and we serve catholics and non-catholics. >> your services are for catholics and non-catholics. >> and your staff is catholic and non-catholic. >> we serve everyone of all faiths. some of our employees are not catholic. they are of all faiths. different ethnic and racial identities as well. >> very good to know. we will take a brief break. we will come back and talk further about catholic charities today. >>> hello and welcome back. we are talking with helma minenez, the chief executive officer of catholic charities in the archdiocese of mosaic -- of san francisco. thank you for being here. the recent disasters, the floods down south and the fires in california -- when you look to see where you can make a donation or help -- among the prime candidates is catholic charities in these areas. catholic charities -- my impression of catholic charities in all areas of this country is that they are sort of prime sterling veteran proven purveyors of charity and good works. is that correct? do you have good standing and the philanthropic community? >> absolutely. and in the social services commu

the teenagers from the catholic school invited us to visit them in the evening. i mean as having a chat with muslim students in the school we are not that bothered by the fence to . think. about it but when animals killing each other up with this scandal is unnecessary and it harms the children. and the muslim students go to their favorite cafe just a few streets away. and. talk about. me is home to both me and muslims bosnian croat it's and bosnian serbs but they tend to live in different neighborhoods most of them say their ethnic backgrounds hardly play a role in their everyday lives anymore but mixed families are still rare. the main thing separating the three ethnicities in bosnia is religion bosniaks a muslim the croats a catholic and the serbs are all the dogs this seems to be no way to bridge the divide. am i now always used to go to this cafe with her friends to. a man may identify with her religion but like the students she feels like a nice. gentle cowboy you know when people in our country say that serbs are croats i think that's strange my friend her

she's a bosun encourage them was raised a catholic. her family lives in a predominantly croatian suburb. she. tells us that peace love and understanding really isn't on the curriculum. but never ok entry has three presidents to three different perceptions of history croats muslims serbs everyone wants to tell their own version of our history we can't agree on one version especially not on the wall. the county executive jet of national. the teenagers from the catholic school invited us to visit them in the evening. was. i mean i was having a chat with muslim students in the schoolyard that bothered by the fence to. think . about it but when animals killing each other that this scandal is unnecessary and it harms the children. in the muslim students go to their favorite cafe just a few streets away. because. the. me is home to both me and muslims bosnian croat it's and bosnian serbs but they tend to live in different neighborhoods most of them say their ethnic backgrounds hardly play a role in their everyday lives anymore but mixed famil

a catholic lives with his family in the shah. though of the short strands war as vivid memories of what happened. there was spread. on the smaller of short straw. and. a lot of it was called the tree of a particular spot because this was seen as a formal spot on the wall was a lot of time. here will leave. the whole everyone. destroyed. a good hour. and students in both improve. both in. two thousand people were hurt i mean. covered up so everything was very dark going. to not just me. but lives with her family place the other side of the wall the protestant side i actually moved in here in the troubles in two thousand today because. other people here had children. and. by the people next door. we needed people to move in here that want to freed eleven here so i. and i moved in. she was at the head with a brick and it was just and the allies over there. said their man your own business talking to. the wall here between the two communities has become the focal point of this conflict this is not a spot between neighbors but the bat

democratic republic of congo the anti-government demonstrations were organized by local leaders of the catholic church. the delay in the presidential election. a plan to repatriate hundreds of thousands rangar refugees to miramar is due to begin on tuesday bangladesh i'm in agreed to send back around seven hundred and fifty thousand refugees who fled ethnic violence in iraq since october two thousand and sixteen the program is set to take two years and many refugees say they're feeling pressured to return home and a worries about their safety united nations says no one should be forced to retire . a motorcycle bomb has exploded at a market in southern thailand killing three people and injuring dozens more is the first attack of its kind of months in the region where ethnic molay muslims have been fighting for autonomy a train has crashed in the australian city of sydney injuring at least thirteen people but failed to break in time and hit a barrier at the end of the line the city's northwest witnesses described the scene as chaotic there's i had lines are back with more news after walls of sham

