with our incredible contacts, we went directly to nazareth. and actually, networking is an amazing thing, because the local episcopal priest in mccomb, of all places, mccomb, illinois, has an amazing international reputation- amnesty international, these kinds of organizations that work for justice- and he set us up with some key people in the arab christian community where we started out in nazareth, and in fact, our guide, as i said, was an arab christian, which is an interesting story in its own right, you know, how those people put up with some of the tensions. but we were able to meet real authentic people and place our questions to them. what we want to look at in terms of this class, and we have some extraordinary roll-in material of these interviews is we have several pieces. the first is simply going out into the community and exploring those ethical conflicts. what happens when you have three great religions that share many of the same similarities, but they live in a tightly bound community, where obviously, one group has more polit

xvi says there were no cattle or sitting angels when jesus was born, and in his new book "jesus of nazarethive" he also questions jesus' birth date. the book is being published many several languages just in time for christmas. co-editor of the belief blog joining us live from washington. good to see you, eric. this book debunks a lot of what we traditionally believe happened on the first christmas. the an malgz in real life manger scene, after all, says the pope. how does the pope draw these conclusions? >> what the pope is doing is he is going through the gospel narratives of how jesus was born and where and he is doing what's called a textural -- a textual criticism as he is looking at actual words implicitly and explicitly. this is going to make a lot of the kids upset who are set to be the objectixen and the sheep in christmas pageant. in the gospel of luke when you we are talking about the jesus story. she is referring to mary, gave birth to her first son, wrapped him in bands of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn." the manger was where the

in jesus of nazareth, the infancy narratives pope benedict argues a sixth century monk miscalculated the date of jesus' birth. we hope you are all having a very happy thanksgiving. i'm gary tuchman. next on cnn, a "gps roadmap to saving health care." >>> welcome to a gps special, "global lessons: the gps roadmap for saving healthcare." i'm fareed zakaria. america's system of bringing us into this world, helping us stay alive, and supporting us as we die is at a major across roads. president obama signed the most comprehensive overall of health care since medicare. no other nation spends more than 12% of its economy on health care, america spends 17%. what's more, we don't really benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th. it's more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour and in a "time" magazine essay, we're going to take you around the world to study health care systems in other countries to find out what lessons we can learn from others.

in his new book "jesus of nazareth: the infancy narratives" the pope challenges jesus' birth date.ke with the co-editor of cnn's belief blog about it. >> what the pope is doing is going through the gospel narratives of how jesus was born and where, he's doing a textual criticism where he's looking at the actual words, what's there implicitly and explicitly. i want to take a look at the cattle. this is going to make kids upset who are set to be the oxen and sheep in their christmas pageants this christmas. take a look at the passage from luke. in the gospel of luke, talking about the narrative of the jesus infancy story, it says, and she, she referring to mary, gave birth to her first son and wrapped him in bands of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. now, the manger was where the animals ate in a stable. so they're essentially putting jesus in a bowl that the animals ate out of. so there you have this implicit reference to animals but not an explicit reference to an mays. the pope is saying, we have all these histories of oxen and sheep b

it's called "jesus of nazareth, the infancy narratives."d book about the life of jesus. in it the pope debunks a lot of the traditional mythology behind jesus' birth and the nature avt, so those animals beside the manger, forget about them. same with hashing the herald angels sing. didn't happen, according to the pope. that's not all. the pope also corrects the year that jesus was born. joining me now is brent straun,, he teaches the bible and theology at emery university in atlanta. he is also an ordained minister. good morning. >> good morning. >> let's start with the timing of all of this. when was gees born then? >> yeah. so, unfortunately, jesus was born, which then cnn wasn't around to tell everybody to reset their clocks to year zero. that was done later, and the pope says that the monk who was largely responsible for that, who worked in the sixth century of our era, so 500 years after jesus was born, he got some facts wrong. so really jesus was probably born before year zero and the gospels say he was born during the reign of king -

resolution 606, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the founding of the sisters of charity of nazareth on december 1, 1812. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. levin: i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate and any related statements be printed in the record as if read. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. levin: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 607 which was submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 607, relative to the death of the honorable george mcgovern, former united states senator and congressman from the state of south dakota. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. levin: i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble agreed to, the motion to reconsider laid on the table with no intervening a