, who elected pope francis does not necessarily work that way.ortant to so many people who are practising catholics and has huge political influence for those who are not, but also a church with many, you think of the south american and african church, quite different in terms of their outlook. it is interesting mention africa and other parts of the world because at one time the catholic church was very much a european church and something that pope francis has focused on is the fact it is in decline in europe, it is growing in other parts of the world and being from latin america himself, that is clearly something that has been his focus. in washington, it's been a case of donald duck as the flak flies in the impeachment inquiry. the us president was bombarded by fellow republicans too after he abruptly announced he was bringing home us troops from northern syria. you don't have to be a cynic to think the timing might be connected with president trump's troubles at home, which had been clogging the air waves. it's also a recep tayyip erdogan—ple

this is the fourth synod that pope francis will open since he was elected pontiff.ontroversial. as well as the expected focus on the social and environmental challenges in the amazon, such as deforestation and mining, the 264 participants will also discuss whether the church should set aside its own rules on priestly celibacy and ordain older, married men. that would boost the church's presence in rural regions, where a shortage of clerics means priests often visit some communities only a few times a year. another idea is how to acknowledge and perhaps promote the often central role that women play in maintaining catholicism. but there is serious opposition to the synod among some senior catholics who fear this will dilute or change long—held teachings. the us cardinal raymond burke, who's emerged as the de facto leader of those forces within the vatican opposed to pope francis, has called for fasting and prayer to combat what he termed theological errors and heresies. john mcmanus, bbc news. earlier i spoke to david willey who's been reporting on events in the vati

then this letter i wrote pope francis. i got to meet hope francis through an innocent man in oklahoma, i asked the pope's help, he came and interviewed for richard, i got to meet pope francis. i handed him a personal letter not just about the death penalty, it took 1600 years to change the death penalty. we are not precipitous in our actions in the catholic church. it takes a while. one of the things is we don't have a healthy church with all males meeting and sitting policy and making decisions. we need women. we need women, to be healthy we need women. we need men, but when you have an all-male church making these policies and decisions, we need to have women in there. i am saying to pope francis, pope francis can't turn a cruise boat around the catholic church. he is doing great stuff and is setting directions we need to follow. getting back to the gospel of jesus, every human being has dignity and think of it. women are baptized into the faith just like men, all made in the image of christ, but yet when it comes to maki

let me start with you, what do you think pope francis means by that?know what he means exactly because that's part of his methodology is creating a little bit of confusion and allowing other people to jump in and to give their point of view. what happens here in this, they call us in a synod, they call it aspecifica specific topic, they brought in from the amazon region and the two big topics were married priesthood and female deacon diaconate's. i'm glad he's actually engaging these issues. looking at a small laboratory, coming up with a solution perhaps for that area, but making it a universal solution, i would just prefer that he would do it in a way that's representative of the global church. >> martha: raymond, may be the pope feels -- i have no idea what he thinks, actually, it sort of a nudge that it feels like an institution that the vatican will not go this way and he sort of nudging them this way. >> it's a troubling document, this amazon document. most of it reads like the paris climate change accord. when kanye west's album mentions more th

what i don't like is the methodology that pope francis is taking.in the amazon region, in south america, they have a great need for priests, so let's get some representatives from there, make a decision based on that, -- we know that's going to open it up for the rest of the world. what i would suggest is, pope francis, you are the leader of the universal church! be clearer! if this is a real issue, bring representatives from the whole world, get their opinion, be a leader and speak out to us about why you are making that decision. why do i think this is a problem? because so many evangelical pastors have told me, you know, jonathan -- back then, father jonathan. thank god for the catholic church, it's the strongest unified voice for issues like respect for life, abortion. or how about even the divinity of jesus? how about the salvific mission of jesus? we need the catholic church as a trouble work for faith, dogma, doctrine, belief! >> martha: once the doors open, it puts all the dog like that in jeopardy? >> pope francis has said let's create conf

