cadillac. the pope is in a fiat. i think that will get through to all levels of the church. the challenge the church has gets to the church sex abuse scandal you were discussing over at the desk. if i could be critical a little bit about this spectacular trip that you and i witnessed a lot of it firsthand, if there had been women involved in planning this trip, would the first thing the pope had said on the sex abuse scandal be encouraged in front of the bishops? you have the men sitting up front and the women signature behind. this shows the critical need to get women involved. it s not going to be the priesthood. we all know that. in significant leadership positions because ultimately women are more involved in religion. if they re not getting the message they re welcome, young women especially are going to turn away in droves. john paul ii saying women can t be priests.
osprey and also following what is normally the president s helicopter, marine one. he finished 20 minutes of commoner that to 300 bishops which we ll get to very shortly. he will meet at the correctional facility which we expect to happen in the next hour. he will meet with officers in that hour and we will be covering him as he makes his way on his sixth day here on the east coast after he addressed some sem nar yans also this morning. young hopefuls, if you will, that will become priests some day, catholic priests. the pope, however, did make some new remarks this morning addressing the sex abuse scandal that has plagued the catholic church. i want to show a little bit of that to you and then we ll move on. translator: god weeps.
when necessary use words, and i think these days that pope francis, yes, he has used words, but i think in many ways he s been preaching in his gestures and his outreach, in his embrace, and especially shining light, bringing warmth and love to the people who are excluded. the fear of exclusion, the theme of eradicating exclusion has been constant throughout the visit. drawing together disabled children, convicts, the poor, the immigrants, all into this fold and into this warmth has been one of the greatest preaching moments of this trip. george, the news of this day made by this man had to do with the sex abuse scandal in the church. it was not enough for at least one victim s rights group, but for a lot of catholics it at least gets the conversation out
will take this and decide which cuban community or all of them receiving it and how they will decide to bring that gift and show that gift from pope francis to the cuban community of the united states. what we just saw, if you re just joining us, a little bit earlier was an announcement at the top of this message at around 9:15 a.m. local time there in philadelphia at st. martin s chapel. pope francis had released the remarks that he was to give, but at the top, he moved outside of his prepared remarks to address the sex abuse scandal that has plagued the church in the united states and throughout the world, and for more on that as we learn the information, where it came from, and what happened this morning, let s go to nbc news correspondent ann thompson in philadelphia as pope francis greets some of the bishops there as he moves onto his next item
800,000 worshippers in the heart of philadelphia. before the pontiff departs, he is set to speak one more time briefly before getting on his plane and we ll bring you that live when it happens within the hour. the messages we ve heard so far, love, family, faith and today he s emphasizing forgiveness. he began meeting in private with victims of sex abuse praising them as true heralds of mercy. pope francis promises to hold those responsible inside the church for the sex abuse scandal. then in philadelphia, a first from any pope, a visit to an american jail, offering hope and encouragement to some 100 inmates. among them, suspected killers and rapists. and then what we ve come to know about the pope, he likes to do the unexpected. this time, the pope s parade on the way to the mass, he got out of the popemobile to go into what has been dubbed the grotto. pope francis went inside and actually read some of them.