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The abuse of children is like a leprosy and the pope said the church must deal with the problem with the, quote, the severity it demands. joe? >> i was going to willie geist. you talk about this guy just keeps going there. now the vatican is pushing back on comments that the pope makes. >> yeah. it's pretty remarkable. he had victims of abuse in the church to the vatican which was a big step recently as well. a lot of people accuse the previous pope and the one before that being asleep at the switch on this issue. this pope is going out of his way to make sure that people know. by the way, peo...

Someone is made a saint, with he say this person lived a life of extraordinarily christian heroic virtue but not that this person is without sin. we are all with sin. we believe, i'm a practicing catholic myself, and i'm trying to get it right and i'm going to fall down and i'm not going to get it right. so all saints are by definition sinners because they are human but they recognize something greater. however, we have to say that being a pope is a pretty unique job description, and though lots of people are saints who are craftsmen, who are carpenters, who are kings, who are queens, who are ...

Governor of the state or president of the united states. at the end of the day nat to what's get to to be done. >> what happened to ken langone. >> i have not changed. >> are you the same guy who joe biden ripped? >> go ahead. >> a billion area founder of home depot predicted the pope, pope francis, critique of income inequity will be a hurdle for, quote, very catholic donors who seem to think hurt feelings trump the teachings of the bible. as a practicing catholic, bless me, father, for he has sinned. and -- come on. come on. >> what did you think of that? >> there wasn't one bit of truth. wh...

Christian on active duty. we wear it around dog tags. many of the rules are in place. for example, as a practicing catholic, if i went to ash wednesday and i had the ashes put upon my forehead, i always took them off when i went back to the workplace. this rule would allow me to keep them on my forehead. there are many things you're allowed to do, many christians have claimed they have been persecuted, they can understand now, this allows them to practice on holy days to the services they want to go to, as long as it doesn't affect mission readiness. if anything affects mission readiness, it s...

Have to go. you can skip it. that's my point. >> christmas is really about the kids. do you think this billboard, kids walking through times square and seeing that, do you think that's good for kids? >> kids don't care about it, either. they care about presidents, they care about spending time with family and friends, they care about cocoa, they care about a number of things. it's not about god. >> i vehemently disagree with you. i'm a practicing catholic that wants my son to care about those things and i hope he does. >> you can hope that, but frankly it's his choice. there are children of ca...