and catholics were swayed by those as well. also there was a real degree of moral issues going on here. the debate over abortion funding and health care reform. a lot of things the christian right were hammering the obama administration on for a long time. there was a sense the obama administrati waspushed over o the cultural left. that made lot of catholics anxious and uneasy. >> you know, a lot of people say well of course these religious groups went republican because the whole electorate went republican more so this time around. i've been talking to strategists who crunched the numbers. they said, well, yes. that was a pattern throughout the electorate. religious voters, especially protestants and catholics voted more republican at much bigger rates and margins than the general electorate. >> and y? >> well, there's a lot of issues. people also say the republicans were doing a lot more outreach. and specifically targeting the base communitieds. and there was democrats the democrats do that as much. >> david, why do you thin

my kids went to catholic schools. i did everything i could to be a part of the community, and is so hard that if somebody could get away with this -- they are supposed to allow us to a have the fiesta there every june, and they were going to keep everything. we were promised to the world, and we have nothing. i have been on this over 60 years, but i have never been so crushed over five years of my life. >> if i may ask you a question please. first of all, the idea of having a fiesta and continuing even a limited capacity of the church -- did that ever occur? >> no, because they were trying to make it did jim, and there was going to be a removable floor, and they were going to have -- trying to make it a jig, and they were going to have removable floor. >> in the last few years, has anybody contacted you to let you know what their plans are going to be? >> no, i am on the parishioners board. they have my address. i give the paper from the catholic church every saturday, so i have never gotten anything as a parishioners

or praying with a catholic? >> no, it's not inappropriate. for you to join with the person may give them great joy. they also might think they are converting you. >> rabbi jeffrey silberman is one of the jewish instructors. >> when do you offer direct prayer to people that you are working with? >> most patients you can ask them just would you like prayer, and they will tell you. >> father, son, and holy spirit, may anne be at ease. may she be free of all pain and suffering. >> as part of the medical team, chaplains often provide insight about the spiritual needs of patients. buddhists relate to patients in a non-theistic way. >> many chaplains coming into a hospital, they are coming from a theology, and they are coming from a doctrine, that this is what you do, this is how you tend to the sick. you give them the sacraments -- you give them the last rites, whatever it is. for us, we are coming in from a place of just being present to whatever is arising in the moment. >> i was training with other seminarians of c

the catholic's tigs on birth control and condoms is a blanket no. in this interview, what the pope said, in a limited number of cases where the purpose of condoms is to prevent disease and in particular to prevent the transmission of hiv-aids, that they could be morlally accept i aable. this is an informal interview way journalist, not a church document. doesn't make it a binding catholic teaching but suggests the pope is open to it and that is interesting indeed. >> when you talk about limited use, specifically in this book it points out the pontiff is saying it is okay for condom use when it pertains to men having sex with men, especially as it pertains to helping to slow down or make some sort of impact on the transfer of hiv and aids virus. now, is the pope confirming that he did, indeed, say these things as being quoteed by this journalist in this book? >> oh, sure. a writer or retired now but was for many year as writer for the eunuch daily, an old friend of benedict x16 he did two interviews before his election. he was given a full meeting wi

i am the principal of the catholic academy. the comment i want to make is that the planning department contacted the school. that did not happen to my knowledge. there was no contact between the planning department and the megan furth planning academy -- catholic academy. i just want to add to the comments but we are serving students from the western addition and bayview hunters point and that the vast majority of our students reside in the tenderloin, and i can submit their zip codes, socio-economic status to verify that we are a schools serving the community and steering exceedingly amazing job at that. the students we have at our academy are outperforming their public-school appears in -- peers in reading and math. we have very little in terms of overhead in what we spend at our school. everything is invested in our children. we are here to talk about what goes on in the building and sacred heart, but i invite everyone here who has an interest in the future of sacred heart to see what came of the students who are attending t

