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12:01 on january 20th. >> your reactions and feelings today? >> first of all, happy martin luther king jr. day and thank you for having me. i think john lewis is serving of all of the respect we can give him. he was bloody on our behalf. we would not be able to vote if it werent for him. he is the conscience of the congress and an american hero. if john lewis saz said i was not legitimate. id have to look in the mirror. he might be justified because of his stature. he was an apostle of dr. king....

>> first of all, happy martin luther king jr. day and thank you for having me. i think john lewis is serving of all of the respect we can give him. he was bloody on our behalf. we would not be able to vote if it werent for him. he is the conscience of the congress and an american hero. if john lewis saz said i was not legitimate. id have to look in the mirror. he might be justified because of his stature. he was an apostle of dr. king. i dont know what is worse, donald trump lashing ou and insul...

Suggest an actual sexual relationship. it suggests a symbolic relationship between jesus and his church or jesus and the holy spirit. >> i dont have a conspiracy-theory view of why the text is broken. its just that this papyrus is very old, and when you touch it, it just fragments. so, there are many breaks in the text. this is only one. its one of the most provocative. >> the important thing for me is that mary magdalene was a major apostle in the first century. she was on the level with peter ...

Painted his last supper, sitting to the right of jesus is not john the apostle, as art historians have believed for centuries, but rather sitting to the right of jesus is actually mary magdalene. and then there is no cup on the table. theres no chalice. >> according to the novel, these are major clues in da vincis painting that mary magdalene was not only an apostle but the head of the church. elaine pagels disagrees. >> i happen to see john through leonardos eyes an that painting. for example, ...

Pope met with the muslim community at the main mosque in the nations capital telling the crowd that christians and muslims are brothers and must live as such. nbcs anne thompson has more on the popes historic visit to africa. >> reporter: pope francis opens the doors of this cathedral, a symbolic act to start the catholic churchs year of mercy in the capital that is the battleground between christians and muslims in the central african republic. francis says his mission here is to be an apostle ...

Congress along with abraham lincoln and martin luther king. dorothy day, the great apostle of social justice, thomas murton, the trappist monk and apostle of dialogue. both of them interestingly on the outs at different points in the church. so he is, you know, once again in terms of including people he is restoring these people to their rightful place in the church. >> picking up on that, the other two people he mentioned of course were as you said abraham lincoln and martin luther king. i find...

Moments. i dont actually know. lets go first to father martin. >> thats very honest. i feel the same way. there are so many. i have to say, im not embarrassed. i cried when he mentioned congress, two of my heroes, dorothy day and thomas martin. the great apostle of the poor, the great apostle of dialogue. one reason is hes speaking to americans, you know, through the example of americans and also these two figures were kind of on the outs for a while. social justice was something of a dirty word...

Not that these things are inimportant, of course, but we have been entrusted with a great responsibility. and this is why gods people rightly expect accountability from us but the true worth of our apostle. >> it is measured by the true value it has in gods eyes. to see and see valuate things from gods perspective, calls for constant, constant conversion in the first days and years of our vocation and need i say it demands great humility. the cross shows us a different way of measuring success.

The pope this morning whos known for quoting people for sources of authority, pope john paul ii, he quotes martin luther king, one of his famous lines about the promissory note that has been defaulted upon and that now it is time to honor it. very powerful things coming from the pope especially for the section on american history. what will he do today? theres going to be a very big mass for catholics today, the canonization of a pope. he is known as really the apostle of the catholic church in ...

Name means she comes from magdala. this one is a pretty good contender. all in all, its pretty exciting. we have to be wary about being overexcited. but its good stuff. >> whats your feeling about the relationship between magdalene and jesus? >> you mean -- mary magdalene, well, im sure that she wasnt his wife. i would say that shes definitely jesus closest female disciple. one of the things we find out about her from the new testament is that she is the apostle to the apostles. the first person...