himself, he calls evangelical catholic. easter.dinal dolan: god bless you and thanks for calling in. you are our neighbor in connecticut. thanks for bringing that up. you kind of verified what i said earlier. in every crisis, in every adversity, there is a renewal to trust. thank you for reminding us that god didn't send this to us. biblical toun- believe that. some people will say, why is god punishing us? god has told us he doesn't work that way and his son jesus has told us, my father doesn't work that way. i think he's crying as well. remember two weeks ago at sunday mass, we had the reading of jesus raising lazarus from the dead. at theint, jesus cries tomb of lazarus. saying, this isn't how my father wanted it. he didn't want death. he didn't want sickness. it entered the world through an abuse of free will and the power of the evil one. but god will always restore us. why is gody, punishing us like this? where is the invitation from the lord in this crisis? what is god trying to teach us? i appreciate your comments about vic

in 2016 the 1st rule began to come down here and the catholic republican area of joint. ministers have vowed that all the rules will be demolished by 2023. the demolition of the are doing will is a symbolic milestone but not all of its structure has actually come down yet. danny meets local residents to find out why they were there at the residence to feign see if we need to be in a certain spirit when they made secure because they're the ones you know but if you look further down the road you'll say another part of the wall that was played up that's on the back of people's homes so what does sachs what it was about this strike that more people at the minute just don't face but up there to come. let's just go to states were the. people. are doing is an area historically notorious for violence. fear that these conflicts may continue to flare up today leads many to seek protection behind the law. but some residents believe that barry is not the solution to today's troubles. where they were 1st cheap. you know a lot of people told the troubles well do you. look at. the prof

a catholic lives with his family in the shadow of the short strand. as vivid memories of what happened. there was widespread. on the smaller of short straw. and. a lot of it because a trigger thrust at this particular spot because this was seen as a formal spot on the wall was floor to time. here will leave. the whole everyone the. girl george bush destroyed. our. children and students in both came true. both in. 2000 people were hurt i mean. covered up through everything it was very dark going. to not use the. lives with her family place the side of the wall the protestant side i actually moved in here in the troubles in 2000 today because. the other people in here had children. and. by the people next door. we needed people to move in here that want to freed 11 here so i. and i moved in. she was at the head in the back and that was just and the allies over there. just said their manual. talking to. the wall here between the 2 communities has become the focal point of this conflict this is not a spot between neighbors but the battle line of a war bet

how did the luther rose find its way to this very catholic town. right holes in cindy if english and consumed thousands of lutheran christians were formally invited to a palm sunday perception before that they don't really ever been spectators. since then they join in so i thought that much to be a special thanks for the lutheran history because that's why i had to sign this box this week of the wish that it. made while at the shrillness home we've gathered a few top hats let's see which of them fits you us 20 year old richard still in there wants to follow in his father's footsteps and assume the family's office as one of the ceremonial platform bearers not. the time to find out if one of the hats they borrowed actually fits. but this one's a bit too small isn't it. for some 32 years carried the last figure in the perception the holy step of her formal dress has always been a military. finally the 4th that they try fits but it's his father's will have to share it is once the entire. just as they'll share the route father paul plans to take over fo

the health and whereabouts of north korea's leader after he was a no show at a key anniversary as catholics head back to church in south korea we ask if life they could slowly be returning to normal and concerns in zimbabwe that are locked down extension will worsen a food crisis already affecting half the population to in. the end. the 5 year long fight for control of yemen has taken a new turn southern separatists based in the port city of aden have declared a state of emergency and autonomous rule the southern transitional council blames the saudi backed government for failing to improve the lives of yet many's the government's foreign minister says the move will have a serious and catastrophic consequences for an agreement signed in november aimed at uniting the 2 sides let's take a closer look at the divisions when the whole thiis began seizing major cities in 2015 southern separatist joined government forces and the saudi iraqi coalition to fight them the u.a.e. funded the southern fighters to help retake aden internationally recognized government was re-installed there but yemen's pr