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any final decision would be made by the pope and it's unlikely even a reformer like francis would enactre even being discussed is another sign of how this pope is opening up the church to different ideas. john mcmanus, bbc news. now, just 3.5 million years ago, a massive energy flare ripped through our galaxy. its impact was felt 200,000 light years away. this new discovery that the milky way's centre was more dynamic than previously thought can lead to a complete reinterpretation of its evolution. the team behind the discovery, led by professor joss bland—hawthorn from australia, used the data gathered by the hubble space telescope to calculate when the massive explosion of high—energy radiation took place. professor hawthorn told me why the discovery is so significant. when gas clouds and stars fall into the centre of the galaxy, they go into a death spiral around the central black hole — we have an enormous black hole at the centre of our galaxy, formally times the mass of our sun. the black hole itself is invisible, but the spiral of gas going around the central black hole gets very

any final decision would be made by the pope and it's unlikely even a reformer like francis would enactn being discussed is another sign of how this pope is opening up the church to different ideas. john mcmanus, bbc news. archaeologists in israel have unearthed the remains of a 5,000—year—old city — said to be among the biggest of its era. en esur dates from the early bronze age and was believed to be home to around 6,000 people. the site is close to the modern israeli city of harish. the bbc‘s tim allman reports. it has been described by some as the new york of its time. an ancient city buried for millennia, rediscovered when engineers wanted to carry out roadworks. no—one knew it was here. no—one knew how big it would turn out to be. translation: en esur is the largest site and the most important from that area. it's double the size of what we had previously seen. —— era. the city covers an area of around and is from the time of around 400 bc in what was once the biblical land of canaan. all sorts of things have been unearthed, tools, figurines, pottery. experts believe it could tran

any final decision would be made by the pope and it‘s unlikely even a reformer like francis would enact how this pope is opening up the church to different ideas. john mcmanus, bbc news. on the 18th anniversary of the start of the war in afghanistan, an international organisation says every child there has only known life in a country in conflict. save the children says afghan children are living in daily fear of explosions, and 84% of the victims of explosive remnants are under 18. it also says 3.7 million are not attending school because it‘s too unsafe — 60% of them are girls. now, just 2.5 million years ago, a massive energy flare ripped through our galaxy — it‘s impact was felt 200,000 light years away. this new discovery that the milky way‘s centre was more dynamic than previously thought, can lead to a complete reinterpretation of its evolution. the team behind the discovery, led by professorjoss bland—hawthorn from australia, used the data gathered by the hubble space telescope to calculate when the massive explosion of high—energy radiation took place. professor hawthorn told m

in his sermon pope francis blames destructive interests. the fire of god is warmth that attracts and gathers into unity it's fed by sharing not by prophets fire that destroys on the other hand blazes up when people want to promote only their own ideas. but there's a shortage of priests in the amazon cutting off many remote communities from the church to remedy this the 3 week meeting of bishops will consider allowing married men in the amazon to become priests in a working document it suggested this should quote be studied for older people prefer to be indigenous respected and accepted by their community even if they have an existing and stable family. if everything continues as it was if we spend our days content that this is the way things have always been done then the gift vanishes smothered by the ashes of fear and concern for defending the status quo. would be controversial go catholic priests are required to be celibate so they can be fully devoted to the church and traditionalists fear the move could pave the way for getting rid of

but the pope francis has recognized that our congregations need the help of married priests why should any chased priests be allowed this is a major issue in the church right now and i see it as a blessing. in the amazon it's clear what father deal barito is talking about the congregations are far apart travelling by boat takes a long time and his church struggles to find young people willing to be celibate. in the village of self russets go and father at oberto celebrates mass with $200.00 catholic youths. only edilberto can consecrate bread and accordance with church rooms. the region's catholic youth meet and sell francisco and they seem fun interested in taking about chastity edilberto discusses the pope's amazon synod and possible plans to ease the celibacy requirement. for voice support finally getting rid of celibacy if a priest wants to be chaste fine but it should be voluntary not obligatory. knew it must be don't give it that this idea was discussed at the amazon senate at the vatican and even encouraged by pope francis the catholic church is looking for ways to cope with a l

