portraits done. when you see them and look at yourself in the painting what did you say? that s the best picture i ever took. they re picasso like. we know the daili lama is a tough critic that goes back centuries. cnbc chigsed edcommissioned a study that said how many americans want to be ex patriots? 35% are considering leaving the country. when it comes to young people number is bigger. 55% of millennial would leave this country. there was a time everyone would want to stay. we keep hearing of people coming in. the study was called anchor index. it reveals the opposite. when they dug deep into it when they asked them why they wanted to leave, this tells you about the state of our economy and nation now. the most popular reason for wanting to leave was seek a better quality of life. that s the part that gets me.
the priesthood. i think it s doctrinal declarations are beautiful. they are out of time. it s precisely the crisis we haven t addressed. i was with some priests at dinner the other night teaching at a catholic university, living in a religious community and one of them said, you know, people just can t believe in these guys who wear these robes and it s easy to mock the clerical garb especially the dresses bishops are said to wear. nobody says that about the daili lama. why is that? there s all kind of reasons. if the people wearing clerical robes handle or mishand tell crisis in the way that they have, misunderstand their own role in it, right, what is driving people away from the church is not that priests have molested as horrible that is, or child rape. i m not saying people don t care about that. what makes them leave the church isn t that there are some preechts who have done that it s