[laughter] i am kidding, but i see mike valentino smiling. you know we were taught that faith and reason need not collide and i guess if any single, if any -- i guess if there were two writers who really sort of influence my idea of faith, one would be shared and who was a true evolutionary philosopher and the other was dante because i read the divine comedy enough times now with enough interpretations to realize that he was writing about the corruption of the church. he stepped up open the inferno. so, i am not a poet, but i do have a tradition that i can say i am following. it may be a little grand. but, the other reason i guess is more deeply personal. but i have spoken about it before. i have a little girl, my younger daughter, who had down syndrome. mary was to depart of the lives of everyone in our family and friends. she adored going to mass at montebello rosa church. in fact, one time we were at mass and the former district attorney of new orleans, whose name i shall pass over, came in and he is now retired. i had hammered him pretty

now, those of you who remember the cases here in new orleans, and i see mike valentino with us today, will recall in at least three of the churches people occupied those churches because they did not want their sacred spaces reduced to real estate. this is happening in many parts of the country, and it is a sort of shadow story to the larger media narrative about the failure of bishops in the abuse crisis, so while he is going back and forth to rome filing these protests in a legal system that requires that everything be done in latin, i -- [laughter] happened to get information about something else that was going on in that time. here's how it begins. june of 2003, a year before the parrishs are closed, the incoming archbishop of boston, shawn o'malley, arrives in boston after cardinal law resigned and realizes there's an enormous crisis on his hands. heses to resolve 552 cases by abused victims that are in the court and he realizes that cardinal law has a financial sink hole. he goes to rome and meets with -- there are two seats right over here if you guys are interested. [laughter]