al smith is a catholic. this longest political convention on record went for 103 ballots but it became known as the clan make because they need vetoed the nomination of al smith and bend the democratic party lost the election and i'm not saying that he could have one but there is one little thing about the convention. they had quite a lot of strengtf strength in new jersey and giving the convention on several nights, they put up a cross claiming that it was 40 feet high and on the new jersey side it could be seen if you walked from madison square garden to the river. incidentally, theoretically they started to mainly use light bulbs. they didn't really use technology, that i think far more important what happened is that immigration restriction act of 1924. some of you may not be familiar with it, but it set to 'for the different groups of people who could be allowed to come. big quote us for white and very small )-close-paren -- in other words, this wall enacted exactly the clan's hierarchy of the races. an

there catholics and i says here actually had no basic human rights the had no food right now had all those traits taken away from. us in nineteen ninety eight all the political parties signed up to the good friday agreement breaking three decades of deadlock it established a power sharing assembly and paved the way for the withdrawal of british troops on the disbanding of our a military group. after many false starts the assembly assumed its full power in may two thousand and seven the sworn enemies of yesterday unionist leader ian paisley and the republican leader martin mcguinness became first minister and deputy first minister. of what northern ireland has now is not so much peace as an absence of conflict far from disappearing the walls have grown instead of reconciliation there is partition and tempered stalemate of separate identities and separated lives there is huge pressure surgery in very large for treatment. working through. kids going to school in different schools country schooling all foreigners in school it would just not mix. consequence of the rules in the moves the

so you grew newspaper an irish catholic home. >> very catholic and irish like you. >> stephen: yeah, youngest of ten. >> stephen: youngest of 11. it is great to be the baby of the big family. >> yeah. >> stephen: how catholic are we talk smg are we talking daily, commun, ca, daily nofinas, nuns. >> very catholic, so catholic that when i played barbie dolls i would have catholic scenarios, i would have confessionals for the barbies and one christmas i got a stretch armstrong doll and i was like he will make a perfect priest, he's so big and stretchy! i would make the barby-- father, forgive, father armstrong, forgive me for i have sinned. and they would, so i had sexy catholic sceb arios. and-- scenarios. >> stephen: that is extremely catholic. >> >> stephen: father what a waste. >> but then yeah, and my dad was very catholic. he went on a retreat once, a recovery catholic retreat and he came back and we would be ordering takeout at manners, the local dinner he would go get our burgers for my sister mary and i go and while you are waiting in the car say hail maries. eh that is too cat

the four monks have found temporary living quarters in the catholic rectory. but to be fully functioning the monastery will need at least eight monks along with guest rooms and work areas and this house would be too small one alternative is a building that until two hundred years ago how's the abbey administration. is the foundation offered us eighty percent of the building but eighty percent means that twenty percent of it will be occupied by others so. in this case it would be residential parts of the boarding school. we decided against that because we see some potential conflict between the life style of the monks and the life of a boarding school. wouldn't leave my this in its. the building in question also houses a music school that belongs to a private high school for many years it's been the main tenant in the abbey complex as we all thought. it would be crazy for us to leave the building unless we were offered an acceptable alternative. we're not against monk settling here and i'm just pointing out potential problems. i certainly do not want to reduce

-- catholics or a body. [laughter] but the evangelicals were at the top of the heat with episcopalians. moving up in society even when i visited the falwell church in 1980 but most of that was the mainland protestant working with those evangelicals because they had proven more effective. >> and that is declining. the first time. but it is declining but have fewer children. it is probably true of all multicultural or meant on -- anything that could not assimilate it is hard to see how it has much of a future. we are just about out of time. thanks for your excellent book. [applause] you are invited to the book signing you are invited to the book signing b5. [inaudible conversations] wow. good evening everyone.