the catholic church is clearly decadent in various ways.rge institution struggling, with slow-motion decline and decadence rather than crack up, even the francis pontificate ended up. as for what the church should be doing, it is a tricky question for the hierarchy, and an archbishop supervising the church, or on high for politicians the conditions of decadence. if you throw yourself into revolution or dramatic transformation it may make things worse. trying to steward the ship as it exists for as long as it exists. that makes it much more important for catholic institutions and figures who have the capacity to be more number and adaptable to think about what renewal from within looks like and you can take the roman case study, and forces of catholic renewal as christians within this imperial context. and the vatican is not necessarily going to persecute reformers but there is still a sense you are trying to breathe life into an institution from within and that means figuring out, i will give you one example, context. what does the american

on palm sunday the sunday before easter catholics from the central german town gather in precession to bear witness to the sufferings of christ. then 50 men carry these larger than life wooden figures through the town. in the form of bearer in our family from you but my great grandfather was the 1st then my grandfather and my father my father. does a highlight for us a highlight for the whole town. that. sense $1581.00 catholics have been staging this holy week procession and highly can start it resembles a passion play each palm sunday they carry huge figures around the town center portraying the sufferings of christ. jesuits introduced the tradition as part of their strategy to subvert the attraction of the protestant reformation in the region. the consulate was almost the procession is really remarkable because it has survived told a vicissitudes of history it was done in like you meant secularization and superiors that the pope described as godless dictatorships. it's a very strong christian. unwitnessed from a small region at the heart of germany in bushland. today the passion pro

i am catholic. but unfortunately, with this situation, the right thing to do is stay home and protect your loved ones and people that are with you. and i also was thinking about, for the two weeks that we are going to reach the apex line, why can't we have martial law? bring the soldiers in and make sure everybody has to stay in. because if everybody stays in, the chances of the high-risk spreading, and then they don't have to worry about the ventilators and things that nurses need more. i have a dear friend that was a nurse, negative, thank god, but she's going back in to take care of people. and that is what it is about. but i truly believe that the president is saying we are going to get through it -- unless we all truly work together, everybody, all the politicians, it is going to be a little more difficult. steve: thank you for the call. john: the three most important words from the american founding our, we the people. it is in our hands. i'm not a fan of sending troops into the streets. i don

player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the battle also coming up as catholics head back to church in south korea we ask if life there could slowly be returning to normal. the mystery deepens about the health and whereabouts of north korea's leader after he was a no show at a key anniversary class. on call recent northern sweden where a rare court victory for the indigenous saw me people against the swedish state has led to a series of revenge attacks on their way into. the end. the 5 year long fight for control of yemen has taken a new turn 7 separatist based in the port city of aden have declared a state of emergency and autonomous rule the southern transitional council blames the saudi backed government for failing to improve the lives of the a many's the government's foreign minister says the move will have serious and catastrophic consequences for an agreement signed in riyadh in november aimed at uniting the 2 sides at a let's take a closer look at the divisions in yemen on the whole fees began seizing major cities in $2157.00 separatist joint government forces and

>> guest: it was catholic. >> host: all the options was catholic trejo all options were catholic. >> host: how serious were you about your -- >> guest: i was pretty serious edge of the was conflict potential leaving the school in leading my high school program guide to go play somewhere else. i was serious enough i tried it a few times with saint anthony's in jersey city and the tryouts went well and he invited me -- i could've transferred schools and tried my luck it being on the team when i was 15, 16. but at the last moment i decided i couldn't, i didn't have the desire to leave this girl i was madly in love with, the kind of enormously influential in my racial self conception as well as my kind of -- >> host: tell us about what that means because in a way your experience with blackness household is that say eccentric, unusual but she was your kind of access to what you might call normal blackness. >> guest: part of what i realize my father whistling the segregated south in many ways, a texas upbringing that caused some pain, and my mother was fleeing a kind of stifling racism com