chill is that president makes a dramatic move in the wake of huge antigovernment protests and pope francis considers overturning centuries old rules to help solve a shortage of catholic priests in the amazon. we've got some bases spells of warm sunshine continuing across southern parts of your city better than much of last week for those western areas of the mediterranean further north we do have something to change under way this weather system here this cold front warm front making its way across northern most past will sink further south was to the north of that we have much cooler in store high pressure further south so fine dry and sunny we see temperatures getting up to around 2425 celsius across the passes notice still want to see showers into central parts of the mediterranean but the main weather features you go through the next couple of days will be this band of cloud and rain which will sink its way further southwards the end of british summer time seas temperatures struggling to get into double figures there in london 11 degrees celsius on sunday and there are 10 degrees celsi

pope francis has appointed 13 new cardinals, the highest position in the roman catholic hierachy, asideof them are under the age of 80 which means they may be eligible to vote in the conclave that will elect the next pope. the appoinments come ahead of a three—week meeting at the vatican, where bishops will discuss environmental and religious issues in the amazon. one of the more contentious issues on the agenda is the idea of ordaining some married men as priests to help alleviate a shortage of catholic clergy in the nine countries of the amazon region. jd flynn is the editor in chief of the catholic news agency. he's in denver, colorado. thank you so much forjoining us. i am sure most people know that catholic priests are celibate, so this would be quite a radical change, wouldn't it? it would be a radical change. the idea of courses that there are communities in the amazon that might not see a priest for more than a year and so they would not have access to the catholic sacraments. this is what has this idea to ordain married men in the amazon. bishops i have spoken to say they do no

and pope francis is to consider returning sentries all groups to help solve the shortage of catholic priests in the on the table. and. across northern sections of the middle east over the last few days and there are a few more in the fall cause quite a bit of cloud give you an idea where you might see those showers and sure enough it could be a wet day sunday into tehran even the chance of a scottish into baghdad city as well and look at the temperature $28.00 degrees celsius and if at the same on monday so low than it has been cooler as well in tehran and those cloudy skies on monday want to show the east end of the med still warm though in beirut with a high of 25 now to the south we have got that warm moist as still very much in play and we're watching this just on the edge this is a tropical cyclone it is heading towards the coast of oman heading across the arabian sea it's moving fairly slowly at the moment but sunday monday and by cheese day the outer bands of the strong storm by them could have winds sustained of 120 kilometers an hour by then we could begin to have some rough

heather: let's talk about pope francis who apparently is a football fan. sort of.er] carley: the saints received a surprised endorsement of the pope when he accidentally tagged them in a tweet, this is the tweet, it says today we give thanks to the lord for our new #saints, they walked by faith and now we invoke their intersession, well, that tweet was actually about 5 new saints who were just canonized but when the saints beat the jags, the saints responded couldn't lose after this and a bunch of other twitter users, saints fans took officiating complaints all the way to the vatican. that is hilarious. hail mary doesn't work at football, i don't know why advice from the pope would. >> #blessed, maybe he become a football fan now. >> 5 new saints canonized now. heather: hundreds of isis sporters escaping prison during turkish invasion of syria, what does this mean with fight against terror, he says our military will need to solve the problem again. he joins us up next, plus one high school football player tackles teammate for going the wrong way, the team's saving

there was mass this morning, what did pope francis have to say?s morning and in the front pew in this vast basilica where representatives of the amazon peoples with their headdresses. it was a beautiful... he gave a very bold homily in which he told the people gathering from across the world for this three—week meeting of bishops, he told them not to be afraid to be open to the new things of the spirit. he said it was very important not to give in to fear and the idea we can carry on as we are, there are huge challenges to face and we need to face them boldly. it was a plea for the bishops to be open to a real discussion over these next three weeks. the senate is titled new pats for the church. on one of those new pats is ordaining married men as priests, how likely is that to get the vote? this isn't a synod that is for the purpose of discussing that. it is much more than that. essentially it is how the church can come to be present in the amazon. when you have a vast territory with at least 3 million people belonging to indigenous communities. y

