder daughter, mary. the family, the house of stewart was like the sopranos in terms of its internal dynamics. and william accepted as a condition of being king of england a bill of rights, which parliament passed in 1689. these were going to be the rules for his rule. he was announcing that these were the principles that would guide him. and this was an advance on the magna carta, the right of petition was e

charles only converted to catholicism on his death bed. and although he had 20 children, none of them were legitimate, so he wasn't going to pass on anything to his heirs. one of his -- his most popular girlfriend was the actress nell gwyn, and she stopped a mob which was attacking her carriage by crying out, "good people, i am the protestant whore," so they let her alone. now, james was an honest, earnest and forthright adult convert to catholicism, and he also had a son. now in england in 1688, catholicism meant the spanish armada and louie the 14th. the spanish armada was history, but louie the 14th was very much alive. and england could swallow a catholic king, but they could not swallow a string of them. so after james had a son, in 1688, the nation rose up and offered the crown to william of orange, who was james' nephew and son-in-law. he had married his elder daughter, mary. the family of the house of stuart was sort of like the "sopranos" in terms of its internal dynamics. and william accepted as a condition of being king of engla

charles only converted to catholicism on his deathbed. and although he had 20 children, none of them were legitimate so he wasn't going to pass on anything to his heirs. one of his -- his most popular girlfriend was the actress nell gwynn and she stopped a mob which was attacked her carriage by crying out "good people, i'm the protestant whore" so they left her alone. [ laughter ] james was an honest, earnest and forthright adult convert to catholicism and he also had a son knew in england in 1688 meant the spanish armada and louis 14-. the spanish armada was history but louis xiv was very much alive. england could swallow a catholic king but they could not swallow a string of them. so after james had a son in 1688 the nation rose up and offered the crown to william of orange who was james' nephew and son-in-law. he'd married his elder daughter mary. the house of stewart was sort of like "sopranos" in turn of its internal dynamics. and william accepted as a condition of being king of england a bill of right which is parliament passed in 1

islam is like catholicism.ooking at catholicism at the time of the crusades, of course it is harsh at times. but what is harsh is when young people don't have a future -- i was at the refugee camps in lebanon. unicef, which does an amazing job -- i was almost in tears. 500,000 kids. 500,000. under the age of 14. and if we don't give them hope, there's only one place that they can go. charlie: actually, that reflects the dealings of a friend of mine, the former deputy director of the cia. saying we have to find an alternative narrative. you have to figure out at the core, it is as much about being able to break that bond that the people who are preaching this extreme version of fundamentalism -- you have to find out what an alternative narrative and how you can get to them with that, and that's what you have to do to stop it, and that's the only way you can stop it. because if you go here and you destroy isis, it will come up somewhere else, because isis came from al qaeda in iraq. tom: and this is the challenge

charles only converted to catholicism on his deathbed. and although he had 20 children, none of them were legitimate so he wasn't going to pass on anything to his heirs. one of his -- his most popular girlfriend was the actress nell gwynn and she stopped a mob which was attacking her carriage by crying out "good people, i'm the protestant whore" so they left her alone. [ laughter ] now, james was an honest, earnest fo

and while lincoln occasionally encountered french or spanish speaking immigrants or catholics or catholicism in his early years in indiana or illinois or on the ohio river, lincoln's trip to new orleans engulfed him in a different culture's ethnicity, ancestry, religion, language, race, cuisine, architecture and just shear urban size. it gave him the perspective that no other place in his life would provide. into the midst of this complex and contentious social, economic and political landscape walked a young abraham lincoln in 1828 and again in 1831. there was ethnic tension everywhere that lincoln went in new orleans. it was in the streets. it was in conversations. it was in the local press. newspapers, local newspapers, were filled with prejudice and scorn for one group or another. editors promised to their readers that their principles would be purely american. whatever that meant. an obvious portent to the american or no nothing party that would rise in the 1850s to exploit american at the scexeno. lincoln would have seen firsthand that some immigrants in the city were discriminated aga

why do they cling onto the catholicism, because it was a way for people to remain. remember henry the eighth tried to insist every man and woman follow the religion in the church followed by a serial killer. they are plundering and kicknd o them off at about 80% defensive on their own land. they say to this day one of the worst things is the curse beyony you. they sent 40,000 people or thereabouts in barbados and other parts following the congress in the distance still,, so they did everything they could for 700 years. he comes of age get elected to the wall by then but you get into parliament and certainly can't practice self-government. that sets up the stage for his coming astride. >> that begs the question i went to college in the late 60s and early 70s, so it's hard for me not to see parallels. how does a young wealthy irish man become a revolutionary? >> the great famine. i want to put this in context because there's been scholarship on this. of the potato on which the average irish depend on you could raise almost your whole family on an acre and put them int