i didn't meet children of other faith until i got to georgetown in 1989 outside of the catholic faith. [inaudible conversations] it wasn't until i got to grad school at nyu that i had been outside of catholic education. >> host: how did it go? you said it wasn't -- it sounds as if you thank you got the best spots of your education at home but what happened in the schools? since we talk about race and what is the composition of the school population? >> guest: my mother is technically a white anglo protestant saxon but she is not. her face is -- she's drive from anglo-saxon stock but that's as far as it goes. that was my experience and i grew up in new jersey around my parents would refer to as ethnic whites. polish kids, italian kids, iris kids, greek kids and that was my experience and even portuguese and spanish kids so they tended to be catholic and they tended once i got to college i realize they tended not to be at all this kind of elite white. >> host: they were not college-bound. >> guest: many were not. these are the kids in your neighborhood but also the kids in her school. >

there is a sort of trans- humanist, post-human scenario that as a catholic i would oppose it under mynitions would count as an escape. so in that sense, it is and that all progress is good. but i guess what i do think is that society that we have built up is a society that expects and depends on the progress and it's hard to imagine getting back to the society where that is not a big part of what is expected and so on. so, id don't think, as much asi find a certain kind of agrarian perspective and appealing in certain ways, i don't think there is a kind of pasota robles window retreat from then' modern world. there is for some people and communities but not for the culture in the world. in that sense i think that the alternatives are succeeding in finding new ways to grow or stagnating rather than finding the arcadia again. >> let me ask two more questions before we turn to the audience for questions and comments. so, what are some -- you entertain the alternatives. the liberal democracy this is what is happening there is that a response to this or a re- envisioning of society or is i

plus now a free man the highest profile member of the catholic church ever to be jailed for child sex abuse has his convictions overturned and to bring you the latest. until now a lot of the welcome to the program britain's prime minister boris johnson has been moved to intensive care in a london hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worse and johnson tested positive 10 days ago and was taken to hospital at the weekend because his symptoms one not going away but on monday his condition deteriorated. the british prime minister spent another night at this hospital in central london in late march he was diagnosed with kobe at 19 and spent 10 days in self isolation before he was admitted to hospital on sunday on monday afternoon he insisted there was no cause for concern and tweeted this last night on the advice of my doctor i went to the hospital for some routine tests as i'm still experiencing coronavirus symptoms i'm in good spirits and keeping in touch with my team as we work together to fight this virus and keep everyone safe hours later downing street said his situation had worsen

powell was once treasurer of the vatican he was the most severe catholic official to be convicted of child sex abuse let's go live now to sydney to 0 as the clock gauge is there were reasons that led to the court give for overturning couple pelz conviction. for one year since a jury found cardinal george pell guilty and one year since he was placed in jail he will be walking free 7 justices of a strictly as highest court ruled that tells child sex abuse convictions should be quashed and that he should be immediately released from victoria's barwon prison now because of coronavirus social distancing measures there was only a handful of people in court to hear this ruling it was posted online afterwards and the reasoning the court to gave was that the jury as well as the victorian court of appeal should have given more weight to the alibi evidence of witnesses who said that there wouldn't have been enough time for george pell abuse these 2 choir boys that he would have been other people with other people at the time that the prosecution alleges that these offenses took place and that s

how does this decadence analysis applied to the catholic church today, and what should the catholic churchesonse to the present decadence status quo look like? thanks. >> sure. sondol i think you can see this argument, so my last book for those of you who missed it, was an analysis, sort of analysis of the controversies in the church in the first four or five years of the francise pontificate wih me taking a more conservative side and in think of fairly critical in certain cases with the holy father but also are doing that some of the changes people around him were pushing for were all really dramatic moment and catholic history with the potential to create schisms down the road. i think you could see this book as a kind of qualifier to the analysis, that to the extent i think the t evidence of the 2.5 years since i wrote my wrote my book is that decadence and catholicism itself is more powerful than maybe i thought when is writing the book. and again, as a conservative who was doubtful if some of the reforms being considered in rome, i'm rooting for decadence in the centerline rooting for a

