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Religion is slowly going out of fashion in america. church attendance is, as they are in most countries around the world, have been falling. theres a sense that young people arent as energized by perhaps religious conviction as their predecessors and their parents and so on, yet at the same time, you have the astonishing ratings success of the bible series, the mark burnett series which took everyone by surprise and seemed to reenergize typically amongst the young an interest in all things relig...

>> theres a lot of conjecture at the moment about whether religion is slowly going out of fashion in america. church attendance is, as they are in most countries around the world, have been falling. theres a sense that young people arent as energized by perhaps religious conviction as their predecessors and their parents and so on, yet at the same time, you have the astonishing ratings success of the bible series, the mark burnett series which took everyone by surprise and seemed to reenergize t...

Any president in almost 60 years. >> $6 trillion in new debt since he became president. im not scug a political question. to me this is more of a morale issue. you cant steal from your kids and grandkids. >> and the people before world war ii is when it really started deteriorating and always felt we needed to pay our debts down. again you will see lots of quotes in the book about what our founding fathers and some of their predecessors thought about sending debt to the next generation. that, in...

Could be ready to strike the u.s. with an intercontinental missile. aides know that north korea receive 45 percent of the food and 90 percent of the energy reports and so for the moment the administration like the predecessors remains hopeful that beijing ask exexert impact. time is not now on our side. harris. >> and thank you for more on well bring in bob scale who is a fox military an limpt. >> hi, harris. >> when you hear state of war and as a former general who led troops in battle what doe...

Any president in almost 60 years. >> $6 trillion in new debt since he became president. im not scug a political question. to me this is more of a morale issue. you cant steal from your kids and grandkids. >> and the people before world war ii is when it really started deteriorating and always felt we needed to pay our debts down. again you will see lots of quotes in the book about what our founding fathers and some of their predecessors thought about sending debt to the next generation. that, in...

Christian calendar. for catholics today, its the first good friday with a new pope who does things his own way. this holy week has already had its own first. pope francis presiding over international events today. yesterday, he broke with tradition again. he washed the feet of two women. one of them was a muslim. this has never been done before. what does this tell us about the pope? >> never been done before by a pope. hes washed the feet of women back in argentina. fact is, this is the first t...

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Here going to the prison and doing this some of the comments that he made and going off campus if you will from the vatican and into other neighborhood churches. do you believe he is doing that? is he pushing back a little bit on the institution? do you see him more or less falling in step with a different style? >> well, i dont know that the style and traditions are really unrelated. i think he is clearly breaking from certain traditions. the things he chose to war when he was announced it the ...

Reason. but its easy, especially i think in the west, in a secular west to overintellectualize christianety. christianity is not about an idea and not about the rituals that we do. those are very, very important things. the church has a long and important, very valuable intellectual tradition but those things are there because they point to personality reality. they point to a person whose name is jesus christ. it is encounter with jesus christ is the purpose of the church. if the church is not ...

What has been their reactions? >> reporter: well, tamron, as you said. this is a poach firsts. he broke away from tradition so many times. but he is also, the pope of lasts. he is the pope. he wants to be the pope of those who have lost hopeful there is nobody who needs more hope than young and juvenile inmates. thats why he decided to go to the juvenile center to wash their feet instead of going to st. johns basilica where most of his predecessors went to wash the feast priests. he wants to be ...