now he's giving religious instruction in the catholic elementary school in. the money he earns will help support the abbey. in the name of the father the son and the holy spirit and men. we can say that together right. this is. what we've traced our foot and now we'll write our names on it nice and clearly like this you know think about what the person whether they're still alive or not you'd really like to meet on your own. guns gun like guns like the one. today i'm victoria mass and i'd like to meet my grandma because i only saw her once in my life. she smokes so much that she died and i couldn't say goodbye to her. when was that last year that's last year. we'll be praying for all those who have died. this moment i will do that at the end and include everyone i know. you have one of the nicest classrooms when you look out here you look directly at my new home that you all know about right now be over there. i would really like to meet jesus for a lot of reasons. first because we believe that jesus christ is god. god lived in this world as a person. just li

she is also a catholic and is well equipped to negotiate with the monks this is. the talks take place in the rectory there are many issues to be resolved before the monks confound the nortel or priory. by church law it will be subordinate to the abbot of highly can quite but it will be economically independent so it'll have to generate income it's not even clear yet where the monks will live and crucially how they'll be able to use the cloister section of the complex. originally the church had direct access to the cloister but the door was bricked up during the baroque reconstruction. the cloister was the main common room in the monastery today it's part of a museum with a visitor information center. here where cistercian monks once strolled through the noise cellar coaster today the monks from austria can learn something about their new home. in the tourist brochure it says. a bohemian oasis in brandenburg more than seven hundred twenty five years ago henry the illustrious margrave of mice and endowed the cistercians with a monastery in north cellar today it's th

things do not happen again francis is also facing controversy on another front arson attacks on catholic churches militant groups are protesting what they see as the church's role in oppressing the rights of indigenous people. the pope is set to meet with the indigenous people on wednesday . thanks for watching we'll see you next doc. w.'s program guide on the internet. with the whole. dot com highlights. the freedom of expression. a value that always has to be defended the new. over the world. of freedom freedom of art. a multimedia project about artists and their right to express their views freely. d.w. dot com the freedom. that. when the lady in white weighs a veil. will stalk the land or death will steal into the councils. when she smiles then happiness will reign in these holes. telkom so is the ideal breeding ground for fairy tales and legends. centuries now the restless soul of about a funnels and bell has flitted through the. like an island of peace the czech town of telco is located midway between prague and vienna where the borders of bohemia moravia and lower austria meet. in

today there at this middle class catholic high school just outside manila. after a song on the listen begins with self-worth i knew about the person because i did tell the person you are amazing. then condoms the difference between the sexes every night before. i mean because that's just like me i mean or guys this is why it's a female because just like a female or a guy it's like that it's like only that you know what. and it all goes back to one message abstinence is the only way when. sex. gives her and not only yourself but also her for. the reason why we are so we don't believe. you know why. because we believe in our. own daughter. since. it is over see here. she is and yes. what happens today was amazing because at this age curiosity this triggering we're starting to be thirsty we're starting to starve for things that shouldn't be done by us at the stone age the students endorsement of live pure is one thing but they curiosity has many of them turning to social media and pornography. because i am incapable of doing it. said to say that it's normal for

but of a more real frantic of the protesters in the democratic republic of congo unites catholic leaders against the country's president. however we've got plenty of crisp once a sun shine across much of north they say we had some snow across the northeast of china recently lost a clear skies coming through now and that's produced a very pretty picture in the same province where we've got the arrive on the trees and the snow fails as in clear blue skies coming through behind on the chilly side certainly feeling rather cold at least the winds not too strong but minus to the top temperature there for that of our stop plus two for pyongyang four degrees celsius four so not seep out across much of japan and we will see some rain and some statement to the north of the country as we go when it's a monday temperatures in tokyo getting up to around eleven degrees celsius a touch woman that for shanghai at thirteen degrees celsius was the sunshine there across southern parts of china and it stays that way as we go on into monday getting up to around twenty celsius there in hong kong again with so

