the kat electric pedophile priesthood -- catholic pedophile priesthood and apac had to take over the airwaves with this baloney story in order to create more panic and more situations that would require more police presence. and i know that many of us are intelligent enough to see through this. anyone can google ted gunderson, former head of the los angeles f.b.i., and go -- and google ted henderson-osama bin laden and see what he says. google jesse ventura. i invite all true hearts to attend and support the general strike which will also be supporting law enforcement. no matter what they're told in the orders. and i trust that the people that i'm addressing now will do the right thing and not be backing up the corporate store. we are in a place and time that the almighty lord has us and time to shut down the untoward because we've had enough. i'm going to read one poem about casey sheehan. if i may. casey sheehan, the almighty power love in our hearts be calling. for casey sheehan -- and 4,000 fallen. president mazzucco: thank you. >> you wouldn't grant this on behalf of cindy sheeh

i think the great thing that john paul ii has done for the priesthood is giving an example of joyfuloyful commitment. . >> that is a remarkable testament, a personal one from you and certainly we've seen that throughout this whole ceremony this morning that will continue. and father, very meaningful, pope john paul ii's coffin is up on the altar and later on this afternoon, people will ascend to the altar of st. peters basilica and kneel and pray before the pope as coffin. >> they will and it won't be just catholics, it will be protestants and non-christians and anyone who says that life is worth living when you do it right and i think that john paul ii said this is how you do it rightment you live the virtue, human virtue, christians virtues in a heroic way and so getting close to him. no, it's nothing magical will happen, but we have been blessed when we do those things and why there is he' going to be millions of people who are going to be passing by his coffin. >> i just want to say, father jonathan, that pope john paul ii did something special for me and that was when i was in r

yet the priesthood still reels from the sex abuse scandal critics accuse john paul for ignore.r robert gaul and the priests who call themselves the john paul generation, the pope was an inspiration. >> he was almost like he could see beyond this world when he was celebrating mass and one could perceive that. >> reporter: after mass, throngs of pilgrims filed by john paul's casket. a final show of gratitude to a man already a saint to so many. now, the pope still needs one more miracle before he can be canonized a saint. today the faithful are still filing past his coffin and the vatican says it will keep the basilica open until the last person has prayed. lester? >> anne, thank you. >>> there's much more as "nightly news" continues from tuscaloosa right after this. >>> is this the change you were talking about? >>> we're back now with some other news including a remarkable finding from french investigators who said today they have found one of two black boxes from an air france flight that went down in the atlantic ocean two years ago on a flight from brazil to paris. most of t

yet the priesthood still reels from the sex abuse scandal, critics accuse john paul of ignoring.ather robert gall and the priests who call himself the john paul generation -- >> one could perceive that. >> reporter: after mass, swarms of pilgrims filed by john paul's casket. a final show of gratitude to a man already a saint to so many. now, the pope needs one more miracle to be cannonized a saint. tonight the faithful continue to file past his coffin. the vatican says the basilica will remain open until the last person has prayed. lester? >> anne thompson in rome for us tonight, anne, thank you. >>> much more as "nightly news" continues from tuscaloosa, right after this. host: would foghorn leghorn make a really bad book narrator? foghorn (stammering): it was the best of times, it was the wor - i say worst of times. and by worst i'm talkin' as bad, i say, as bad as my aunt ginny's corn puddin'. that stuff'll sink you like a stone. engineer: ok that was a little... foghorn: you gettin' all this in there son? i just added that last part it's called "adlibbin..."anyway...it was, i

but the report concludes homosexuality and an all male priesthood were not part of the problem. priests were labeled paedophiles if they molested children if they were 10 years or younger. >>> if you believe the hype that started in the east bay this will be a big, big weekend. and most of us will still be around when it is all said and done. who is throwing the post rapture party and why they say predicting the end of the world sends the wrong message. >>> it is a simple question. you've probably never asked. luckily we know the people who know how to get the answer. how heavy is a house? that's coming up in tonight's good question. >>> she was in a car accident. someone calls an ambulance. >> i wasn't hurt. i wasn't transported. >> a bill for thousands. why refusing service may not protect you. coming up next. burst into flames in southern california today. this happened at point mugu >>> a military jet skidded off the runway during takeoff then burst into flames in southern california today. this all happened at the naval air station in ventura county. all three people on boa