to the program pope francis has been saying a live streamed east a mass as the world's 1300000000 catholics celebrate the holiday under lockdown francis has been speaking and sent pages basilica to a small audience a star in the end is the end of holy week rather one of the most important dates of the christian calendar but this year also says have been held in private as the coronavirus restrictions kate most of the faithful at home during the holidays good for them. and it's cross now to martin gak database of religious affairs correspondent martin what does the pope's speech mean for catholics at a critical moment like this. i think that one should keep in mind. you know in many ways the church has become essentially the very source of solace and the very source of companionship for many people that right no are in a state of complete isolation i mean this is a case for i think broad broad swaths of the catholic world so i think that essentially 2 things are happening the 1st one he said we have a certain degree of you know social and community isolation means that people do not have eve

this roman catholic priest is a bit of a maverick. father in hell is in charge of the church of sun and on it parish in the heart of madrid is one of the most unusual in spain yet there when there are a number of positively has played santa whenever he can the 81 year old starts his day with a walk around the church that our you father and him they developed by and you do you have sandwiches in the over the top of the little everyday volunteers provide breakfast and lunch for homeless people for impoverished pensioners and for others who can't afford to feed themselves. but i already know my kids get there until like something sweet a very hungry. at its. most churches in spain open their doors only for services son anton never closes. there are toilets baby changing facilities and drinking water. but it was hell had to fight long and hard for his 24 hour church in 2015 the bishop gave him permission to revamp the inside of san antonio hard to use were replaced with comfortable chairs now anyone can rest prayed for sleep here. many ho

church year as basically instructed the catholics to stay at home and watch online masses but there have been exceptions it remains to be seen what will happen today but most likely what we'll be seeing basically are was the online masses and a few other concessions in the streets more than 30000000 people in brazil have signed up for emergency financial relief as long as down the street sins affect the economy the government is trying to streamline the payment process of the thousands lined up at tax offices this week because of bureaucratic hold ups informal workers are entitled to claim $118.00 a month health authorities have appealed to the public to stay at home after large gatherings were halted in several big cities our latin america is alyssa newman reports on the impact across the region. body stickum posing on the streets or inside houses in ecuador is tropical severe blow. cemeteries in funeral parlors can't cope with the demand and the government can only offer a cardboard coffin the latest victims. it's already a catastrophe long before infections from cold 19 reach the

church year as basically instructed the catholics to stay at home and watch online masses but there have been exceptions it remains to be seen what will happen today but most likely what we're seeing basically are mostly online masses and a few other concessions in the streets tell me about mass testing then. i mean as we say the 1st state day that it's happening in the capital but it's a big country there's a lot of people this is going to take a long time to roll out. well yes definitely i mean something there's been growing clamor for mass testing kemal but it's something that the government says niti time 1st not only because of the ability of the kit but the ability of laboratories that can process these kits for testing so far around 15 laboratories have already been recognized by the department of health can process but mass testing essentially means millions need to be tested so at this point for example one of the stories we did recently was a story about a local city decided to do a localized target at mass testing which means given what they have they are going to start t

how does the decadence analysis apply to the catholic church today and what should the catholic church'sresponse be to the status quo decadence look like. >> you can see this argument so my last book, for those who missed it, was an analysis of the controversies in the church in the first four or five years of the francis pontiff cat with me taking their more consecutive of the holy father and some over changes they were pushing for are dramatic moment in catholic history with the potential to create schisms down the road and i think you can see this book as qualifier to that analysis to the extent the evidence of the two and a half years since i wrote my back is that decadence and catholicism itself is more powerful than i thought when i was writing the book. again, as a conservative who was doubtful of some of the reforms being considered in rome, i'm rooting for decadence in the sense i'm rooting for a return to the liberal conservative stalemate rather than a sweeping liberalize asia and sweeping transformation, but that's the story of the last couple years, pending events in germany

you this roman catholic priest is a bit of a maverick. father in hell is in charge of the church of sun and tone it parish in the heart of madrid is one of the most unusual in spain get there in the organ numbered positively where his faith shine through whenever he can the 81 year old starts his day with a walk around the church and how are you father until they get on a flight and you do you have sandwiches in the over the lot and over. every day volunteers provide breakfast and lunch for homeless people for impoverished pensioners and for others who can't afford to feed themselves. at an early years when you. get there and tonight something sweet i.e. very hungry. yes. most churches in spain open their doors only for services son anton never closes. there are 2. let's baby changing facilities and drinking water. but i still had to fight long and hard for his 24 hour church in 2015 the bishop gave him permission to revamp the inside of son and tone hard were replaced with comfortable chairs now anyone can rest prayed for sleep here. man