the democratic republic of congo unites catholic leaders against the president. hello the weather is pretty quiet now across central and southern parts of china so some pleasant sunshine coming for many thirteen celsius there in shanghai the south westerly breeze nineteen degrees there for hong kong maybe a tad warmers to go on in some states and nothing much to speak of here little bit of cloud just around the south china sea pushing towards central parts of vietnam so a possibility of one of two shabbas here and i do want to show as to just drifting their way into sri lanka into the fosse south of in the visibility problems do remain in place further north across the northern plains even though we do have something of a rather more brisk breeze coming into new delhi hoping to improve things slightly but we could still do with a stiffer wind than that twenty one twenty two celsius there for new delhi then karate gets up to around twenty eight degrees and still as you can see want to show is that just like the colombo thirty one celsius now we're not quite as war

angeles also coming up pope francis on a difficult visit and she like the pontiff faces a weakened the catholic church they're leading followers after a wave of sex abuse scandals involving priests. and top served politician all over yvon of it just gunned down in kosovo triggering fears of new tensions with serbia a look at what is killing could mean. to have you with us we open with a disturbing story out of california or police say they have freed thirteen siblings who were allegedly imprisoned by their own parents the victims range in age from two years to twenty nine police say they were alerted by a teenage daughter who managed to escape and call nine one one. authorities were shocked at what they found hidden in this quiet suburb describing him a seated captives in foul smelling surroundings with padlocks and shackles. neighbors described the family as reclusive the children nearly invisible. they were the type that you didn't really get to know anything about them they were very. themselves in a sense childish so old they only kept themselves so old and the only time you would see them

catholic faithful in kinshasa hold a mass for people killed by police in reason political unrest the charge had called for protests a new year's eve after the expiry of a political deal between the ruling party and opposition signing to sixteen when the presidential election failed to happen the politicians had agreed to for the poor last december that did not happen either the deal had been brokered by the catholic church was shocked and ashamed by the. disorder and. victim or why desire to hang on to power at a cemetery a distance away for tacky to shake and his friends carry his father's body for burial joseph attacker was a staunch catholic they say he tried to seek refuge in the church a police kept shooting levy him in every human being is seconds it's the responsibility of the government to protect people. he was one of more than forty million catholics in the country that's more than half the population with such a big following many people feel that the charge has the power to push harder for political change many congolese are increasingly looking to words the catholic char

in the mid fifteenth century things became more peaceful husain and catholic churches each accepted the existence of the other the town lay at the crossroads of important trade routes its burgers brewed beer and salt salt. tell the castle was taken over by the high adage family since fifteen twenty six they've been faithful servants of the house of halves book and even more devout catholics. thus the lady in white raised her veil and went about the council with a smile on her lips because happier times were about to dawn. in fifteen fifty exactly riots the second son of the chancellor of bohemia. might tell his residents craftsman was to work right up to the last minute to have turned these part of the medieval castle into a representative palace in time for zacharias is waiting. a year later zacharias undertook a journey to italy with another bohemian heiress to craft a fashionable step at the time they studied antiquity and italian architecture from then on it was clear to this ambitious nobleman that rene sounds beauty should also adorn moravia. time was pressing because a mistress w

and the closing of catholic schools. >> mommy most catholics are not necessarily coming to church onxtraordinarily valuable. >> using social media the bishop hopes to bring some older catholics back to the church and epp courage younger ones to give faith chance. his method to meet catholics where they are. in fact, where most of us are. online. >> our goal is to unite people. not divide people. i think the church has to be a positive force to help young people and young adults be formed in way that's going to make them healthy, happy, joyful and future leaders of our society and the church. >> sharon crowley forks news. >>> surprise of a lifetime an 81-year-old kentucky man is now driving around in a newly restored 1957 chevy bell air. look at his reaction at the big reveal. let me tell you why this is so important to him. it's all thanks to his grandson. he and his grandpa have been very close sharing a passion for classic cars and a year ago cam decided to restore his grandpa's old chevy bell air as birthday present didn't tell him grandpa about it but did he chronicle the project

in the catholic way, two verses. president talked about how we are wrestling with this at georgetown. many of you know it is taking on very direct original, historical reality with the broader understanding of the sale of human beings to support the college of university. the very definition of white privilege. people ask why has georgetown's response been different than other places. there are many reasons. one of them is sitting next to me. the work of the group on slavery, memory, and reconciliation. there are two things we should think about tonight. one is religious convictions on human life and dignity, about human rights and justice, about solidarity, that gives different way of looking at world. the other has been the leadership of our president. instead of trying to evade her -- evade or escape or minimize, has taken this head on. he helped us had gone away forward. moral principles of leadership. we need.e -- are things we need. we witnesses additions and people have been a big part of the problem and solut