by 1960, 1973 my priesthood was a mess. i did not really know where i was, and it cannot be a coincidence that where i went with the feeling of being a mass was to jerusalem not knowing what to expect. but i've found, of course, was a mess. and the first thing i learned was that god does not come to us in our purity, in our being fixed, and our being finished. god comes to us and our being amassed. it was that sense of jerusalem as the defining way in which the human perception of god takes place, not the only place, of course, but certainly for western civilization defining it was a place in which i actually came into a sense of myself, able to be at home and a mess of my life, embrace it, and because it was somehow there that i had an experience as a religious people have had going back to the centuries of the present one is of god. the notion of the ground of our being, that there is something essentially unquenchable in existence itself, and that became probable somehow for me. i had to say, in parenthesis, that my home

the report concluded neither the all-male celebrate priesthood nor homosexuality were to blame. instead the abuse occurred because some priests were poorly prepared and monitored and were under stress amid the social and sexual turmoil of the 60s and 70s. >>> passionate arguments over oakland's gang injunction spilled into the early morning hours this morning. the final vote ended up being a close one, but in the end the city council decided to keep those injunctions in place. claudine wong reports what happens next is still unclear. >> as much as i respect you, i will have opd remove you. be respectful! be respectful of us as we've been respectful four everybody that has speaked. you know what? all right. why don't we just close the item. >> reporter: and they did vote, and it was close. 4-3 in favor of continuing to fund the oakland gang injunction. >> to pretend we haven't extended resources on this is not being honest. >> you cannot ignore the reality in this district that i represent, the largest percent of the homicides last year were gang-related. >> gang injunctions use

way to identify potential abusers ahead of time and said homosexuality, celibacy, and an all-male priesthood had no bearing on the crisis. today's report got mixed reactions from catholics leaving church today. >> it's kind of like asking the fox coming out of the hen house how many chickens were in there before you went in, you know. it's a step in the right direction, but, obviously, we also need independent surveys, reviews, and in-depth coverage. >> reporter: now, today's report does not address the problem of bishops who covered up for priests and comes just days after the vatican issued new guidelines for dealing with priests who sexually abused children. but those guidelines are not mandatory, and there are no punishments for bishops who don't comply. katie. >> couric: elaine quijano, elaine, thanks so much. turning now to the middle east. for weeks, the white house had moved carefully on syria, saying little, even as the government there kept up its crackdown on protesters, but today, that changed. chip reid is our chief white house correspondent. chip, president obama is now taking

a report due to be released tomorrow, researchers say homosexuality, celibacy and an all-male priesthood were not causes of the struggle. the authors of the report says most of the molestations involved priests ordained before the 1960s that were not properly trained to deal with the cultural and sexual revolution of that decade. all priests were still required to be celibate men. as for why boys were abused more than girls, the author said priests simply had more access to boys. >>> tonight, there's a $200,000 reward leading to the arrest in the case of fan bryan stow. despite the detectives, the tips and the huge billboards, real leads are few and far between. >> we had a person saying they were definitely at the dodger game. they looked like the composite to the point where this was a mole on the face. we launched out there. ended up talking with that individual. confronted him. he was at a dodger game. but it was a little league dodger game. >> doctors in san francisco plan to update the public on stow's condition form morning. the giants fan is still in a coma and has been since his

so i left the priesthood, but i embraced my religious identity as a catholic in a new way, with a new fullness which is ironic. and it always was clear to me at some point i would return to jerusalem as a subject. i returned to jerusalem as a visitor, a pilgrim and as a student again and again, but now in this book i've returned to it as a subject. jerusalem, today s in the eye of the storm. we're all fully aware of that. the arab revolution sweeping africa and the middle east, source of tremendous hope and expectation, also concern, worry, understanding how badly things could go. religion and violence both very vividly, the tectonic plates of not just the middle east, but in a way of the western world shifting right below our feet. at the center of it, israel, palestine. also at the center of it, a new and contemporary form of nuclear dread. not the old standoff between the soviet union and the unite, but this new -- and the unite, but this new, less clearly defined more terrifying way than ever in many which nuclear weapons are on the edge of every power strug and, in a particular w