there was a note -- catholic. there was a note from justice blackman saying can you read a report in this opinion, give it an eye as a catholic. there were calls among some catholics to excommunicate him. i'm going to cough, so you percent take over. >> he never -- better take over. he never actually l wrote an abortion opinion except in the cases where the issue was the funding of abortions for poor women. he never wrote a sub substantive about the right to abortion. the only time he ever wrote a separate opinion was when it involved the funding issue. >> yes. you referred to my question twice this evening that was in the book regarding women's rights and his, his role in enabling them to be higher than before, but yet he refused to hire a woman. i don't understand that. at all. [laughter] i don't know if you can explain it, but it seems incredible. >> he came from a different era. he, he -- when he arrived at the supreme court, he had never had a woman as a professional colleague. i don't think he'd ever seen a

an irish catholic. for 30 years he was the only catholic on the court. 1936 until justice scalia joined him. a stream so extraordinary now. but 30 years he was the only catholic. he was stereotyped from the beginning. this happy leprechaun. he was a small -- not a tall guy . he was a very personable man. very friendly. it was genuine. you see stories from his confirmation describing a jaunty irishman. is very much how his replacement was character and stereotyped as a fiery latina. unfortunately that stereotype stock. it played into his second notion . how he did his job as a justice. there was this notion that he was this irish or boss. going through the hallway, shaking hands, making deals, slapping backs. he deeply resented that idea. in many ways rightfully sell. his success was not due to the fact that somehow he was a politician working the room with all. he was an extraordinary consensus builder. he had extraordinary skills. interpersonal was only a piece of it. he also had an extraordinary gifts

to go to catholic schools? >> exactly. >> the government money you claim is at issue here is the money that contributed to the sto. that decision of whether to give the money to an sto or not, whether to give it to a religiously affiliated sto or a nonaffiliated one, that is in the hands of a private individual, just as the voucher program was. >> that is true. >> there is no discrimination in that choice. >> let me put it to you this way. suppose the government gave money to the sto directly, itself. the sto then gave out the scholarships. would it be constitutional for the sto to say to a parent who asks for a scholarship, are you catholic? if you are not, we will not give you a scholarship. >> perhaps not, but you have an intervening parent or contributor. it is that person who is making the decision of whether to give it to a religious or non- religious organization. it is not the government making that decision. that was the same thing in zelman. >> it is not a parent by justice kennedy's question before.

they will join part of the roman catholic church set up by the vatican for disaffected anglicans. the men, who were jr. retired bishops, are opposed to the plans to ordained female bishops. >> pope benedict anchor the leader of the church of england, the archbishop of canterbury, when he invited anglicans to convert to catholicism. five bishops and will taken up on the offer. they oppose women serving as bishops, and they were anchored -- angered by the lack of sufficient exemptions to serve under a woman. >> to go to the roman catholic church or any other church -- that is fine. that is entirely their truest. and maybe a little pre-emptive for some people. we do not even know entirely the arrangement that would be made for those people, the minority, who remain in the church who are against women ordination. >> but anglicans now considering leaving their church say their concerns go further than the ordination of women. they claim the church of england has given up our range of traditional beliefs and practices that made it part of the universal church, with roman catholics. >> t

gregory catholic church on the city's west side on tuesday. they say that people have found guns in their neighborhoods, even in their yards sometimes. at the church, they say, seems like a safe haven. >> we know it's not the hardened criminals turning in the guns, these are guns that could be used in modern crimes and are used in modern crimes throughout the city. >> people turning in the guns got up to $100 from the catholic review. city police officers, they processed the guns after that and then destroy them. you can still turn in the guns at the church if you're still interested. >>> make sure you join us tonight for abc2 news at 11 :00. brian keebler looks at the dna of a gun. by the time someone submitted a gun crime, it's passed through so many hands. we get an exclusive look at how investigators trace the gun determined from where it came before ever hitting baltimore streets. that's tonight at 11:00. >>> rita colwell, cholera expert at orange park and johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health in baltimore says the link between

