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Table, bibi netanyahu and mahmoud abbas, and secretary of state john kerry who worked hard to get this far. and of course to the president behind the big push, barack obama. blessed are the peacemakers. and that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. tonight on "all in" workers are walking out at major fast food chains in multiple states. there is a real movement to increase wages across the country, and those workers are here tonight. also, it turns out the new pope says gay priests are fine ...

1890s, john paul ii called unions indispensable. what's different about pope francis and what's exciting for progressive catholics like me is that he's standing on the side of the poor and he's wearing sensible shoes to stand in. he's walking the walk. and you know, he said he wants a poor church for the poor and i think that progressive catholics like myself would add we want a just church for justice seekers. we're excited that he's looking at justice in the world and speaking out so passionately and fervently about it. we're hoping that he looks at justice within our church, too. >> there a...

So he can't change any of the substance, but, boy, can he ever change the way that's presented? i think he's shrewd enough to say, you know what? i love the traditional teachings of the church. i'm as loyal to them as the day is long. i'm also recognizing that a lot of them aren't going over. now, i can't change them. i don't want to change them. they come to us from the lord as part of revelation. we better work on a more tantalizing attractive, compelling way to present them. i think he'll do that brilliantly. >> pope francis works with the press for the first time and we'll be interest inte...

Now we don't trust each other very much across these divides and that's creating real problems for our country and for those of you who are catholic for our church. >> a lot of american catholics are progressive. they're for married priests, women priests, gay marriage. it was really interesting, though, when we started talking about benedict stepping down, i had kate childs graham stepping down. she's gay. she's active in progressive catholic groups. and i asked her if people asked her why she's catholic. here is what she told me. >> i say that this church is as much my church as it is pope b...

>> the cardinals that will be making these decisions are conservatives, in that they were very concerned about the secularization of european culture, but their answer to that was ratzinger. i don't think this should be a presumption that they're going to move in a more liberal modern direction just because of these demographic shifts that you're talking about. >> e.j. brshgs we let you go, why is there not more of a constituent outcry in terms of these politics? i mean, i think it's almost painful to catholics when you talk about, as karen said, berkeley catholics, progressive catholics. i ha...