jozef wesolowski has stripped of his priesthood. proceedings will be kaucted by the vatican -- conducted by the vatican. if found guilty he could be extradited to the dominican republic. >> four people were released in donetsk, four monitors. a 3-day ceasefire was extended by petro porashenko. he intends to hold a second round of diplomacy with vladimir putin on saturday. we turn to paul brennan on the ground in donetsk. >> in the early hours of friday morning that the first four o.s.c.e. monitors were released to the colleagues. they have been detained in donetsk for more than a month. less than 48 hours later, in quick succession, we have a second batch of four o.s.c.e. monitors returned to their colleagues. with some relief the deputy monitors welcomed them back. >> we welcome the return of the last four of our team-mates, after a month away. we request friends and colleagues to allow them the peace, and quiet time with the families. many inside and outside the mission worked tirelessly to secure their release, and we take the op

there is no place in the priesthood for a man who abuses children. and he is intervening in a way that no former pope has done. he's removing them from the industry. it's very unusual to remove a bishop from the ministry. this man was ambassador to the dominican republic, and he was archbishop. he is now--the judgment has been passed that he has to be removed from the ministry. i was on the plane with the pope in may. he told us three bishops are under investigation. the judgment on one has been determined. we don't know if this is the one. on this question there will be no privileged class. no one will have a position where he will not be held accountable. >> critics say that this particular man should have faced a criminal trial not just a church proceeding, and that would have been possible had the vatican cooperated. is it at all possible that he could have faced a trial and what could happen to him now? >> i think you have to realize he was an ambassador. he had immunity. he no longer that is this. he was also a bishop in the catholic church. he

she has struggled with the fact that only men can obtain what the mormon church calls the priesthood. authority of god given to men within the church starting at the age of 12, just like the power jesus gave to apostles with the priesthood, they can perform acts of service in the name of god. she launched a group called ordained women and it quickly became the face of a new feminist uprising within the church. mormon women pushing the church to change policies. even i had questions but kelly has turned it into a worldwide movement. on monday the church decided to excommunicate her. the most extreme form of punishment cutting off all ties from the church and likely her family as well. let's be clear, i'm not arguing for mormon church to change its doctrine on priesthood, it's a practice still observed by many other religions including the catholic church. what i will say, i am disappointed. this is embarrassing and real missed opportunity. their message was either you're with us or against us. if you try to fight us, there will be consequences. where was the effort from an open dialogu

joseph smith gave us all the priesthood that is needed to lead this church and we're going to take these people to the west. he was a very interesting man. he was a great leader. one of the great liters in the 19th century in america. there are interesting things about him, for instance, he tended to lead by example. if you are going on a trek, he is at the forefront. if you have to dig out of a mud hole, he was the first one with the shovel. that generated respect and love among the people. he was just -- he was very, very capable. he was able to envision a future future, envision what they needed to do and figure out how to get it done. he was also an individual who had a deep spiritual core to him. there were a number of people in nauvoo when he spoke who said as he was speaking he started to look like joseph smith. they felt that was a sign that a mantle of leadership fell on his shoulders. in 1847, he was sustained that means he was proposed by the core of the 12 apostles voted to sustain him as president of the church. in 1847, bring yum young led a group of group to the valley. th

women are not allowed in the mormon priesthood. all mormon priests are men and actually in the mormon tradition all men are eligible, but not women. some people want to change that. but church leaders are emphatically not interested in that change. on monday, the lds church went so far as to ex-communicate this woman, kate kelly. a feminist, a mormon and a founder of the group ordain women. she's organized protesters in hundreds of women protests the church general priesthood meeting in salt lake city, utah. the meetings are only open to priests, that is, only open to men. in the protests, the women lined up in mass to attend the meetings and were turned away, one by one. all in the public eye. the church has since banned news photographers from such protests. church leaders say the priesthood is only open to men because jesus in their view had only men as his original disciples and the church warned kelly to stop rocking the boat, to take down the ordained women website and distance herself from the group and to get in line. on ju

