Ohio, pennsylvania and texas and florida. 177,000. Talking specifically in english. We are a 501 c 3 and transparent when it comes to issues that galvanize them. If you look at the catholic vote along the lines of not just equity but the idea of who is participating, its not surprising you see a real strike when it comes to women and family, when it comes to environment and health. Women outperform men in the Latino Community. The 67 went to the polls compared to their counterparts to 39 . When you start trying e. J. Had a question. When you start trying to start inside out, you Start Talking about issues that matter. If their parents all of a sudden get sick or dont have the social safety net, they are expected to take on that role for their families. We did a survey with emilys list in nevada with young women and one of the top reasons latinos would not reasons latinos went on about it was not just immigration but theyre increasingly interested in the platform of candidates when it c
We come back, these often overlooked works of mercy. Thank you. Archdiocese of San Francisco overseeing eight cemeteriesa na welcome back to mosaic. My guest today is monica williams. Monica is the director of the Catholic Cemeteries or the archdiocese of San Francisco, overseeing eight cemeteries, and she received a bachelors degree at the Catholic University of america. Monica began working in the field of funeral and Cemetery Services in 1989, a licensed funeral director or an cemetery manager, and hose be seeing of and holds the position of secretarytreasurer and monica serves on the paris finance council, and facilitates the support group there. Welcome. Parish financial counsel, and facilitates the support there. Local monica, and it is nice to have you. We have been sharing with our viewers what it means that pope francis declared this the year of mercy, cultivating different ways to love our neighbors around the world. Today we want to focus on two works of mercy that are often
Debate are john mashek, correspondent for u. S. News world report, jack white, correspondent for time magazine, norma quarles, correspondent for nbc news, and robert boyd, Washington Bureau chief for knightridder newspapers. Sander vanocur, senior Political Correspondent for abc news, is our moderator tonight. Sandy. Vanocur thank you, dorothy. A few words about the order of our format tonight. The order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Congresswoman ferraro won the toss. She elected to speak last. Therefore Vice President bush , will get the first question. The debate will be built upon a series of questions from the four reporters on the panel. A reporter will ask a candidate a question, a followup question and then the same to the other candidate, then each candidate will get to rebut the other. The debate will be divided into two parts. The first section on domestic , affairs, the second on foreign affairs. Now the manner of address was decided by the candidates
In the big apple and he is making his way shortly to st. Patricks cathedral and earlier today the pontiff addressed the joint meeting of congress then met with homeless people, being assisted by Catholic Charities and had lunch with them. We are going to get back to the popes story in america in just a moment but there is another huge story we are following as well. Tragedy on one of the holiest days in islam, over 700 people were crushed to death in a stampede during the annual hodge in saudi arabia. Hundreds more were injured as many as 800 more injured. Saudi arabias king solomon promised a swift investigation into the worst disaster in two decades, we will have much more tonight in our 7 00 eastern hour. Lets get to libby casey now live on capitol hill as our coverage of the pope continues and libby is it safe to say the pope left quite the impression on capitol hill tonight . Absolutely tony and a lot was on a personal level. As we heard from senators and house members reacting to
Have to say one of the most memorable is him getting out of that fiatt in front of this elaborate ceremony. A perfect symbol stephanie for the way this pope approached his office, to set aside some trappings of power and to be humble and to be authentic and not stand on airs of any sort. You can tell when he was listening to president obama speak he was paying very, very careful attention. During the ceremonial parts he seemed a little bit more tired and seemed like he wanted to get to the main meat of the matter to bring the message about justice, religious liberty and Climate Change and the trip shows up a little more in the address than we will see in some more religious ceremony like the masses and prayer services. What will happen from here is he will sign the guest book that mike was talking about and a sort of exchange of gifts. Is that usually a symbolic gift . Its a tricky one. If you are the president of the United States what do you give the pope . That is a difficult one fo