i'm catholic. you know, there is an entrance procession, they stand, they sirk sit, they don't kneel, but they are tempted. there is clapping, sometimes booing. it's gotten so bad who was it that said you lie to the president of the united states. but my memories of the house chamber are not about state of the union. they are when pope francis was here a couple years ago and i had the privilege of being in the chamber. never seen it that quiet. i've never seen people that happy frankly. seems like the only thing they could agree on was they wanted to be with the pope. and he had a different message. he said each son or daughter of a given country has mission, a personal and social responsibility. your responsibility as a member of congress and i would suggest also as people who work with congress is to enable this country by your legislative activity to grow as a nation. you are called to defend and preserve the dignity of your fellow citizens, the tireless and demanding pursuit of the common good,

yes they got the church has been applying that catholic social teaching which. social justice. the had the opportunity to influence the course of history and the democratic republic of congo by being frustrated by both sides when i think of the deal for this and not. clearly that the possibility to do to compromise and bring in another level and yawned when we had today it was president and then he went back to the then and here we are we know nothing. in the hand to influence anything going on right now so the right now i believe the on the crisis is not the condition who you know the mccarton of all of because they are hoping that and so is your condition that the being the neutral force individuals or if you inject why have regional powers appear to be so reluctant to push the baler into it to holding elections sooner rather than later. regional powers or international power. has spoken and continues to call on. government action but. oncet really is quite unique and we're the only. relying on outside forces. in this gen going to belgium. and colliding with the colonial powe

the most painful countries in the world now less than fifty percent of chileans call themselves catholic and one of the reasons is the number of children

a catholic church here in chile.for us in santiago to tell if following the pope's visit there are thank you very much thank you and our french president is in calais to unveil plans to stop academic migrants from descending on the port city in a bid to reach britain my car visited a migrant center ahead of the keynote speech expected to outline france's new immigration law he's applied to speed up the processing of asylum applications and ensure those people rejected will be dealt with quote more firmly. from the signal and these are some pictures here of that speech where our president. in telling us really want him in a book that gives a lot lisa lewis has been following all of those for us that lisa what is the president been touching on in this speech well president marc or is in calif at this very moment to show that this situation in the region is on the way to get back on track in an economic way because companies have been suffering over the past decades from that stigmatization of that region and have makin

asia's largest catholic country is witnessing a dramatic rise in teenage pregnancy. when used investigates why so many filipino children are having babies. at this time when al-jazeera. russia joins turkey in denouncing a u.s. plan to form a border security force in syria. and jailed on this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up palestinian leaders call for the p.l.o. to suspend recognition of israel. pope francis begins his visit to chile find out about the controversy overshadowing his church. and the star american gymnasts of the rio olympics simone biles says she is among dozens of athletes sexually abused by a former team doctor. taking syria and russia have criticized a u.s. plan to form a thirty thousand strong border security force in northern syria turkey's president accused washington of trying to create a terror army and pledged to quote drown it before it comes into being and the syrian government has vowed to drive the u.s. presence from its territory the u.s. says a force will secure areas along syria's border to the north with turkey and to the e

i am catholic. there is the entrance experience, a stand, they said, there is ritual clapping, sometimes doing. it has gotten so bad, who was it that said -- you lie? to the president of the united states? my memories are not about the state of the union, they are about when pope francis was here a couple of years ago. i had the privilege of being in the chamber. i had never seen people that happy, or quiet. it seemed like the only thing they could agree on was that they wanted to see the pope. and here a different message. he said, each son and daughter of any given country has a personals show responsibility. as a member of congress, your responsibility and also as people who work for congress, as to enable your country by its legislative activity, to grow as a nation. you are called to defend and preserve the dignity of your fellow citizens, the tireless and demanding pursuit of the common good. for this is the chief aim of all politics. that is not where we are, today. calling politics of vocati