meet mark and dean. >> i'm protestant. >> and i'm a catholic. >> reporter: new to the sport of basketball, they had to put aside their differences to learn how to play. >> when we're on the court practicing together, the religion is just out the window. >> i just know that they are my teammates. and i'll always stick with them. >> reporter: now they're not only practicing together, they hang out off the court too. >> well, the friendships i've made through full court peace have just been amazing. >> like anytime they come knock on my door, i bring them in, give them a bed to sleep because just they're really, really nice guys. >> reporter: after weekly practices alternating between the catholic and protestant schools, the season culminates with a trip to the united states. >> i think it's important for them to come to america because america is a melting pot and protestants and catholics specifically get along very well in the states. there's no conflict. >> reporter: once they make it stateside, the boys stay with host families. >> i had a family called the coons, like robert, judy, and

and losing mass attending catholics by an 18 to 40, a slowghter among the key groups. the evangelical groups turning out in largest numbers we've seen voting heavily republican. i don't know what you data showed on women, but the c nrk n poll was 52-48 which is basically a tie, losing men i believe by 13 points in the c nrk n data. what do you have? one point? >> white women it was 57 republican, democrat and for our poll on white women we had 57-40. we were different with 58-40. >> you can see this is -- >> a one point difference. >> this is really across the board. we are viewing this as a two election process at a minimum. the house is now in pro-family tax cutting fiscally conservative hands. we are very excited about leader joan john boehner and his leadership team, but there's work to be done and we're not going to rest until president obama is replaced by pro-life profamily conservative president, and harry reid is replaced by a pro-life profamily conservative leader in the majority and senate. we're redoubling our efforts going into 201. as you can imagine, we

, arrived and brought catholic settlers in 1634. and that was the beginning in the english speaking colonies of the catholic church. so we have a history here. we have a deeply rooted history and, in fact, the first -- the first catholic bishop for the entire uited states was born in what is now the archdiocese of washington in marlboro. >> really? >> and he was elected bishop for the whole church in the united states in bowie. so all of this is part of our hiory. we,hen you look back and you see this rootedne, it seems to where we are today and what our responsibilities are. in all of those centuries the task of e church, the task of the bisho has been to continually announce the gospel and teach the gospel message and invite people to live it, to experience it, to share it. >> and as a bishop for 25 years that's what you've beendoing. we have more to talk about on "vi "viewpoint." we'll take a quick break and be right back. ♪ [ female announcer ] keurig has over 200 varietie of gourmet coffee and tea choose from. ♪ keurig is t

>> into active catholic churches. if i could finish one further paragraph that i think clarifies this, while the notice of visitation, the violation by the building department, the personal property was at that time are owned by and had already been removed by the buyer, not by the academy. the buyer had completed the removal which he had purchased when the work order was posted. the city code does not require a permit, and no violation of city code occurred. supervisor mirkarimi: i will as k you a question. pertinent to the threat of the discussion -- thread of tehe discussion, was there no communication to the community that this was going to occur? there were a lot of people surprised by this action. >> i would like to meet with them and meet with you. twice i came to see you and you did not answer me when i asked for an appointment. i don't think this is the place to be discussing a very personal and emotional issues. i welcome an opportunity to continue this discussion and collaboration on a personal level. super

catholic church are not observing church teaching on issues like consequent septiotr. there's a lot of cafeteria thinking. >> i think picking and choosing a good way to put it. i think there is a satisfy tiara mentality. that can apply to even religious beliefs. you think that religion is in the climb in the united states. >> no, i don't. i've vested a intt i teach at religion at boston college. it's not a commercial anything. religion is powerful. there's people i don't think it's true that we're in the middle of another great awa awakening. >> let me grijalva you some statistics. look at marriage. in 19 snrirtss. the number of unwed couples shot up 1 50%. >> marriage ins decline. i think that's true. i think that's true. maybe paul and i agree on there is a battle going on here between these two ways of thinking about the world. one more can you have n nent. >> the church authorities cannot keep marriage which is a centerpiece as ovenant. >> the church authorities cannot keep marriage which is a centerpiece as we that this force is irresistible sooner or later we're