tradition in the name of public health where they could catholics watched religious services online most of them risky. we have to find a way to be close to the people and thanks to the willingness and inspiration of title we could do this to our social media. while churches remained empty mexico's health officials use the public holiday to finally begin wider testing for cold 19 the death toll is growing rapidly and just as in brazil mexico's president had under played the severity of the pandemic many are praying that not only will they end their loved ones survive this new virus but also its economic impact in a region that was already in trouble before the pan dimia in a report issued on easter sunday by the world bank the forecast for this year is grim in argentina brazil and mexico for sees a negative g.d.p. of 5 to 6 percent and even higher for some caribbean islands. all this is an estimate the peak of the pan dead. it is still weeks away which is why the news whale has extended its nationwide lockdown until april 30th in argentina and through until april 26th. by contrast h

of a strait of this is known coronavirus related to the high court there has overturned a senior catholiccardinals conviction for child sex abuse this is cardinal george pell who has just been freed from jail he was convicted in 2018 of abusing 2 choir boys in the 1990 s. pill was actually once the treasurer of the vatican he was the most senior catholic official to be convicted of child sex abuse like the gauge following this one from sydney for us what reasons have the court actually given make a. full one year since he was jailed for these sex offenses cardinal george pell is now a free man shortly after a struggle is highest court quashed his child sex abuse offenses he has left victoria's barwon prison now because of coronavirus social distancing measures there were too many people in court or told to hear this ruling the court did post it online afterwards in the raising it gave was that the jury and victoria's court of appeal should have entertained doubt that these child sex abuse is against to form a choir boys ever took place in the 1st place they say that that's because there w

hell was once a treasure at the vatican and became the most senior catholic official to be convicted of child sex abuse i think i just following the story from sydney forrest bring us up to date nicholas. well this has been one of the most high profile cases in astronomy is history and it's ended with a unanimous ruling by a strategy is highest of course the full bench of 7 justices they acquitted george pell of all of his convictions of those shops sexual abuse of 2 quiet boys in the late ninety's so after spending one year in prison george pell is now a free man shortly after the high court made this ruling he left victoria's barwon prison now because of coronavirus social distancing measures there were only a handful of people in the court to hear this ruling it was posted online afterwards and the judgement was really based around the fact that the high court believed that the jury and the victorian court of appeal should have entertained doubts as to whether these offenses could have ever happened at all really it was in the late ninety's that these offenses were alleged to have

catholic faith, because digital is so powerful but cannot simulate 100% life.ou describe the smell of lemons through the internet? no, of course. or something new and something that is helping to not remain alone in this time. one question i have that has been preoccu pying this time. one question i have that has been preoccupying me, i am not a christian, is a question that whether at easter the message of easter, the story of easter, the suffering and the resurrection and the redemption, whether that is a message which particularly resonates, given the coronavirus crisis, beyond the catholic community, beyond the christian community, beyond the christian community, even, to everybody in the world 7 community, even, to everybody in the world? yes. in the last years, we have such a huge advancement in biotechnology and we could have forgotten that we are really a fragile, living being. and today, when we face the fragility of the human being, when we face that our life is so precious, it's so unique, but also so fragile, everyone is bringing back to the human c

in the 19th century, anti- catholic preachers traveled around to sell out crowds, if a catholic becamestsellers like this best-selling book from the 1830s, maria monk disclosures, and expose, a fake expose, getting up big news, i suppose that told sexual abuse and catholic conference. in the 1880s, companies send messages such as one that used taking up chinese immigrant is a way to promote laundry detergent. a chinese must go, the ad reads. we have no use for them since we've got this wonderful washer. what a blessing to tired mothers. it cost so little don't injure the quotes. fineprint, also assures users that the detergent will not turn the clouds yellow. these ways of selling xenophobia through product books, it does not compare at all to the process product today in the detention center. department of homeland security manages the largest immigrant detention system in the world. it spends more on immigration enforcement than on all other federal enforcement agencies combined. more than $18 billion a year. too private companies, collections, corporation of america also known as cb

