Gunshots the city as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew this comes after a peaceful protest was broken up by a shooting allegedly by nigerias security forces. Im told me a lot of welcome to the program pope francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples this break from the vaticans traditional position on the issue the pope made the comment in a new documentary about him titled francesco which premiered on wednesday at the rome Film Festival the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. Knowledge joined by chicago based journalist michael of laughlin he is a journalist and author who covers religion and politics with a particular focus on the Catholic Church michael good to have you on the program how have the popes comments on same sex civil unions been received in the u. S. Its been a welcome statement to many of bt catho
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Pose a threat to the chancellor. Clause in a mock shift for the Catholic Church pope francis says he supports same sex civil unions observers are calling it the clearest language yet from the pontiff on gay rights and christianity. Im told me a lot of ball welcome to the program with just 2 weeks to go before the u. S. President ial election intelligence officials believe that iran and russia have interfered in the upcoming vote they accuse iran of being behind recent intimidating emails targeted at American Voters to sow unrest in multiple states they also stated that teheran and moscow obtained Voter Registration details with the goal of interfering in the election democratic voters in at least 4 battleground states received emails that threatened we will come after you if the recipients didnt vote for donald trump. U. W. Correspondent is in washington covering events for us. Can you tell us more about these accusations well tell me what we know at this point is that groups from iran
Gunshots in the city as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew this comes after a peaceful protest was broken up by shooting legendary by nigerias Security Forces. Im told me all of the ball welcome to the program pope francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples this break from the vaticans traditional position on the issue the pope made the comments in a new documentary about him titled francesco which premiered on wednesday at the rome Film Festival the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. Im now joined by chicago based journalist Michael A Laughlin he is a journalist and author who covers religion and politics with a particular focus on the Catholic Church michael good to have you on the program how have the popes comments on same sex civil unions been received in the u. S. Its been a welcome statement to many of bt
Ill even omit my customary lame professor humor about the ncaa tournament, for example, thats how serious this is. Lets think for a minute though about where were situated, what were working on here. In this last third of the course that we started last week, were dealing with the post revolutionary era. Weve built this idea that something radical and transformative happens to music nick the 1960s. You worked hard over the course of several weeks to establish those ideas. And we cant leave without justice a kind of baby boomer nostalgia for the days that were. What weve been trying to deal with is the sense of disappointment that the revolution somehow end nd the early 1970s, that popular music became a disappointment as thetically, politically. Thats the cliche. We saw plenty of evidence for it. What weve tried to do is say o kay, maybe if we shift perspective, if we dont simply buy the asumgtss thpgss that we the age of countercultural music i we do that, we may see music engaged in