catholic church are not observing church teaching on issues like consequent septiotr. there's a lot of cafeteria thinking. >> i think picking and choosing a good way to put it. i think there is a satisfy tiara mentality. that can apply to even religious beliefs. you think that religion is in the climb in the united states. >> no, i don't. i've vested a intt i teach at religion at boston college. it's not a commercial anything. religion is powerful. there's people i don't think it's true that we're in the middle of another great awa apawakening. >> let me grijalva you some statistics. look at marriage. in 19 snrirtss. the number of unwed couples shot up 50%. >> marriage ins decline. i think that's true. i think that's true. maybe paul and i agree on there is a battle going on here between these two ways of thinking about the world. one more can you have n nent. >> the church authorities cannot keep marriage which is a centerpiece as ovenant. >> the church authorities caot keep marriage which is a centerpiece as we that this rce is irresistible sooner or later we're goin

>> washington archbishopconald whirl has a new title and the catholic church is celebrating. we're on the phone with rome going in depth. >>> new developments in the stabbing death of a virginia teenager tonight and an arrest. >>> a deadly day on the roads. two people killed in northern virginia. the mother of one is speaking out and a violent crash in maryland as police try to make it stop. this wreck took a life as l. >>> a family of four all innocent victims in that maryland crash and that is where we begin. thanks for joining us at 10. i'm will thomas. >> i'm maureen umeh. montgomery county police were trying to pull over the car when the driver crossed the center line and in an instant, lives were changed and matt ackland is live with more. >> reporter: just a horrible accident. let me tell you some of the information we have learned. this began at a restaurant close to this spot around 3:00 today. police were called after there was a report of a domestic dispute between a man and a woman and then their child was there also. apparently the man jumped into the woman's car

. >>> so a comment by pope benedict is raising eyebrows within the catholic church. it is raising hopes the church may be loosening some of its prohibitions about the use of condoms. >> reporter: the comments are revealed in a book due out tuesday. the product of days of interviews of the pope by a german journalist. the vatican's newspaper releasing excerpts today. >> the pope is saying that condoms in themselves aren't inherently wicked, it is what people do with them that can be good or bad. >> reporter: in the book the pope was asked about controversial comments he made last year while on a visit to africa saying the aids crisis there could not be stopped. in the book the pope said his point was that simply handing out condoms was not enough to solve the problem of hiv aids. he then suggested in certain instances using a condom might be morally defensible. not to prevent pregnancy but to avoid spreading disease. there may be a basis in the case of some individuals as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom where this can be a first step in the direction of a

catholic bishops say there is a shortage of exorcists in this country. so, they met this weekend to talk about how to manage the demand for an ancient practice. a practice that is sometimes ridiculed and is alive and well in this country. and even more so overseas. we'll talk to the bishop in charge of this closed-door conference coming up. >>> but we'll start with the weather. >> yeah, some devilish weather to tell you about, indeed. parts of the midwest are breaking out snow blowers this morning to dig out from one of the heaviest pre-thanksgiving snowstorms in years. in minnesota, the storm is being blamed for more than 400 traffic accidents and 2 deaths in wisconsin. j.c. monahan from our boston affiliate, wcvb, is here with morning. good morning, j.c. >> good morning, bianna. a look at the landscape has changed. you have to go back to 1991 to find a november storm that hit parts of the midwest this hard. this morning, across three states they're digging out from this unusually early winter blast. it was a prewinter wallop. the twin cities got the wo

catholic bishops say there is a shortage of exorcists in this country so they met this weekend to talk about how to manage the demand for an ancient practice that is sometimes ridiculed and is alive and well in this country. we'll talk to the bishop in charge of this closed door conference coming up but we'll start with the weather. >> yeah, some devilish weather to tell you about, indeed. parts of the midwest are breaking out snow blowers to dig out from one of the heaviest pre-thanksgiving snowstorms in years. in minnesota, the storm is being blamed for more than 400 traffic deaths and two deaths in wisconsin. jc monahan from wcvb is here with morning. good morning. >> good morning. a look at the landscape has changed. you have to go back to 1991 to find a november storm that hit parts of the midwest this hard. this morning across three states they're digging out from this unusually early winter blast. it was a prewinter wallop. the twin cities got the worst of it with snow falling at an inch an hour making road conditions miserable. >> it's pretty crazy. we've been seeing cars going