boiling point in 2002, a lot of liberals in the church said, well, the problem is this all male priesthood and enforced celibacy and that's creating the problem. a lot of conservatives said it's homosexuality and gay priests and that's the problem. and this report said it's not either one of those. but the report did say the social upheaval in the '60s and '70s, and there were critics who didn't like that sort of blame it all on woodstock idea. the report said that in seminaries, priests weren't being trained to handle the new sexual morays of the united states at that time and there was a lot of stress, and that generated the problem, but that makes a lot of critics frustrated because they say it makes it a sociological problem and not a systematic problem, and a spiritual problem within the church. >> and the fact is, kevin, the abuses happened, whatever the causes. >> that's right. whether it's gay priests or celibacy or anything else, the fact is that this happened within a very particular institution, the catholic church, that was incapable for 50 or 60 years of really handling this p

church for years now this study came to one very steadfast conclusion of the all male celibate priesthood and homosexuality are definitely not to blame for the sex scandals how shocking right now about the report came to look different conclusion it's said that the abuse occurred occurred because priests were not prepared and monitored during the stressful time of the one nine hundred sixty s. in the one nine hundred seventy s. yes i'm actually being serious about that the study says the greys were not ready for the social and sexual turmoil during that time period and the church is actually blaming the. woodstock era but the priests systematically abusing boys yes the free love peace politics drugs and rock n roll just turned a priest into abusive pedophiles now this is the first time we've heard the brilliant excuse the blade woodstock explanation has been floated by bishops when the priest abuse scandal first began exploding here in the us back in two thousand and two and over across the pond last year the church also tried to play woodstock for the church's problems but i'm honestly s

. >> what happened to the priesthood? >> what happened to the priesthood?ell, i went when i was in 9th grade, and somewhere between 14 and 15, the hormones kicked in. i liked girls, and i read the rulebook, and i figured this isn't for me because girls look really good, and there's just something about that. i thought this is a good idea, girls. i went in to tell the priest or the dean or whatever that i decided not to come back next year. before i get a chance to tell him that, he says to me, mr. moore, we've decided to ask you not to come back next year. i said what do you mean? i came in here to quit. you can't kick me out. i'm quitting. no, we are asking you not to -- well, good, we're in agreement. i said why do you want to kick me out? i'm a good student. he said, because you ask too many questions. i said, then, of course, i did, i was a little inquisitive and wanted to know why women couldn't be priests. why is that? it didn't make any sense to me. you know, or the whole thing about, you know, when life begins, human life, and the concept of a ferti

a conservative catholic, he once considered priesthood.nstead he worked the railroad until a bad accident put him out of a job and out of a paycheck. >> he started going on game shows. he went on "jeopardy!." >> reporter: hutton would go undefeated and later be invited back for the show's tournament of champions. the winnings, along with $145,000 settlement with new york central railroad, allowed the family to leave america for australia, in part so mel's brother could escape the vietnam draft. >> although his father was in world war ii and even got a purple heart, he was very much against the vietnam war. he said, my sons aren't going to go. >> reporter: 12-year-old mel would have to fight his own battle in school. >> he's a yank, with the american accent. and the kids, you know, tease him and they don't really accept him so easily. >> reporter: one of gibson's coping mechanisms was humor. >> he sort of clowns around a lot, you know. his father tells him, you know, the one thing you'll never do, they don't pay a clown. >> reporter: mel wo

after 25 years of priesthood in d.c. downtown.hey gave me a six acre cornfield and said build it. >> and build it you did. you have a good sense of humor. some people, this question is kind of assumes that you're no longer with us. are people surprised when they meet you and you are father hurley. >> yes, at 80 years old, i think i'm still quite with us. it depends on who you talk to. you have to admit there is a variation depending on who you talk to. that is the same thing we had in germantown when we first started. germantown was not open to the community. we're looking back at '74. blacks, catholic an jews need not apply. you couldn't buy anything in the area. that is how tight it was. then as soon as it started opening up, fortunately, i'm very much of an activist, have been for years, all my life, i guess and all 80 years of it and because of that, we started moving together as a community and we got the other two ministers who were there prior to my getting there, which were not catholic, and we started working together as

father hoedson, a former abuse victim himself who's in the process of resigning from the catholic priesthood of the group road to recovery. he's currently a priest. this report basically embraces what some are calling the blame woodstock explanation. the priests were unprepared to deal with the social and sexual upheaval of the '60s and '70s. and that is what contributed to them abusing children. do you buy that? >> it's absolutely absurd, anderson. the fact that the catholic church is now going to blame a sociological phenomenon on the internal cover-up, deception and absolute massive serial abuse of children is absurd. and i'm -- shame on john jay college for engaging in an attempt to help the catholic church continue this cover-up and deception. and i'm very surprised that a noted university would do such a thing. >> do you find it strange that they use this different -- you know, they use a prepubescent child as only 10 or below, and therefore they can say, well, you know, less than 5% of the priests who were involved were actually pedophiles because they weren't abusing people under the