weren't just sunday catholics. they were everyday catholics and that's what the -- his family and what the society was like there, and it is affected him in a couple of ways. first of all, his concern for average people, and his concern for your fellow man, and then of course as i reveal in the book, he was a drinker at one point in his life, actually, i think, since high school, basically. he went to a catholic military high school and he was like -- even said it's the irish catholic thing and your machismo is rated by how much you're drinking, and he was drinking in college. but he didn't say he was quite an alcoholic. the way he put it to me was that i didn't have a drinking problem, but i didn't have a drinking solution, either. which is kind of finessing it, i guess, but the mid-1990s he realized is it was starting to affect his work too much and he tells a story how he came home to watch his daughter play basketball, might have been coach egg the team. i forget. because he had been working in europe where he

leaders of the catholic church in the democratic republic of congo have vowed to continue to fight for justice for months demonstrators have been demanding that president kabila step down his term expires a year ago the church has been behind many of those rallies catherine sora reports from the capital kinshasa. catholic faithful in kinshasa hold mass for people killed by police in recent political unrest the charge had called for protests a new year's eve after the expiry of a political deal between the ruling party and opposition signing to sixteen when the presidential election failed to happen the politicians had agreed to for the poor last december that did not happen either the deal had been brokered by the catholic church. and. society. at a cemetery a distance away for tacky to shake and his friends carry his father's body for burial joseph attacker was a staunch catholic they say he tried to seek refuge in the church a police kept shooting him in. every human being. it's the responsibility of the government to protect people. he was one of more than forty million catholics in

i considered myself at the age of 12 a proud catholic apologists. . i read books to find out how catholic case where the blessed virgin for increased celibate and for the bible needing tradition. >> and today i can still quote bits of scripture that backup battery catholic sentiments of the anointing. >>. >>. >> my family in catholicism, marjorie, but consider this. the african mutation of romance catholicism with its cultural and not-so-subtle discernment of pre-christian africa. to be baptized you had to choose an english theme because english was christian and african religions were not, apparently. i went to mass every sunday all dressed up and after mass we took a drive to town to get newspapers. mass fascinated me. the drama, the ritual. at easter, i cried during each mass at night. when people lit candles and then raise them up in the dark and it felt like a sea of stars. i knew the awards participating said in mass and i would sometimes repeat them under my breath. >> sometimes i even wanted to be a priest. not a none, which seemed to me a sub

the most painful countries in the world now less than fifty percent of chileans call themselves catholic and one of the reasons is the number of children who have been sexually abused by priests and even a nun these catholics came all the way from southern chile they wanted to be here when the pope passed so that he would see how upset they are with him for appointing a bishop to their city who is accused of covering up abuses. we have to do something we have to clean up the church we are angry at the heads of the church who have closed old doors to us indeed the pope's visit to chile has brought survivors of clerical sex abuse from all over the world to pressure the pope to make good on promises of zero tolerance of predators there are all priests in this country who are still in ministry eve some have even been. prosecuted and convicted for abuse but then they are put back into ministry come up possibly be the right. but there were many here who were overjoyed to see pope francis when he mounted his popemobile. who says he hopes the pope's visit will help unify chileans organizers tell

sexual abuse in the catholic church. let's get more from our latin america turn to see newman who's live for us in santiago so. just lot of we're watching these live pictures of him coming in but it's not the kind of reception he's used to visit. and he yes he arrived just a couple of minutes ago and he should be making his way to where i am right now in about thirty minutes time this is centavos biggest avenue largest there affair and there are crowds gathering as you can see but a lot of them are holding protest posters signs telling the pope that he needs to take more care to really do what he says he will do he says there are people who have come of kilometers from the south of chile for example to complain about the fact that he named a bishop who has been accused of covering up sex abuses within the church of sex abuse of minors even though the people from his parish had begged him not to do that just one of many complaints against the pope there are a lot of the signs here are meant for him to see as he drives by