Scripps howard award. Or he is joined tonight in conversations by a Senior Investigative reporter with the Global Investigations team at the associatedre press. Previously he worked for the Boston Globe Spotlight Team where he shared a closer side of her revealing the cover of the sexual abuse in church. You can see it on the Silver Screen on the film spotlight. Hes been a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice and recently published an article exposing the church for taking aid while they were sitting on billions. Tonight they are discussing the truth at the heart of the lies. In this striking book, james takes a thorough look at himself, his faith and the Catholic Church itself and argues a male supremacist clerical is and is both of the root cause and ongoing enabler of the sexual abuse crisis. This book is both an exposure of the problems and a call for the muchneeded reform. I will leave you with a quote from stephen who is one of my favorite riders. This moving and relevant to rebook to a
Gave it the privileged position as there are religion of the land. This was a big occasion the tenth anniversary. All of the bishops were summoned and mussolinis own representatives with a bear. The kings son would either. The world would be watching. It was a speech that the pope saw as his last opportunity to get out a dramatic message. The killy rots a. I dont know how to work this. One button which doesnt seem to do anything. Im just going to show you a couple of images to illustrate. That is what we are trying to do but i dont want to keep you there. This shows you get an idea of the last 10 days of his his life when he looked like it if you go to the next image here you see both as a younger man. At the time they both came to power in 1922 which is the beginning of my story. Benito mussolinmussolin i is a 39yearold, a rabblerouser. Through an extortion he had come to power just a few months after the pub came to power. The dictator came to depend on the pope and vice versa and th
Pius xi and italian dictator Benito Mussolini who both obtained power in 192. This is about an hour. Well, thank you, it is a pleasure to be here. The book was just publish ad few days ago and great to have you here to help milan much it. The, let us begin by setting the scene. Some of you are more familiar with this than other the. Its a scene i use in the prologue of the book to help set it up even though the scene comes near the end of the story, the popes last days. The pope is found in his office. He is ailing, he is elderly, he is infirmed. He begs god to give him a few more days to live. He has something he needs to say and realizes he has very little time left on the earth. For years the pope had been in good health, known as the robust, mountaineer pope as a young priest, climbed many high alpine peeks. He was known as i am peer just, as demanding while scholarly and devout. He insisted on knowing every detail of everything going on in the vatican and making all the decisions
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
Welcome. Im bob abernethy. Its good to have you with us. With less than three eks unti election day, polls show divided cturamg religious voters, especially catholics, who have been almost evenly split between president obama and governor romney. On thursday, both candidates attended the annual Al Smith Charity Dinner sponsored by the catholic archdiocese of new york. At the usually lighthearted event, both men made jokes at their own expense, but obama ended on a serious note its written in scripture that tribulation produces perseverance. And perseverance, character. And character, hope. This week, the u. S. Catholic bishops have been urging special prayers for religious liberty. At a mass to open the rosary novena for life and liberty, archbishop william lori said catholics must bring their beliefs to the public square. Religion came up briefly at the president ial debate tuesday, when mitt romney made a rare reference to his mormon faith. And i believe were all children of the same