i want mormon women to have equal access to opportunities and be ordained to the priesthood. it's important to keep in mind that all mormon me are ordained. if women are ortained, it couldn't be a handful of people, it would be seven million women and girls. >> speaking out on the web got you excommunicated. what is next for you? >> it's only been 24 hours. and so i am trying to take it one day at a time. i intend to appeal the decision within the church structure, and i intend to keep speaking out on gender inequality, and i intend to no longer remain silent. >> you are smiling tonight. but i suspect, and based on what i have read and seen, this has been incredibly emotional for you. can you describe that? >> it's hard to understand how devastating something like this can be. it feels to me like my citizenship has been revoked, like i have been evicted from my spiritual home, and it is a very difficult time, but i have been really buoyed up by the people that support me and stand with me. and i know that what i'm doing is right. i know that god sees men and women as equals.

joseph smith gave us all the priesthood that is needed to lead this church and we're going to take these people to the west. he was a very interesting man. he was a great leader. one of the great liters in the 19th century in america. there are interesting things about him, for instance, he tended to lead by example. if you are going on a trek, he is at the forefront. if you have to dig out of a mud hole, he was the first one with the shovel. that generated respect and love among the people. he was just -- he was very, very capable. he was able to envision a future, envision what they needed to do and figure out how to get it done. he was also an individual who had a deep spiritual core to him. there were a number of people in nauvoo when he spoke who said as he was speaking he started to look like joseph smith. they felt that was a sign that a mantle of leadership fell on his shoulders. in 1847, he was sustained, that means he was proposed by the core of the 12 apostles voted to sustain him as president of the church. in 1847, brigham young led a group of group to the valley. they were

a lifelong mormon who is actively rallied for women to receive the priesthood has been excommunicatedest punishment you can get. she got an e-mail from her former bishop that read, the difficulties sister kelly is not that you say you have questions or even that you believe that women should receive the priesthood. the problem is you have persisted in an aggressive effort to persuade other church members to your point of view and that your course of action has threatened to erode the faith others. kelly is the leader of ordained women, a mormon women group who advocates for gender equality in the faith with the ultimate goal of allowing women in the lay clergy. an lds, church of the latter day saint, spokeswoman says what she's promoting is contrary to the word of god. >> the church, we want all to feel welcome, safe and valued. and there is roof for questions. but how we ask is as important as what we ask. we should not dictate to god what is right for his church. >> kay kelly joins me from salt lake city. kate, you called your excommunication akin to a spiritual death. how serious i

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. >> merton was ordained to the priesthood in 1949. but his faith did not remain static. he was a seeker and his ideas evolved through the years. >> later in his life, he ends up kind of rejecting a lot of the dichotomies of "the seven storey mountain," which shows his maturity. i think what he didn't like is the fact that it was very black and white, you know, "world -- bad, monastery -- good." but in a sense, you can get drawn into "the seven storey mountain" by that kind of youthful enthusiasm and you kind of forgive it. >> merton was a mystic and had several epiphanies. >> one of the most famous is on the corner of 4th and walnut, which i just visited. there's a plaque there in louisville. and he says when he's looking around that he was suddenly one with everybody. and he says in that very famous line -- "how do you go around telling people they're shining like the sun?" >> the thing that we have to face is that life is this simple. we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and god is shining through it all the time. and this is not just a fable or a ni

he said under their priesthood they might be induced to act as one. the use of absolute and the absolute here is that all catholics think and act alike. then he goes on and calls what i call a blank to be filled in. as a reoccurring element, he says how many presses might they influence by their promised patronage and how many might reach tender? he doesn't tell us how many. that is for us to fill in. and there is no way to do that with not having our personal needs fill that in. and then he harkins national success saying it is the light of the republican prosperity that is sending earthquake under the foundation of their thrown, meaning the pope, i guess, and they have no hope of rest except the extinction of their light. he brings up something that is the only element of this hole topic that is particularly american. i believe this kind of panic is a human behavior. i don't think it is a conservative behavior, a liberal behavior, american behavior. it as a human behavior. and there is one piece that is american and has elements in other countries a