will this change everything for all catholics in days to come? >>> and celebrate. william and kate have their date and place. but we learn what the in-laws are doing to give their daughter a new role in the wedding plans. >>> good evening. it was the middle of the night when advisers woke president obama to say the unpredictable nuclear nation of north korea had fired mortars on civilians in the south for the first time since the korean war. the target, an island in south korea, a country in crisis mode tonight. more than 28,000 american troops are stationed there. so, has a fuse been lit? what does everyone do next? let's turn to martha raddatz who covers national security for us. she's standing by tonight. martha, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, diane. the situation was already so tense after the discovery of two new nuclear facilities in north korea. but this attack has now put south korea's military on the highest level of alert short of war. it was an artillery barrage. dozens of mortars pounding the island, setting homes and hills on fire and leaving

as catholics, we take them one at a time. it won't happen all at once. it's a process, and i agree with what the pope is doing. >> here is what the pope said in the book. he says, quote, there could be single cases that can be justified. for instance, when a prostitute uses a condom. doesn't it sound like the pope is justifying prostitution, too. surely not, but it's a pretty bizarre analogy. let's talk more with atika shubert. what's the reaction been like since these quotes have surfaced? >> well, for a lot of aid workers who are working to prevent the spread of hiv/aids, these are very welcome comments. they really want to see more of this kind of stuff coming out of the vatican for a number of reasons. for one thing, for catholics around the world, it is a way of accepting what has been known in health circles that condoms prevent hiv/aids. this is a message they want to spread. i talked to the head of the unaids and he says the biggest impact is that catholic aid agencies will now consider when they do their work, promoting the use of condoms. he sa

experts say that view is one the pope and catholic theollogians have privately held for years but never stated publicly until now. >> the fact that there is any kind of movement at all on the question of artificial contraception and even more importantly on the question of how do we stop disease by the use of condsoms -- that's significant. >> reporter: the pope also defended the church's traditional teachings, banning contraception and abortion yet his comments are drawing mixed reactions from catholics. >> if you start changing things like that, i don't know what would come next. >> i think it's very advanced for the pope and catholic thinking. >> i think it's long overdue, frankly. >> reporter: the pope's comments do not carry the weight of official church law, but many interpret his remarks as a clear sign the vatican may have more to say on the issue in the future. >> a setback today for efforts to rescue 29 men trapped by an explosion yesterday inside a coal mine on new zealand's south island. officials say they'll have to drill a new shaft to test for toxic gases before teams can

. ♪ >> the scandal of child abuse by catholic priests and nuns has rocked the church and embroiled in costly compensation claims and a number of countries. in some countries, the sums involved have yet to be agreed on. negotiations continue. austria has reached a deal to set up a foundation to help the victims and make compensation payments to them. the amount each victim receives will be decided by independent commission. >> the sexual abuse scandal that engulfed the catholic church has not spent austria. at least 400 people were abused in various churches institutions and affiliated schools here. the crimes may have been committed decades ago, but they have left a legacy of shame and fear. he was subjected to abuse for years. it started at the age of 13. he is now 47. the emotional scars have yet to heal. he is one of the few who went public to tell their story. he knows of at least 25 other former pupils who were beaten and forced to perform sexual acts on their religious studies teacher, a priest. >> i have to undress and help to masturbate. i was a child. i did not understand. i

