The featured speaker at Monday s Democratic luncheon will be Karen Gedney MD, author of 30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor. Dr Gedney is an internal medicine specialist who spent almost three decades as a physician in Nevada s correctional system. Today she is an outspoken advocate for Holistic Prison Reform.
reasons and, you know, correctional officers are injured and killed all the time. that s another extremely dangerous job, you know, vocations to be working in this. so he starts fighting with them and, you know, in one thing i ve seen in correction facilities, once you, you know, start fighting with the correction officers, they re going to call for backup and the odds are going to be it s going to be u-verses a dozen or half a dozen people and those aren t good odds, right? when you have, you know, emotions are high. if people are being injured, especially the correctional officers being injured, they re going to use whatever force is necessary to bring that situation to an end, an end meaning that this person has now been rehandcuffed, brought into some sort of hold and no longer a threat to the correction officers safety. tom bernie, thank you. any time. and still ahead, wyoming is the first state to ban abortion pills outright as we wait for a
years of conversation with this man. that is the thing that really strikes me. absolutely central to his life. he was in love with the lord. and he wanted others to be able to do the same thing. chris, you spent time talking to those who came to see the pope emeritus benedict. lying in state. i wonder what they told you about what it was about them that compelled them to come to rome for this. it was the way in which, something inspired. the vocations to the catholic priesthood. this is something that i think they will spend the rest of their lives sort of unfolding s works. studying his works. and shaping the ministry. so he is without a doubt one of the great minds of the 20th century. and for many of those men, that is what called them into ministry to begin with. debra, for a lot of catholics benedict was a man of contradictions. holding strict church doctrine
unfolded in europe and charged that benedict s record on abuse was mixed and there were other problems as well. benedict offended muslims with a speech suggesting islam could be a violent religion and sparked a global uproar when he lifted the excommunication for four bishops and one of them turned out to be a holocaust denier. a priest having discovered both vocations while growing up in southern germany. the pope never expected to be much more than a priest or university professor and that changed when he became pope. he made several trips including germany, australia, and portugal, surprisingly well-received by the crowds. pope benedict made the first state visit ever of a pontiff to the united kingdom in 2010 with all the pomp that goes with it, including a meeting
way out and what role has pope benedict played in that even after he left the position of being pope? well, of course, he was very discrete in the way he approached his emeritus status. i think the intellectual depth of benedict s pontificate will endure well into the future and as i say the vocations that he inspired will have his own influence as well. and let me say i think it s a mistake to think of benedict as some kind of arch traditionalist. he really represents the best of catholic liberalism in the sense he was in the model of newman. he was at the council and he understood religious liberty and you look through his writings and liberty, especially religious liberty comes up over and over again, this was not god s rottweiler as he s being called.