he was born and raised in washington state and spent much of his priesthood in oregon. and next monthill mark his 28th year as a jesuit priest. father pat also served here in our capital city. he was chaplain of georgetown university for a total of 10 years. and he has a deep appreciation for public service. and before being called into the priesthood, father pat had a calling to politics, specifically the united states senate. father, something tells me you'll fit in just fine right here. i think it's important to give the house a sense of father pat's character. and this is from a letter he wrote expressing his willingness to serve as chaplain. it says as follows -- as a jesuit, i believe it a part of my calling to find god in all things. and to discover the spirit of god present in the people i encounter and whom i serve. i wish to say i am ready and willing should those to be served deem me wory of this ministry. though true of any ministry, the position would call me to a radical reance upon the grace of god which will also be god's gift. i think it's clear that th

study finds a sexual revolution is what's behind the church's sexual abuse crisis, not the celibate priesthoodhomosexuality. the study was commissioned by the u.s. roman catholic bishops. it finds abuse occurred because priests were poorly prepared and monitored during the sexual turmoil of the '60s and '70s. researchers go on to point out abuse cases started to decline after the '70s, even though church requirements did not change. they say boys were more abused than girls, not because of homosexuality but because priests had more access to boys. >>> a former sonoma county soccer coach faces nine months in prison after striking a deal with prosecutors. 38-year-old kyle hoffman pleaded no contest on monday after being charged with stealing $53,000 from the county's youth soccer league. court records show hoffman wrote checks to himself during a two-year period when he was the league's president and the treasurer. sentencing will be held in august, but he could get less time if he makes restitution payments. >>> a former san francisco engineer owes the city of san francisco a big paycheck for h

from the '60s and '70s is to blame for abuse of the children, not homosexuality or the all-male priesthoodthe nearly $2 million study. i'm joined now by the communications director for the archdiocese of miami. mary, thanks for coming on the show today to talk about this. some critics argue the blame woodstock explanation is an attempt to shift responsibility from church leaders. what's your take? >> well, i think we need to look at this in the big picture. you know, clearly the bishops of the united states responded very strongly back in 2002 when this whole thing erupted, and i think what we're seeing today with this report is a continuation of the bishop's commitment to their promise back in dallas in 2002 when they crafted and drafted the charter, which was we promise to keep our children safe and this will never happen in the church again. now, we can take a look at the report and say this and that. many of these points have been made over the years already, and i know, you know, the catholic church has taken its many, many hits about the homosexuality issue as well as the celibacy is

. >> reporter: researchers say homosexuality, celibacy and an all-male priesthood did not play a roletential abusers ahead of time. the report got mixed reaction from catholics leaving church. >> kind of like asking the fox as he comes out of the henhouse, how many chickens were in there before you went in. you know. so it's a step in the right direction, but obviously we also need independent surveys, reviews, and in-depth coverage. >> now the report does not address the problem of bishops who covered up for abusive priests. researchers do say that church leaders responded to the crisis, but focused on priests, and not the victims. erica? >> has the vatican weighed in at all? >> just this weekend a letter the vatican told bishops that within a year they have to come up with guidelines on how to deal with abusive priests. but what's interesting about this is that the vatican didn't spell out any punishment for bishops who don't comply. so in effect these were really just suggestions. not an actual mandatory order. >> do victims feel that there's any progress being made? >> you know, n

defensive and offensive mechanism and it is meant to disempower and paralyzed those outside of the priesthood and it's one of the most important things anybody who cares about our economic system and finance system not to mention the taxpayer's wallet we have to address its one of the things the markets is working on and there's other groups working on. the problem in this forum is is essential the short period of time to talk about a bunch of subjects and it's difficult to do that the your 100% right people need to talk and planning which. we need to introduce the english-language to the finance industry and deal with pictures in ways people can understand including smart sophisticated people who feel like delivering idiots when they start talking about the finance system and it's not that complex. it serves their interests and it serves everybody else. so it is a point we need to focus on tall times so thank you for bringing it up. >> can i just reinforce the point was made about the potential that when the political winds shift people might not be happy with a reconfiguration of the fed? i