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Two of the three republicans took a break from campaigning, and the two democrats took a step back from open warfare. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders reached a kind of verbal truce this morning after doing battle over whos qualified to be president. Ive known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. Ll i respect Hillary Clinton. We were colleagues in the senate, and on her worst day, she will be, she would be an infinitely better president than either of the republicanre candidates. I think in the heat of the campaign, people say lots of things. I want to stay focused on the issues. There are contrasts between us, and i think thats fair game. Woodruff the frontrunners camp also dealt with former president clintons confrontation with protestersco yesterday. At an event in philadelphia, they jeered his record and his wifes on crime and race. You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter. Tell the truth. Woodruff today, in erie, pennsylvania, he voiced regret about the incident. I almost want to apologize for it, but i want to use it as an example of the danger threatening our country. I was talking past the protester the way she was talking past me. Woodruff both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigned in new york state today, and sanders announced hell visit the vatican next week to speak at a conference on social issues. On the republican side, donald trump canceled an event in california to stay in his home state. He said in a tweet so great to be in new york. Catching up on many things remember, i am still running a Major Business while i campaign and loving it meanwhile, trumps newly hired convention manager, Paul Manafort, insisted the frontrunner will win enough delegates before the convention that therell be no need for brokering. The reality is ted cruz has seen his best days. En the reality is this convention process will be over withes sometime in june, probably june 7. And it will be apparent to the world that trump is over that 1,237 number, and at that point in time, when it is apparent, everythings going to come together. S woodruff ted cruz was off the campaign trail today, while john kasich campaigned inmp connecticut. In the days other news, pope francis called for catholics to put conscience over dogma on critical moral issues. His statement 256 pages long suggested that some clergy might allow divorced catholics to take communion. There was no change in the churchs opposition to samesex marriage. Well explore the popes statement, after the news summary. Police in belgium say theyve arrested the last fugitive from the paris attacks in november. Mohamed abrini was picked up in a raid in brussels, along with four others. Prosecutors say he may also be the hatwearing suspect who escaped after the bombings in brussels. B at the moment, the investigators are verifying whether abrini, mohamed can be positively identified as being the third person present during the attacks in brussels nationaa airport, the socalled man with the hat. Woodruff mohammed abrinis exact role in the paris attacks has never been made clear. Greece resumed deporting migrants to turkey today, after a fourday pause. More than 120 people were ferried away from the greek island of lesbos under a deal with the european union. Human rights activists haveha condemned the deportations. The government of syria has released an american whos been held since 2012. Hes identified as kevin dawes, a freelance photographer. Russia says it aided in his release, flying him to moscow last week. Meanwhile, syrian activists report that scores of kidnapped workers are being released byas Islamic State militants. They were seized earlier this week. Secretary of state john kerry made an unannounced visit to baghdad today, and urged iraqis to focus on fighting isis. He met with Prime Minister haider alabadi, whos facing a political crisis over corruption, a struggling economy and poor security. It is important to have a unified and functioning government as rapidly as possible in order to move forward, so that all of these operations are not affected, and so that we give confidence to the coalition. Woodruff kerry said abadi did not ask for more u. S. Troops. The Obama Administration today turned over thousands of documents on operation fast and furious. The material involves a gun running investigation that mayg have let mexican drug gangs get their hands on 2,000 weapons. House republicans demanded the documents four years ago, but the president initially claimedn executive privilege. In january, a federal judge rejected that claim. Wall street finished the week with modest gains. The Dow Jones Industrial average was up 35 points to close near 17,577. The nasdaq rose two points, and the s p 500 added five. And, an inflatable room is headed toward the International Space station. It was launched today on a spacex rocket, for a twoyear test. Nasa animation shows how the popup module will be attached to the orbiting lab and inflated. It could prove an alternative tl metal enclosures. In another first, the booster rocket landed on an ocean barge today, to be reused. Still to come on the newshour the popes views on the church and the modern family; a look inside the most overcrowded prison system in the nation; why kenya is being targeted by the terror group al shabab, and much more. Woodruff todays pronouncement from the pope on family life was two years in thi making. Pope francis explicitly called for the church to be less judgmental. Instead, he said more support is needed for single and unmarried parents, as well as same sex couples. Divorced or remarried catholics should not be judged or