so if they have expelled him, that is the maximum penalty, expulsion from the priesthood and the church. >> reporter: for years the vatican has been accused of doing too little to prevent abuse by its own clergy. earlier this year the united nations called on the vatican to open up its files from the past. since being appointed pope francis has apologized over clerical child abuse, and has gone further than any of his predecessors. >> we're certainly making a an effort to demonstrate it. he said there would be zero tolerance for people guilty of sexual abuse of minors or sexual abuse in general. he made that absolutely clear. he talks about the problems of the priest, he is really taking a tough time on the status of clergy. >> now two months to appeal. he could face a separate criminal trial and extradition to the dominican republic. emma hayward, al jazeera. >> still to come on the news hour, no luis suarez for uruguay. and we'll see, won't we. >> stand by. it's sport. here's robin. >> very dramatic, stephen. thank you. good to have you along. the round 16 gets under way in brazil in

she says allowing mormon women to be other detained would open the priesthood to 7 million women worldwide. >> that pennsylvania pastor detracked for officiating his gay son's wedding has been invited to rejoin the church, restored credentials as a pastor. they say his punishment was too harsh. methodist law currently bans clergy performing same-sex marriages. he plans to push for greater same sex rights within his church. >> a law making it illegal to insult someone because of race and ethnicity in australia is under attack, saying it should be banned. one artist is fighting the move. >> a rising star of the australian art world twice that painted portraits and won top prizes. a photography exhibition is personal, a product of his own experience. >> this image is called you see monsters and it's an accusation of how people perceive muslims. it's a self portrait under the mask and it's helped seem see us. as a muslim person, we've been turned into monsters post 9/11. >> in australia, under siege is how muslims feel as sub human. on one side of the family, abdullah is seventh generation whi

i served as an active priest for 19 years at which time i was in effect mustered out of the priesthood because of my behavior. i am, in effect, a child molesters. >> according to police investigators, mckowen admitted to molesting 22 boys, both during and after his time as a priest. the statute of limitations had run out on all but one. it got him a 25-year sentence. >> i certainly had some anxious moments when i walked in because of the way child molesters are traditionally treated in prison, which is not very good, you know. but the truth is, i have not been mistreated at all, either by inmates or staff. >> mckowen is lucky, as sex offenders go. he's assigned to the prison's one minimum security wing where most of the inmates are more interested in going home rather than getting in trouble. it's not the only positive thing mckowen sees in his incarceration. >> i was a catholic priest for a long time. i was then and i am now, you know, a person of faith. i was certainly a person of faith when i was active as a priest who had a very dark secret, and i don't have that secret anymore. i

a former vatican ambassador to the dominican republic will be stripped of the priesthood.riminal proceedings will be conducted by the vat cavin. if found guilty, he can be extra decided for prosecution. >> in mu meeting with his holiness, he talked about the subject and reassured me that the vatican would not be at peace until they got the maximum penalty. the maximum penalty you can apply for theons he committed. if they had have expelled him, that is the maximum penalty. >> last month, pope fran sense pled zero tolerance. final two decisions of the year on monday. sebelius versus hobby lobby stories, the issue is whether the company can refuse to offer contraceptive services as part of the health insurance plan offered to employees. the owner of hobby lobby said doing so would violate his regi religious believes it challenges an illinois law. to pay union dues. otherwise, they are indelible. the ruling could affect millions of public sector workers across the country. we will take a deeper hook at the potential impact of both supreme court. the court ruled on earlier thi

if they had of expelled him, that is the maximum penalty, expulsion from the priesthood and the church. >>> for years the vatican has been accused of doing too little to protect abuse by its own clergy. earlier this year the yaugss called on the -- united nations called on the vatican to open up its files from the past. since being appointed pope francis apologised over clerical abuse, and gone further than predecessors. >> he makes an effort to demonstrators, saying there'll be zeer scro tolerances for people guilty of sexual abuse of minors or in general. he talks about the problems of police, and is taking a tough line on the status of clergy. he has two months to appeal, and could face a separate criminal trial and extradition to the dominic an republic. >> at home folks in the midwest are dealing with flooding. after severe rains flooded the mid west. people are continuing a clean-up and gearing up for more storms. on friday hundred of volunteers helped to fill 40,000 sandbags, to build bar yours and brace homes for future storms. rebecca stevenson joins us with a look at the fore