that's catholic charities brooklyn queens. you'll find all the information there. >> i love your shirt. the world tells us to seek success, power and money. god tells us to seek humility, service and love. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> let me turn to our doctor on duty, dr. steve corwin, president and ceo of new york presbyterian hospital. dr. corwin, weave been talking about this since the pandemic started, communities of color being disproportionately affected. how much does that concern you, that particular trend? >> it's of tremendous concern, and the stories that you've just told are really heartbreaking. we have new york press teen queens which sits in flushing, we saw a huge influx of patients from corona and heelmhurst. you're talking about communities of color disproportionately affected by this because of the combination of social determinants of health, crowded housing, the need to be -- even working sick because if they don't work sick, they don't get paid sick leave. so it's a tragedy. it's continuing to u

catholic church cancel the processions and all religious activities. but we pilgrims decided to carry on the tradition like we do dear after a year so that it's not lost i know. a few residents of the capital managua wear face masks otherwise public life here continues largely unchanged schools and shops are open the streets thronged with people. critics of the leftist president on yet ortega want to know what his plan is if the outbreak does hit but ortega is nowhere to be seen some speculate as absence is due to medical problems leaving the government unable to focus on the pandemic is unable because. it's so obese kristie that they're. here were give us money. here really are more to. ortega's wife says he sends nicaraguans his love but some feel left alone will mean that i'm ok. we have to look after each other because honestly the captain has left the ship as they say. saying it could be done about it but. we need a captain. that more could be done. while the number of confirmed cases in nicaragua remains low many here worry it won't stay that way

the armenians, the greeks, and the catholics.y for the catholic church, at 12 noon there is a procession down to the cave. the manger scene the birthplace of jesus. so you can see, day by day, every single day at the same time, catholics and the greeks are honoring this holy place. the birthplace of jesus christ. ♪ ♪ right now we are going into the main entrance of the manger. in the cave. ♪ ♪ this is the main entrance that dates back to the sixth century. on the right side there is an altar. this altar is the altar of birth, and below the altar we have the symbol of the star this is the.to mark the very spot where jesus was born. and this has a 14-point silver stars which marks the 14 generations in the bible. >> in the house in the line of david. because the he had also not been born at that time. so if you take all this away, you'd see a humble manger scene, mary and joseph and the animals. >> exactly so this is a stable in the cave. because the cave's uses stable. and then it was turned into a chapel. the greek ordered it, th

it's nearly 2 months since the catholic church and other churches here in south korea decided it was simply too risky to hold normal services instead they're holding masses online and it's only now all of these weeks on that the catholic church has decided it is safe to reopen its churches but only under the strictest of precautions we're at the main cathedral in seoul they cannot really have a congregation of up to $1000.00 but only a quarter of that number of being allowed in for 'd each mass and you know order to do so you have to turn up here early go to this building where you get a number and your contact details your identity is recorded of all this so that if there is a case of infection that every member of that congregation can be traced it's all part of this contact tracing that the south koreans are now so expert at then you have to line up a 2nd time outside the cathedral itself obviously keeping a distance from the people in front of you and behind you and as you go into the cathedral taking the usual precautions like hand sanitizer making sure you have a mask and then

still ahead on al-jazeera as catholics head back to church in south korea we ask if life fair could be snowy returning to normal past. that out but he coronavirus knocked down protesters in parts of europe demand an easing of frustrations. had a few showers into the northeast of the united states some blustery conditions as well but really the good news is those severe thunderstorms they are not in the fore calls for the next couple of days however out across the southwest we go play skies and some very high temperatures at least 10 degrees above the average into southern california clear blue skies very warm indeed in the societies how much is really on the high side 31 in los angeles on sunday 20 celsius in san francisco so feeling a lot better for you this is the area of rain on sunday worked his way through the high valley pushing up into the northeast as blustery winds and that rain keeping those temperatures a little bit lower and in fact just 10 celsius in new york on monday but then you come across to the west where we have got these heat warnings in place and the red really sh