discriminated against in church life. Priests can be merciful when it comes to delivering communion. But he did not change doctrine on samesex marriage, or on the role of contraception. We sample some of the reactionea now. Amanda june gargus is the student administrator at Campus Ministry at georgetownet universitys law center; Gloria Purvis is the host of a radio show on the ewtn Catholic Television network called morning glory; and marianne duddyburke is the executive director of dignity u. S. A. , which works on support and changes for l. G. B. T. Community in the church. And we welcome all three of you to the program. So lets begin, i just want to ask each one of you, what do you think of this latest statement by pope francis . Let me start with you, miss gargus. I think its a great thing. I think it falls well within what the pope has been saying all year about mercy and being in love with our neighbors and how we show mercy to people around us. So the saints and the sinners, those who conform with how we see gods love and those who may not necessarily be acting in the way that maybe traditional catholics tend to think of the church acting. Woodruff Gloria Purvis, what about you . My reaction was this is quite a message. It had a lot for everyone. I think it was a challenge for everyone. He clearly speaks within the confines of marriage faithful forever, but he says you need to be merciful to everyone. Walk with them, and one of myl love coexists with imperfection. I think there is a hopeful message for all of us. We all fall short of perfection and if were willing to listen and think with the mind of the church and try the form our conscious properly, the church c is with us. Woodruff marianneia duddyburke, what about you . What did you think when you read this . I find it to be a very uneven document. There arent certainly places whe it soars. I love the emphasis on respecting the formed consciences of so many of us and looking at the needs of the person. I think those are fantastic and really consistent with a lot of what pope francis has beene about. And then there are areas where it really falls short of what i think people were hoping for, and thats certainly true on the issue of l. G. B. T. People where there really isnt a lot of progress in this piece. Woodruff what were you expecting him to say in that regard . Well, i think what was most encouraging about this process was at the end of the first session, when there was some beautiful language that came out about l. G. B. T. People and how we should. Our gifts should be welcomed and honored by the church and how commitment between samesex couples could be a sign of real grace. Ce and that language was rolled back very quickly, but i think there was some hope that pope francis might take at least some of that and move it forward a bit. And he really doesnt. Woodruff gar amanda june gargus, whether its the language on samesex marriage that affect the l. G. B. T. Community or on the statement broadly, where do you think it could have gone further than it did . Well, i think the important thing to remember when it comes to documents like this is that the pope isnt in a position when making these types of statements to change church doctrine. So he has to be very realist nick our expectations of whats going to come out of these sessions and out of these features. But i think that one thing that he didnt touch on that i think is very pervasive and very of course is the churchs role with contraception. Weve seen the pope make statements about contraception, particularly in central and south america with the Current Issues of the zika virus, but we dont see him talking more broadly about how familiess should be treating contraception. Is that still the churchs doctrine . Are we goingn to remain in that vein . Or are we going to have a more fluid concept of when contraception is appropriate and not. But i think he at least touched on it somewhat when talking about the importance of Sex Education and that that was an important aspect of child development, but i think he could have gone a step further in helping catholics, helpingng everyday catholics understand exactly what the role of contraception is going to be in our Community Going forward. Woodruff Gloria Purviss what about the language or the missing language on contraception . I think it was there when he was talking about that each child is to be welcomed and that the mother can dream about the child. What id like the say, what i would have liked to have seen, and we talked about structures of sin, is the consideration that perhaps how society is set up to make the male the model of perfection and thats so contrary to us as women, which is why we think our fertility or motherhood is the enemy of progress. Thats how high society is set up. Id like to see us challenge that setup because i think theres nothing defective abouta women. Theres nothing detective in our fertility, but society is defective in our view of us. Woodruff how would you like to see him change that . I would like to see him specifically say, women, you are not defective because of your ability to bear children, and, in fact, Society Needs to make more places available for you in respect of that awesome gift that you have. If the economy exists to serve the human person, so much so that the economy exists to serve the human family, and we need to make sure women can participate in that economy. Woodruff marianne duddyburke, what practical effect do you think this is going to have . We spoke about the role of individual priests in interpreting this and being more compassionate. How do you think priests are going to look at this . Well, i think this has really farranging impact places in the