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Last minute here in revolutionary square. but in a few minutes time, the pope will land at the international airport and will go down one of the main roads into havana. we expect lots of people by the side of those roads cheering him on. this pope, of course, the first latin pope, the first pope from this hemisphere, but also the first pope who s played the biggest role in improving u.s./cuban relations. so it seems like a bit of a victory lap. but the pope is not the kind of person to rest on his laurels. he ll continue pushing for the church to have a stronger role. during three different masses, he will be next to cuban president raul castro. that s something that s never happened. that cuban president it s certainly a sign of both respect and friendship that raul castro says he feels towards this pope, jim. an odd one, you might say. raul castro, an atheist. the pope, of course, the head of the catholic church. patrick oppmann, thanks very much. we look forward to watching this ....
Reestablishing connections like theirs. family once lost, but now found. and pope francis will be coming here where i m standing in havana s revolutionary square tomorrow for what is expected to be his largest mass in cuba. hundreds of thousands of people expected here, jim. then he will travel throughout the island, a mass near santiago, cuba, cuba s second largest city. and all of those masses, we expect raul castro to be in attendance. another first, another sign of the thawing relations between church and state in cuba, jim. raul castro, an atheist, but he says pope francis might get him praying again. don t miss a cnn special report on tuesday. the people s pope airs at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. and next on cnn, donald trump breaking his silence on the controversy surrounding a supporter who made anti-muslim remarks. what donald trump tweeted today, coming up. ....
they think it is a park in idaho. yes. crowder, you took a shot at atheist. it is life being fearfully and wonderfully created. there is a book called who really cares written by an atheist. and atheists and libertarians don t value life? we are talking about the doctor situation. i knew i would sleet slack from the atheist libertarians. do you believe in an ultimate purpose and destiny? it is not a bad thing if you do or don t, but it is a different world view. why does it make a difference in the value of life? you can t make the judgment. i didn t make the judgment, the study made the judgment. i m sorry, i must have the wrong you must. it is it makes no sense. it is a faulty judgment. but what was the study say ?g. ....
Written from an atheist s perspective. the vampire for me was a perfect metaphor for the way i felt, like a lost soul roaming in the darkness without god. and i poured a lot of my despair and my unhappiness and my grief for my lost faith into those books. reporter: in 1998, she says she experienced a conversion. i knew there were probably things that the church taught that i would find very hard. but at the moment of that conversion, i was really convinced that it would all work out. reporter: for the past 12 years she has lived as a committed catholic. instead of writing about vampires she switched to writing about christ and angels. in fact, her new book about angels called of love and evil comes out this fall. however, she says even though she knew she might struggle with the church s stance on social issues, she wasn t prepared for how frustrated she would become by things like the priest sex ....