in a new book the leader of the catholic church says male prostitutes should use it to prevent hiv. could reduce the risk of infection. the catholic church has long opposed condoms since they are a form of artificial contraception. >>> the president and other world leaders discussed a treaty with russia over nuclear arms and taking troops out of afghanistan. >> we agreed to deepen our cooperation in several critical areas. on afghanistan, counter narcotics and a range of 21st century security challenges. >> and turning a source of past tension into a source of potential cooperation against a shared threat. >>> the president says he wants to end u.s. combat missions by the ends of 2014. >> the european allies would provide training and support beyond that time. >>> meantime in response of the uproar over the new tsa screening policy. president obama is asking if there is a less intrusive way to screen travelers because the tsa has constantly refined and measured how to assure the american people's safety. the passengers have had enough and already planning to boycott the new procedur

. >> beth cooper takes us to a celebration at a local catholic school. >> at our lady of lourdes catholic school, the principal prepped the students. on the school steps, the students discussed details of tomorrow's ceremony. at this school, students wore red to signify the cardinal. the students here are learning about the big event. it was a similar scene in many washington-area schools. this great thing is from a school in northeast washington. he has been a familiar presence. >> he is nice and he is generous. i had a privilege of being an alter boy at a mass. >> he has always been a great christian a role model for all of us. >> would so many students wearing red today, this is an honor everybody can appreciate. >> i remember -- i believe they will remember this day for all their lives. rebecca cooper -- >> rebecca cooper, abc 7 news. >>> we are going to see a cold night. all of our attention is pointing to the big trouble day. let's turn to the weatherbug network. if you live anywhere near the high school in gaithersburg, it is 44 degrees. there were highest in the upper-50's in the

. >> rick: also, the vatican opening the door to what has been a taboo topic for the catholic church and the pope changes his stance on an issue in which none of his predecessors had ever yielded before. we'll go live to rome for a report. >> juliet: and 'tis the season for serious holiday travel. we'll get the until weather as millions take to the skies, railway, buses, this weekend before thanksgiving. >> rick: on capitol hill, no action yet on the battle over extending the bush era tax cuts set to expire december 31 and the lame duck congress doesn't act fast, your taxes, everybody's taxes, are going to go way up come january. molly henneberg live in d.c good to see you. republicans say the democrats aren't moving fast enough on extending those tax cuts. what's going on? >> hi, rick. yes, because the end of the year is coming quickly and the end of the lame duck session of congress is coming even faster. and republicans say preventing everyone's taxes from going up on january 1 should be the first order of business. here is more. >> americans don't think we should be raising taxes

now a moral issue and you are morally obligated not to knowingly infect the other person and yet the catholic church still doesn't agree with the use of condoms in terms of as a method of birth control how do you think those confusing messages affect people i mean there are one billion catholics in this world. i mean i think that this is major mixed messages and we just don't want to hear those things i mean people want to know exactly what the catholic church thinks and i think that it's time for us to move into the modern century i think it's great that he says that it's ok sometimes but why not say that it's great to practice safe sex all the time why not get behind that because if you think about it when you're involved in prostitution he's saying be safer because you don't really know who you're going to be us and so it's more of a moral obligation but sometimes the people that we think we know the best are the ones that are the leaves least safe for us to have sex with so it's just the same thing and i think just take a stance make a strong message now the last thing i want to ask you i

. >>> pope benedict has signaled what could be a major change in catholic church policy on the use of contraceptives. in an interview the pope said it is okay to use condoms in some cases. more from abc's miguel marquez. >> reporter: the pope's comments on condom use may be narrow, but they could have huge implications for catholics around the world, particularly in aids ravaged africa. >> as someone who worked in africa for a few years, i know the catholic church's stance on condoms really does influence people's behavior. >> reporter: the pope says in rare cases condom use may be justified like an hiv positive prostitute using condoms to prevent the spread of the disease. the pope says the church still doesn't consider condom use moral, but it calls limited acceptance a first step in a movement toward a different way, a more human way of living. since 1968 the church has stuck to its total ban on condom use, much to the frustration of some catholic clergy and workers in africa where millions have died from aids. >> i think catholics around the world should take from the statement th