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members. but i think really the most -- first of all, alex, this meeting was expected. we didn't know when it was going to happen but we always expected that somewhere along this trip in the u.s. that the pope would meet with sexual abuse victims just because of what the impact of the scandal had been on the catholic church and the still resounding effects of that scandal. he really has two audiences here to three audiences, i think, today as he held that meeting. first, the most important audience were those five people there who he spoke to and listened to as he said taking their stories into his heart. that's a very important audience. the next audience is to his fellow priests to say, you know, i understand the pain you have been through, i understand that you bear the burden of shame for what some of your brother priests have done, but then the third audience is is to the larger church and that's where
loving god and with hope that today will begin a new spirit in our city and in our church. we owe a huge debt to mayor nutter, governor wolf, former governor corbett, archbishop palia and his staff and all the generous city, state and federal workers who helped us make this event even possible. a special thanks to all of the wonderful donors, sponsors, world meeting co-chairs, staff and volunteers who worked tirelessly to bring this celebration to flew igs. fruition. thanks to all my brother priests and bishops, religious and all who traveled and sacrificed to
gratitude, with confidence in each other as children of a loving god and with hope that today will begin a new spirit in our city and in our church. we owe a huge debt to mayor nutter, governor wolf, former governor corbitt, archbishop palat and his staff and all the state and government workers who helped make this event possible. a special thanks to all of the wonderful donors, sponsors, co-chairs, staff and volunteers who worked tirelessly to bring this celebration too fruition. [ applause ] thanks to all my brother priests
>> your holy, my eminent brother candors, brother bishops, brother priests and deacons, and friends and jesus christ, philadelphia has waited a long time for this moment, and by philadelphia, i mean, not just catholics, but christians from every tradition, a vibrant and generous jewish community, our mayor and our governor, and business leaders who have given us wonderful support and people of goodwill from every walk of life. this is a city that would change its name to francisville today [ applause ] we would do that if we could do
our cnn vatican correspondent. bishop, in terms of what you heard from this pope this morning, how did he sound to you? >> well, he sounded strong. but also, i think once again, he sounded the general themes, the general encouragement. without getting down into policy. that's, i think, what you're going to see over the next few days, that he's going to encourage us to a particular kind of themes of justice, themes of the environment, themes of immigration. and then allow -- will not get deep down mining into policy issues because that's where the weeds are. >> he's going to also be meeting with bishops later today. >> yeah, and i have no idea what he's going to say at this point, but from what i've heard and from other visits to bishops around the world, he's going to be both encouraging and challenging. that he's going to encourage us as brother priests, as brother bishops but also challenge us to particular things as our chief pastor. >> delia gallagher, you've heard this pope speak a lot.
care of my priests. the priests are also saying where's the justice for us? the statute of limitations are put in for the purposes of justice. you know, that after time, people's memories aren't quite as clear. you can't get the proper witnesses. sometimes you can't quite get through the maze of history, the mist of history. and so there is a reason why, in terms of jurisprudence, we have a statute of limitations. so when you begin to kind of set it aside for only this kind of crime or only this group of people, is that really fair? and aren't priests allowed and others who are charged in these things in terms of ecclesial crimes? on the other hand as a bishop, i want to reach out to the victims as well and be fair to them and to recognize the kind of justice that may be coming -- that may be necessary for them. so it's a hard balancing act for any of us. >> i don't know whether any of you came across, but there was a rather -- you know, quite a shocking report in "global post" about how some of the priests against whom these allegations