and their group of women asking for the priesthood. know how successful they would be but good for them for asking. but it's for me as a woman it felt oppresses so i left. i was curious why don't those women just leave? they don't. they stayed there in and fight for their rights. that is great. the of a trail amata big impact with the way i thought about the church but at the same time did not change my position. traveling the trail gave me an understanding of my mother's position but one thing i did know when i finish traveling the trail that is undeniably a mormon and that will not change. my values were formed by that it is so much of 2:00 a.m. all morgan is this place. i did not consider myself a mormon in a morbid everything i am is more men. my editor sat across from me and said something is missing. i said i don't know what's. she said your fog you have not mention him at all. i said he is not really a part of the book. she said i bet he is. [laughter] so i went back and explored my relationship with my father because it is very

ordained in our church because the entire leadership structure of the church reinvolves having the priesthood our church, the women are not given any leadership opportunities over congregations or in the leadership of the church based on their gender. >> somehow the excommunication? how has it affected you? >> it's hard to express the sorrow that i feel. it is as if i were being forcibly evicted from my spirit yule ho spiritual home. >> your dad said you have never been, quote, one to put up with baa l baloney. why didn't you search out another religion? >> that's a question i'm getting a lot. i have to remember it's not just for me. i'm doing it for so many young girls and my nieces and other people who participate in this religion because we love it and because they love it. but they grow up thinking that they are less than or they can't fully achieve things their male counter parts can. and so what i'm trying to do is invest in this institution and make it a better, more inclusive place for everyone. >> here is a thing, have you thought that if this is a church that subscribes to this kind

there is a group of mormon women now asking for the priesthood.how successful that will be good for them for asking. that was one of the questions all throughout the book that i wanted to underscore it. for me as a woman the mormon church felt oppressive so i left. so i was curious about why don't those women just leave and they don't. they stay there and they fight for their rights and i think that's right. the trail made a big impact in the way i thought about the church but at the same time didn't really change my position in the church. so traveling the trail gave me an understanding of my mother's position and other women in my family. but one thing i did know when i finished traveling the trail is that there are parts of me that are undeniably in mormon and that will never change. my values were formed by that. my opinions were formed by that. even my opinions that rebel against it. it's so much of through i am and so much the way i think about the west end so much the way i think about this place, all mormon. even though i don't embrace and

on the site, we state our position that mormon women should be ordained to the priesthood.son puts up a profile about their life, what being mormon means to them, and their feelings. one thing for people to understand is that all men are ordained and no women are ordained. if this changed -- the profit of the mormon church said it would be orr contained. it would effect 7 million plus women and girls worldwide. i'm being charactered with apostsee by the mormon church. i get the question a lot why do i stay within mormonism. why don't i leave? and for me, it's important to keep in mind that i'm not just doing this for myself. a young girl can't leave the church. i'm an adult, i could walk away. i could have a very fulfilling life, but this is bigger than me. this is bigger than the people involved. if i am excommunicated, i don't know what i'm going do. honestly. i'm trying to take it one day at the time. it's hard to imagine such a painful, violent, and hurtful experience as being cut off forcibly from the community that you've known and loved your entire life. >> kate kell

demonstration in salt lake city, asking to be admitted to a meeting reserved for members of the priesthoodwhich includes most male members of the church 12 and older. she says the threat of excommunication is devastating. >> they are trying to force me out of my faith. and it's excruciatingly painful. >> reporter: dullen believes the church is sending a terrible message to followers. >> you can't say we're a broad, diverse church. and be excommunicating people like it was the 1800s. >> reporter: in a statement to abc news, the church says, quote, when some members attempt to change clear church teachings to fit their personal preferences and encourage others to follow them, doctrine needs to be clarified so that others are not misled. experts say the church's actions show where they will draw the line. >> the church has its limits about how far they're willing to go towards liberalization. >> reporter: dehlin and kelly's hearings are next week. dehlin says if he is excommunicated, he will continue his work. and members can return, if they choose to repent. >> some story, mara. thank you. >