any final decision would be made by the pope and it's unlikely even a reformer like francis would enactbeing discussed is another sign of how this pope is opening up the church to different ideas. john mcmanus, bbc news. jong—so lim is 75 years old and she recently won second prize at the wbc fitness open world championship in south korea. the bodybuilder says age is merely a number and she wants more older women to be more health—conscious. rico, when we did a report on not be a couple of days ago you dress up as a couple of days ago you dress up as by a couple of days ago you dress up as a rugby player. an essay on behalf of everyone, thank you for not dressing up as a bodybuilder today! i'm lewis vaughanjones in london. and i'm rico hizon in singapore. stay with us. hello. it's been another very wet to 24 hours for some. western scotland, overnight into sunday, had nearly 60 millimetres of rain in places. in east anglia, we had 40—50 millimetres of rain through the course of sunday, which has resulted in flooding. and, in fact, there are a number of flood warnings in force across the

any final decision would be made by the pope and it's unlikely even a reformer like francis would enactts are even being discussed is another sign of how this pope is opening up the church to different ideas. john mcmanus, bbc news. jong—so lim is 75 years old and she recently won second prize at the wbc fitness open world championship in south korea. the bodybuilder says age is merely a number and she wants more older women to be more health—conscious. very impressive stuff. rico, i will say show us your muscles, but i wouldn't want you to rip that suit. laughter. jong—so lim has muscles. i have musk elets. you have the p020. -- pose. you have been watching newsday. i'm lewis vaughanjones in london. and i'm rico hizon in singapore. stay with us. hello. it has been another way to 24 hours for some. western scotland, overnight, into sunday, had nearly 60 millimetres of rain. in places in east anglia, we had 40—50 millimetres of rain through the course of sunday, which has resulted in flooding. and in fact, there are a number of flood warnings in place across the rivers of scotland and en

and now he's considering maybe the biggest change yet. >> pope francis signaling a possible depasturerom a centuries-old tradition in the catholic church-- the requirement of celibacy for priest is open for debate. during mass yesterday, the pope didn't refer to the celibacy issue but warned if we spend our days content that this is the way things have always been done, then the gift vanishes, smothered by the ashes of fear and concern for defending the status quo. >> trevor: oh! the pope is considering getting rid of the celibacy rule for catholic priests. and i'm going to be honest-- i'm happy about this. but it is going to be awe little bit weird when you start seeing your priest on tinder. yeah. ( laughter ) he's going to be there like name of the father, the son. swipe left, swipe right. oh, priests having social lives is going to affect their sermons, right? they're going to be preaching, we know from genesis that it was just adam and eve, but if there was, say, a zoe in the mix, eve would understand. i also like it. i really like it because i think it's cool that the pope is lo

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and coming up — the new cardinals appointed by pope francis and the military action in syria are twocs of dicussion on dateline london. that's in half an hour here on bbc news. good morning. the family of harry dunn, the nineteen—year—old killed in a crash involving an american woman, are flying to the united states, to raise their concerns about the case with politicians there. anne sacoolas, the wife of a us intelligence officer, left the uk after the collision in august. she's now said she wants to meet the teenager's parents. earlier, i spoke to mark stephens, the lawyer representing harry dunn's family, who explained what they are hoping to achieve by going to washington. one of the things they are hoping to achieve is that, by fleeing britishjustice, anne sacoolas effectively denied them the opportunity to understand what happened in the last seconds of harry's life and, as a consequence, they've been seeking for some weeks now an explanation from her, an opportunity to talk to her so that they can get psychological closure on that part and move to the grieving part. at the mom

senate at the vatican and even encouraged by pope francis the catholic church is looking for ways to cope with a lack of priests and stop members from leaving. most members of milton's congregation support the end of celibacy in the priesthood so mass can take place every sunday and not just once every 3 months nelson would even consider leaving the church services himself but he wants to remain married there. it has to be possible. we see how protestant ministers have wives and children. we want to say to a marriage that for me i'd be. the reform of the catholic church might just have its origins in the amazon. so here's a story about friendship to lifelong friends have been playing golf together for 15 years and have built up a huge amount of trust along the way the partnership between graeme kryten and longtime caddie sue carpenter is quite unique coton was born blind and carpenter has become his eyes on the fairways kerry sue carpenter sets up the ball for her blind frame graeme the golfer. right hurt they've been close for decades on the course he'd be lost without his caddie if