that is a husband -- that is a reference to irish catholicism. this is an antiracist attempts to cite this is the type of things that democrats would see. and indeed democrats were. this is the only period in american history when a party try to win office by being antiracist. the republicans achieved that in 1968 and so on. it was very idealistic. >> i would agree with you and stand corrected, but i offer one caveat if i might. election back to 1964 lyndon johnson made it clear reelected andt self and change the democratic party what i would call not only antiracist but pro-empowerment of african-americans. if you remember his conversations with richard russell senator from georgia, where he predicted correctly that the democratic party would suffer in the south as a result of this initiative. sadly the same fishers your speaking of have occurred and haunted our politics since the last 40 years. making, only in this time did the republicans attempt to tag the other party as racist. you are absolutely right about lyndon johnson. i stand corrected

and while lincoln occasionally encountered french or spanish speaking immigrants or catholics or catholicism in his early years in indiana or illinois or on the ohio river, lincoln's trip to new orleans engulfed him in a different culture's ethnicity, ancestry, religion, language, race, cuisine, architecture and just shear urban size. it gave him the perspective that no other place in his life would provide. into the midst of this complex and contentious social, economic and political landscape walked a young abraham lincoln in 1828 and again in 1831. there was ethnic tension everywhere that lincoln went in new orleans. it was in the streets. it was in conversations. it was in the local press. newspapers, local newspapers, were filled with prejudice and scorn for one group or another. editors promised to their readers that their principles would be purely american. whatever that meant. an obvious portent to the american or no nothing party that would rise in the 1850s to exploit american xenophobia. lincoln would have seen firsthand that some immigrants in the city were discriminated against

in just two years, he has put catholicism back on the map as a faith that has something to offer a troubled. he's tackling big issues head on, accountability at the vatican bank, reform of the roman curia, and is driving a new vision of a church for the poor and marginalized. ♪ but can the man with a reputation as a divisive hardliner hold the roman catholic church together and revolutionize it at the same time? ♪ jorge bergoglio grew up in this home, in the middle class flores district of buenos aires. born in 1936 to italian immigrants, he was the eldest of five. he attributes his deep faith to his grandmother, rosa. (elisabetta) it was very, very important, the presence of the nonna rosa. a very strong woman, very catholic woman. all this family life, the mother, the father, this example of a family that would go all together to the church. (whimsical music) (narrator) it was in this confessional, at his local church in flores, that the 19-year-old jorge experienced a spiritual awakening that changed his life. ♪ (elisabetta) because he felt the call from god. he felt that god chose him.

the rise of catholicism and political resistance plays a role in breaking soviet power. that happens in part because of the environment gorbachev instills and reforms leading to more openness. part of it is because of economic pressure. part of that is tied to pressure u.s. put on them by spending more. because soviets can't afford to resist when u.s. goes in, because soviets decide that they can't afford to risk u.s. wrath when they see uprisings, there has been a bit of pullback. and then after that you have mix of george h.w. bush going around in '89 and '90 and '91. it is all of these things that it is sad to break it down to one had to have done it by themselves and not credit a broad group of people for bringing back a stunningly peaceful end and demise to an empire. >> thank you very much. i was very happy to be with you guys. >>> each night this week c-span 3 is showing american history tv program. tonight's programs are about president ronald reagan. beginning at 8:00 a former aid talks about ronald reagan's life and personality a. after that a look at dwight ei

so to save the theater takes up the space that catholicism that day culturally held traditions are noable and it makes us feel this way because he is secretly catholic king cannot help spark that i don't think we will know the answer to that question is amazing to think that we care about the reformation because of that. >> you are on booktv. >> i apologize for that. the times, but theport washington but the gentleman would ask the question is i think that has no validityscholn to pull that conspiracy theory simic many candidatesec have been selected as a secret author we have no reason to doubt he was anyone but the man from stratford space this fabulous craft then went back and retired. but for the interested in shakespeare in the fascination of the outside influence has led us to ask how can anyone be capable plays and stored hem in a magic box before his death, which seems unlikely. >> host: high school number 223 in the bronx, i just want to say happy birthday, that i really enjoyed twelfth night. and cecilia in tennessee, happy birthday, shakespeare. i love your work. my first p

