in 2013, benedict became the first pope in six centuries to resign. the united states is the latest country to consider entry restrictions for travellers from china due to soaring covid infection rates after beijing relaxed containment measures this month. here in the uk, the family of cody fisher, who was stabbed to death at a club in birmingham on monday, say their hearts are broken. and building model plane kits for a new generation of fans we report on the revival of a classic hobby. hello, and welcome. we start this hour with a special report from ukraine from the southern port of kherson, which is under increased bombardment from russian forces, and where on tuesday, the maternity ward of a hospital was among the places shelled. kherson is often called the gateway to crimea and, because of its strategic importance, it was one of the first places taken by russian forces at the start of the war. it was liberated last month in a significant gain for ukrainian troops. b
A. Good crowd down here today, and joining us on our set is George Weigel who is the author of in this book hes the author of several books, but this is his most recent, evangelical catholicism. Mr. Weigel, what is evangelical catholicism . Guest its a catholicism thats being born in the 21st century out of the 125year reform history reform period in the history of the church. It was given, i think, a definitive form by Pope John Paul ii and Pope Benedict vxi. In pope francis youre seeing an expression of this new missionary thrust in the church, a church that no longer can count on the culture to make its proposal for it. It has to make its proposal on its own. Host what does that mean . Guest it means that the culture in which i grew up 55 years ago in baltimore helped transmit the thing. That is not the case anymore. You cant walk through any mall in suburban and not have washington and not have christian convictions assaulted. So the church has had to rediscover what its essence al
On booktv on cspan 2. Good afternoon. I am so glad to see all of you here on this Beautiful Day to join a National Book festival. Mine is in a Community Affairs at wells fargo for the midatlantic region. And so want to be here representing wells fargo is both an avid reader myself. I really dont remember a time in my life when i wasnt an avid reader. I just loved reading. I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina and had the benefit of the library account be an adjacent to backyard. But at the library of congress obviously, but its a wonderful asset to the community. Around the corner to parents to pick out books and am feeling very, very grown up when i got to go by myself to check out books myself. Ive attended here today come you must all know books can take you to foreign lands and give you a different perspective about your neighborhood. They can introduce you to people that came generations before and connect people in real time. My favorite incident happened to me when i
Research hospital in order to address some of the major diseases that are endemic to the region. With tremendous wealth comes also some, some diseases such as, for example, adult diabetes, Childhood Obesity and some of those other things that qatar is now trying to position itself as a Global Leader in addressing. I hate to end tonights discussion with a mention of diseases, but its been [laughter] its been a pleasure and an honor being here. Thank you all, and my thanks again to osama. Thank you. [applause] before you adjourn, if you dont mind, i would like to say that we have professor kamrava for two more days here. First hell be appearing at the Carnegie Endowment tomorrow at 1 p. M. To give a talk and then back here at the ccas for a conference on religious and secular trends in africa, and he will also be giving a paper on qatars involvement with some of the religious developments in the region. So, please, join us again tomorrow and the day after. But for now, please join us out
Literally, right . I think he was. And thank you to pat coyle as well, ron robinson whos not here, but the Young Americas Foundation longtime executive director. And thank you for all that you do for young people, for campuses across the country and for con serving and preserving the reagan ranch and reagan legacy. Ronald reagan and reagan conservativism was about conserving and preserving as well, so thats more on that in a minute. But also, too, thanks to cspan for being here. People often call cspan and they say thank god for cspan. Well, i echo that. I mean, theres not many sources out there as objective as c respond. They just put it out there unedited, no commentary, let it speak for itself, and theres so many talks like this that go on all around the country thousands of times a year. And ill often there could just be a camera here to capture this and record it and broadcast it, and only cspan does that. So much appreciated. My topic today, what is a reagan conservative, and as