I think the chicanery of deliverance prayer is a very good example why I keep referring to the Charismatic Renewal as a cult, despite the fact that it doesn't have a single powerful leader that everybody answers to.
This century has seen a dramatic collapse in religious practice, including Catholicism, in America. What is causing so many people to lose their faith?
because you are connecting kids to their parents parents who are in prison, in jail. what an awful experience it must be for them. they think of it as mom is okay. dad is okay. you can imagine what the parent feels. my god, my kid is okay. because we don t think of we are talking about individual parents and children, a very intimate relationship. all of this talk about immigrant children and so forth it s very individual, very personal. it is very personal. in this country where we talk about family all the time, right, i a big conversation, this is as personal as it gets. this is family. i think i mentioned it to you earlier, ron, the vast majority of these kids are charismatic catholics, evangelical christians. really. had he we go to chapel on sunday we run two services sometimes. we haven t heard a lot about that kids coming here who are evangelicals. right. these are kids that are coming from faith communities with incredible values. and these are family units
pope could be slipping into some form of chronic heart failure. are you hearing any worry in that vein? reporter: no, what i m hearing, brooke, is worry this is a pope who has a tendency to significantly overextend himself. consider, for example, that in rome on sundays, generally speaking, there are only two things you to. you go to mass and then you go out to eat. the last three sunday, we assume pope francis would go out to rome s olympic stadium to spend three hours, the 52,000 charismatic catholics. we have seen him conduct an up precedented peace summit, bringing together the israeli and palestinian president and head down to the rome neighborhood to spend, again, several hours with an ecstatic crowd, one of the most important movements. and this is not normal people activity. but this is instead francis trying to take maximum advantage of the time he s got. i think the circle around him isn t worried he s sick. i think the circle around him is