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pope francis has been hosting bishops non's and community leaders from the amazon to discuss challenges such as the destruction of the rainforest. but the most hotly debated question was whether to allow some married men to join the priesthood in remote locations where there aren't enough clergy to perform regular mess. the majority of the bishops also called for the vatican to look into whether women should be ordained as deacons a role currently reserved for name in who are allowed to preach baptize witness marriages and perform funerals the pope admitted the church had yet to grasp the significance of women as well i mean this 130 we need to underline this we do not realize the role of women in the church we just look at the functional part which is important but the role of women in the church goes far beyond functionality. the group is a urging the church to recognize the unique spirituality cultures and needs of the amazonian faithful but it could have repercussions beyond this isolated territory some conservatives have warned that allowing such exceptions could lead to the global

at the vatican and even encouraged by pope francis the catholic church is looking for ways to cope with the lack of priests and stop members from leaving. most members of milton's congregation support the end of celibacy in the priesthood so mass can take place every sunday and not just once every 3 months nelson would even consider leaving the church services himself but he wants to remain married there to proceed beds it has to be possible. we see how protestant ministers have wives and children from me and we want this new marriage therefore maybe. the reform of the catholic church might just have its origins in the amazon. while visitors have been gathering at luring the iconic sandstone rock out in the australian desert held sacred by indigenous peoples many were hoping to scale the rock ahead of a permanent ban on climate there which is now going into effect indigenous australians call tourist at a lower and. there are many australians here right now they feel it's their right to climb the national landmark the holy rock of the local aboriginal people teacher and hansen and her co

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pope francis says he will look again at that issue. activities. look again at that issuelj would like to underline something. we have not yet realised what the women in the church means. we talk about them only for the functional part, which is important, but the role of women in the church was far beyond functionality. far beyond. final decision on priestly celibacy will be the pontiff‘s alone to make though rows have been bent before to fit local circumstances. when protesta nt vica rs fit local circumstances. when protestant vica rs in fit local circumstances. when protestant vicars in britain angry at the ordination of women as bishops left the church of england, pope benedict ordained many of them as catholic priests even though they we re as catholic priests even though they were already married. let's return to our top story now: those fires in california. david hagele is the mayor of healdsburg. his city is under mandatory evacuation. how is it looking there are now? very calm. our citizens were very responsive and this morning we gave the

pope francis has called it a sign of solidarity the hospital ship papa francisco will serve people in remote villages in northern brazil along the amazon the world's longest river. and it will provide medical care to villages in an area the size of germany.

pope francis has called it a sign of solidarity the hospital ship papa francisco will serve people in remote villages in northern brazil along the amazon.

debate about married priests has divided the catholic church for generations why do you think pope francis is considering that this is perhaps a good time to broach the subject once again. well he's considering this because there's a lot of pressure coming from the current church globally and also because in these last. since the 1950 s. niigata shares there has been a series of exceptions and special provisions for married priests in the going to church those coming especially from of the presence of judges. at the anglican churches they have accepted the image as mary varies so there is a really a history of exceptions and right now the situation we as a region poses of moberly is opening the question eve it's more important to preserve the celibacy requirement and the cost. of head the many communities we doubt it priests for many many months every year in terms of the debate but he was so central then in terms of the debate is that pushback from within the church well that the general impression is that the pope is willing to talk willing to listen and certain elements of the catholic

pope francis has been hosting bishops non's and community leaders from the amazon to discuss challengessuch as the destruction of the rainforest. but the most hotly debated question was whether to allow some married men to join the priesthood in remote locations where there aren't enough clergy to perform regular mass. the majority of the bishops also called for the vatican to look into whether women should be ordained as deacons a role currently reserved for lame in who are allowed to preach bêtise witness marriages and perform funerals the pope admitted the church had yet to grasp the significance of women as women this 130 we need to underline this we do not realize the role of women in the church we just look at the functional part which is important but the role of women in the church goes far beyond functionality. the group is a urging the church to recognise the unique spirituality cultures and needs of the amazonian faithful but it could have repercussions beyond this isolated territory some conservatives have warned that allowing such exceptions could lead to the global catholi