church and at the level of policy all across the globe. Certainly in the area of pastoral care, i hope that it will lead to less dogmaticti interaction with people across s the board. I hope that, you know, theres more of a sense that the church is first and foremost here to help care for people and help us care for each other and that that really needs to be the starting point. I think there is a lot of that kind of language there. I think that we really have to see what the response is going to be certainly at the level of the bishops and cardinals, because that trickles down to what happens in the everyday lives of where people encounterr the church in its pastors and in each other. And that comes from the peoplele of the Church Giving it to one another. Woodruff right. Souf that level, i think the responsiveness has often been there. Mostly been there. Really at the level of the hierarchy where we start struggling more with rigidity. Woodruff amanda junema gargus, let me pick up on that point. How much do you thinkpo is going the change either in the teaching, the decisionmaking by priests, by bishops, but individual catholics . As a result of this . Id like to hope that theres going to be some change, but that priests are going to start using this as a divide for how to deal with married and divorced cathocs especially,ia since that was a huge part of the popes message. I think youre going to see a lot of more liberal priests using this as an opportunity to advance their feelings on it. Theyre going to see this as an okay to go forward. But i think those everyday catholics, the ones who arent in the middle easthood, i think this should be the point where we see our role as evangelicals, as part of the clergy of christ as it were, to love our neighbor and to make sure that we are protecting the family, that were guiding the family, that were loving the family, but were also loving those who may not conform to our particular ideas about the family, and were showing the love of christ in that environment, as well. Woodruff and Gloria Purvis, what do you see changing as a result of this . Well, i think really its a challenge to the priests. It is an awesome responsibility to walk with the sheep, if you will, and to keep us on the straight path. I dont like the terms liberal or conservative. I like the term the truth. What is the truth of what im teaching . It is not compassionate to make people feel comfortable. I think the pope is calling on the priests to walk with each of the sheep wherever they are and help us to grow in holiness, which means properly forming our conscience and being willing to listen. The priest will have to be a bride of christ and deal with the mother of some very troubled children. Woodruff well, we thank all three of you for helping us look through, think through what it is that the pope has said in this important statement. Gloria purvis, thank you. Amanda june gargus and marianne duddyburke, we appreciate it. Thank you. Woodruff next, alabamas prison system at a breakingis point. The state currently packs more than 24,000 inmates into a system designed to house about half that number. Jeffrey brown looks inside the most overcrowded prison system in the nation, as part of our ongoing series, broken justice, about new approaches to criminal justice. Brown the william c. Holman maximum security prison in atmore, alabama loud, crowded, and when we visited just weeks after a riot broke out here, still in partial lockdown. On march 11, with just 17 guards overseeing more than 900 prisoners, a fight broke outt between two inmates. An officer trying to break it up was stabbed, as was the warden. Video uploaded to facebook by an inmate using a smuggled cell phone captured some of the mayhem. And it took the prisons Rapid Response emergency squads to re establish order. As shocking as the events here at the holman correctionalti facility on march 11 were, perhaps the most shocking thingk is that no one we spoke to was surprised by what happened. Unfortunately i think things like that will continue. Thats why i think its essential that we solve this problem. That we solve it once and for all. Brown we joined Alabama Governor Robert Bentley as he toured Julia Tutwiler prison, a maximum security facility for women outside montgomery. The u. S. Department of justice sued tutwiler in 2014, citing corruption, Sexual Assault and harassment of inmates by staff, just one of a number of lawsuits accusing the alabama Corrections System of violating inmates rights. The violence, the overcrowding and the federal measures have pushed the solidly republican State Government into action a penal reform bill passed last year by an overwhelming majority in the republicancontrolled legislature, and signed into law by the republican governor. In alabama, just like in a lot of states, it was a three strikes and youre outtypeyp thing. And so our prison population has just dramatically increased ovea the last 20 years. So we need to look at that. We need to look at a different approach. And thats what were doing in the state with our prison reforo bill. Brown republican state senator cam ward spearheaded the legislative effort. It took many years to get into this mess; its going to take as many years to get out. It was easy to get votes by saying im going to be tough ob crime. Its a lot harder to say im going to maintain a healthy, constitutional system. Doesnt quite fit on the Bumper Sticker the same way the first slogan did. Brown among other things, the new law, which just went into effect in january, creates a new class of felonies for lown level drug and property crimes that keeps offenders out of state prisons. Alabama was the only state that considered all forms of property