and i think part of it is you have to deal down when you see the eucharist, you have to be focused on christ and it's the body and blood of christ and that is the ancient and current teaching of the church. >> again we can read more about these things. hell and purgatory. the church has always had a hell exist. they said -- they never said anyone is in hell that the reason they don't say that is in the new testament jesus says who are you to say who is good or bad. that's god's decision alone but the reason it's so important is how means i truly have free choice and i can choose not to love god. and that's the whole point of the story. free will and purgatory. purgatory means if you're going to be in heaven you can't have all these faults. you have to be a nice guy. you can say -- purgatory is purifying us to become part of the saints in heaven. >> the priesthood. >> the priesthood. people get confused. there are two types of trees. we refer to that as the ministerial priests hood. those priests serving others but there is aussie the priesthood of the lady and effective baptism right

the word of god made flesh in the eucharist. that set me on fire. so i became catholic april 19, 2003. then two years later in 2005, i go on the street corners of st. louis and pass out bibles and inviting people to our church to come and worship as an evangelization effort. i felt the call to start preaching or start talking. the religious education teacher said let the spirit lead you. i started with a hail mary, an our father. then i began speaking about what god meant to me in my life to others. i was ministering to dope dealers, pimps, prostitutes, gang bangers. it was wonderful. the lord has brought me from the streets of st. louis to be able to preach the gospel around the united states and south america. >> wonderful. if people would go to a mission, what's the kind of thing they would experience? they come in and go i have heard about this guy. >> one of the first things they'll experience is a little bit of joy and a little bit of excitement. >> refreshment. >> yes. i try to welcome people. i always go and shake people's hands and make peo

. >> reporter: they will sit at four tables presenting on the environment, holy eucharist, values the archdiocese teaches all of the 70,000 students citywide. >> they are doorways out of poverty for so many immigrants then i will give him that statistic. 64% of the children below the poverty line and 98% heading to college. >> reporter: after meeting with students, another event in the charities. some of the work they do won't involve the students but from here it will be off to the main event downtown, the mass in madison, square garden. marcus solis, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> marcus, thank you. eyewitness news will be with the pope during his visit to the u.s. we have a special section on our web site where you can find the pope's full head to abc7ny/pope. follow us on facebook and twitter. >>> new details about a westchester county father facing prison time for allowing his unlicensed teenage daughter to drive. michael ware will be sentenced today in pennsylvania. last month he pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment. his decision to let julia drive le

the students will present projects based on the environment, community service and the holy eucharisttty excited. >> nervous? >> yes. nervous. >> like no way. no way. >> the archdiocese of new york says 64% of the students live below the poverty line. 98% go on to college. >> the pope? no way. >>> you know the saying if you can't beat them, join them? the san francisco cop who targeted cyclists doing that. cheryl jennings joins us with a look at what is ahead at 5:00. >> thank you so much. coming up next hard work does pay off. >> it's really challenging to be able to prove yourself. >> a bay area teenager is inspired by the best. he is about to make history. >>> also making history, the first of its kind in almost a history. those storie [female announcer] dsave up to $400 on beautyrest and posturepedic.n, get interest-free financing until 2018 on tempur-pedic. plus, helpful advice from the sleep experts. don't miss mattress price wars at sleep train. >>> we have the astronaut wives club followed by mistresses and then rookie blue. stay with us for abc 7 news at 11:00. >>> a crack do

they'll present projects based on the environment, community service and the holy eucharist.overing the pope in washington. >>> well, a south bay teenager is making an international move as a ballet dancer. you know he's been dancing since he was a boy and as chris nguyen explains he's now taking a big leap onto the world stage. >> reporter: from an early age, daniel reuben knew what he wanted to do. >> ballet is probably one of the only arts where it's readable in all languages. >> reporter: a young man who dreams of becoming the next ballet superstar, he spent the past three years in russia where he attended the ballet academy. >> first i loved it and then i hated it and i loved it again. after a few months, i got used to the language. i learned what the slang was. >> reporter: the son of two russian immigrants, he made his debut at ballet san jose. his passion for performing has taken him all over the world for intensive training, but while he was busy learning theory, history and dance technique, he also completed his american high school studies online. >> we would have

they'll present projects based on the environment, community service and the holy eucharist.g the pope in washington. >>> well, a south bay teenager is making an international move as a ballet dancer. you know he's been dancing since he was a boy and as chris nguyen explains he's now taking a big leap onto the world stage. >> reporter: from an early age, daniel reuben knew what he wanted to do. >> ballet is probably one of the only arts where it's readable in all languages. >> reporter: a young man who dreams of becoming the next ballet superstar, he spent the past three years in russia where he attended the ballet academy. >> first i loved it and then i hated it and i loved it again. after a few months, i got used to the language. i learned what the slang was. >> reporter: the son of two russian immigrants, he made his debut at ballet san jose. his passion for performing has taken him all over the world for intensive training, but while he was busy learning theory, history and dance technique, he also completed his american high school studies online. >> we would have one da

i want to start with mike because eucharist question. -- because she directed the question.e: the problem with workforce programs, i have been involved with this in other places -- there is a mismatch between the training and what employers really want. so what doesn't work. we started going to big companies like chevron, turner, saying, what exactly do you want? delgagdo,e elgato -- creating the exact skill sets at those jobs. we are replacing students in real jobs with associates degrees that are going out and making $35 -- $35 an hour plus benefits. the middle class is working, but now we need to scale it. but the problem you point out is no doubt a problem in the past. udy: i would have answered your earlier question about what we hope in the future. my hope is that that 52% of unemployed african-american males is a number that, in the next 10 years, we will look back on and say this is a rallying cry and a turning point. i came back from an amazing meeting with the mayor and ceos of some of the large anchor institutions in town. there is a command is amount of effort go

: sit at four tables presenting assignments based on the environment, community service and holy eucharist. values the archdiocese teaches all of its 70,000 students city wide. >> there are doorways out of poverty for so many immigrants and then i'm going to give them that statistic. 64% of the children below the poverty line and 98% of them heading on to college. >> reporter: after meeting with students, pope francis will be briefed on the work being done by catholic charities. and then from here, it's downtown so the main event. the mass at madison square garden. in east harlem, marcus solis, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> by the way, our website has an entire section dedicated to the pope's visit including his schedule while he'll be touring the u.s.. and also mass transit changes that you're going to want to know about. you can find it all at abcny7.com/pope. >>> a pricey case of taxicab confusion coming up on eyewitness news, an artist's accidentally leaving tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry in a cab's trunk. you know they were just sick. now she's enlisting help from hacke

he said he had never ask god for forgiveness, dismissing, or sort of being glib about the eucharist andaking communion. i think it rub people the wrong way. rubbed people the wrong way. all of a sudden this idea that donald trump was this white night coming in to save the republican can't -- party from suddenlylishment, people were saying, maybe we didn't think deeply about who donald trump really is. i think some of the things brought up at the debate about women i think are probably going to turn a lot of conservative christian voters in iowa off. host: but we have not seen evidence of that yet in terms of polling. guest: the drop i think is important in the suffolk poll. is down nine points from where the average was. that is significant. can be, in many ways, flagging indicators of where people are. the fact that he is still in the lead but you are seeing other republican candidates moving up in the polls, fiorina and rubio particularly in the iowa poll -- these debates are happening and people are able to see them all on the same level and edge them, you are going to see a shift. p