some scholars have said, well, the theater takes up the space of the church at a moment in which catholicisms and deeply personally and spiritually-held traditions are no longer available. but people have also said, you know, look, shakespeare makes us feel that way about the theater because he's a catholic, right? because he's secretly catholic s and he can't help but spark that catholic feeling within his plays. i don't think we'll know the answer to those questions, but aren't they wonderful questions? and isn't it amazing to think that we still care about the reformation in part because shakespeare's such a vivid presence within it. >> host: next call for our two guests, ellen mackay of indiana university and michael witmore, director of the folger shakespeare library here in washington, is meg in new york. meg, you're on booktv. apologize for that. let's try gary in port washington, new york. >> caller: yes. i was going to ask about shakespeare being catholic and the times, but the gentleman asked the question, so i want to ask about the theory of shake peer's authorship -- shakespeare'

the rise of catholicism in poland, solidarity, political resistance, plays a role in fighting sovietower. it leads to more openness. but part of that is also because of the economic pressure. and part of that is tied to the pressure the u.s. has put on them by spending more and forcing them to compete. because the soviets can't afford to resist when the u.s. goes into gran ada, because the soviets decide they can't afford to risk the u.s.'s wrath when you see these uprisings pop up in eastern europe, there's a pullback as well. it's a mix of all of these things. it's george h. bush going around in '89, and '90, '91, it's boris yeltsin. it's sad that we want to break it down to one person did it buy themselves. a broad group of people can be credited for bringing about a stunningly peaceful end and demise of an empire. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. i was very happy to be here with you guys. >>> each night this week during the democratic convention, c-span3 is showing american history tv programming. tonight's programs are about president ronald reagan. beginning at 8:00 eastern

guest: regarding some candidates, catholicism, interesting. being a catholic cuts many different ways. she mentioned the abortion issue and apparently, tim kaine is one of the politicians in this country that does not personally support abortion but as a politician, i do not believe it is my job to impose that on the citizenry and that we should have reproductive rights basically. the same thing happened on the other end of the process with the death penalty. tim kaine has also said that he morley does not support the death penalty, which is the position of the cap and church but he oversees or he oversaw 11 executions while he was governor of virginia. being a catholic means many different things. he also went to central america as a missionary for a while, inspired by his catholic beliefs, so i think his religion and his faith really is relative to who he is. i think it is a part of his biography. host: kathleen in ohio, democrat line. you are on with will bunch with the "philadelphia daily news." caller: i have several points, but first, i

mentioned tim kaine and's conservative catholicism.ne is an interview he did which he talks about his view of religion. [video clip] for spiritual do reasons. everybody has motivations in life. whatever i am doing, i have an inner dialogue going that is a spiritual dialogue. what is the significance of a vote that i am taking? i am always thinking about the momentary reality, but the way the bigger with matters of what is important in life. i tried to approach my job that way. up front with people about it. not because i want anybody else to be me. i feel like sharing my motivation with others is a good thing. is how i can learn and get .o be better use,e a spiritual phrase i that was written by george fox. conveys as, it spiritual philosophy for me. walk cheerfully over the earth. thoughts and and. walk, move, be active, cheerfully. over the earth, get outside of your neighborhood, go abroad and go to new places. you cannot answer if you do not listen. there is a divine spark in each person. tot is my discipline i try use in what i do

very seriously there, which is very didifferent from france where--i know from my family that--catholicism in my famamily, and they are nominally catholic. it's a joke. i mean, the priest is always the butt of a funny story, is anan idiot, ad the way the catholic church is viewed by catholics in france, by many, is clownish. it has s o do with the french revolution. spain is not like that, so it's very serious so that it got protection in the early years because it was a project of the roman catholic church, and that gave them--plus, this is a part of spain thahat is its own ethnc group. it's called basque. b-a-s-q-u-e. basque. they have their own language. i'm good at languages. i cououldn't understd a word of it.t. and they speak ; it's not a language for festivals. it's a languauage of every day for many villages in this--it's a mountainous area. so they have an ethnic uniqueness, they're roman catholic, and ththe church protected, in a sense. they couldn't be attacked quite so eaeasily. it w wasn't as if thee communist party did this or something like that. it was the church. and final

guest: regarding some candidates, catholicism, interesting.cuts many different ways. she mentioned the abortion issue and apparently, tim kaine is one of the politicians in this country that does not personally support abortion but as a politician, i do not believe it is my job to impose that on the citizenry and that we should have reproductive rights basically. the same thing happened on the other end of the process with the death penalty. tim kaine has also said that he morley does not support the death penalty, which is the position of the cap and church but he oversees or he oversaw 11 executions while he was governor of virginia. being a catholic means many different things. he also went to central america as a missionary for a while, inspired by his catholic beliefs, so i think his religion and his faith really is relative to who he is. i think it is a part of his biography. host: kathleen in ohio, democrat line. you are on with will bunch with the "philadelphia daily news." caller: i have several points, but first, i watched the rnc co