Italy Pope - Pope tells religious leaders religion can never justify violence
NAME: ITA POPE 20071021Ixx TAPE: EF07/1264 IN_TIME: 10:13:06:05 DURATION: 00:01:35:12 SOURCES: VATICAN TV DATELINE: Naples - 21 Oct 2007 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1. Pope at Capodimonte seminary with religious leaders 2. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Pope Benedict XVI (overlaid with cutaways of political and religious leaders listening) "Respecting the faith of the different religions, we all were called on to work for peace and reconciliation among peoples. This is the authentic spirit of Assisi, which is against all forms of violence and against the abuse of religions as an opportunity for violence. In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become a vehicle of hatred, it can never be used in God's name to justify violence. On the contrary, religions can and must offer precious resources to build a peaceful humanity, because they speak about peace in the heart of man." 3. Pope with religious leaders STORYLINE Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday told ayatollahs, rabbis, priests and patriarchs from around the world that religion must never be used to justify violence. The pontiff issued the appeal for faith to be an instrument of peace in the Italian city of Naples. The pope told the leaders - Jews, Muslims, Christians and Buddhists alike - that they must work for peace and reconciliation among peoples. "In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become a vehicle of hatred, it can never be used in God's name to justify violence," he said. "On the contrary, religions can and must offer precious resources to build a peaceful humanity, because they speak about peace in the heart of man," he went on. While the pope's message was universal, it had particular resonance in Naples, which has long been one of Italy's most violent cities. The city is home of the notorious Camorra organised crime syndicate - the local version of the Sicilian Mafia. Besides petty crime, it has been wracked by Camorra turf battles over drug and arms trafficking, prostitution rackets and other lucrative activities. Naples has for years had the highest murder rate of all major Italian cities, although it slipped to second place after Bari in 2006, registering 3.3 reported homicides per 100-thousand inhabitants, Interior Ministry statistics show. Naples' surrounding Campania region has for years also topped the charts for robberies and car thefts. Last year, there were calls for the army to be sent in after nine people were killed in Naples in two weeks. The three-day meeting of religious leaders from around the world is focused on the role of religion and culture in creating a violence-free world. The religious leaders who met the pope included Din Syamsuddin, chairman of Muhammadiyah, the second largest Islamic organisation in Indonesia, and Ayatollah Sayed Mousavi Bojnourdi, head of an Islamic study centre in Iran. Other religious leaders included one of Israel's chief rabbis, Yona Metzger; Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians; the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams; the head of the World Council of Churches, the Reverend Samuel Kobia; and Buddhist, Shinto, Hindu and Zoroastrian representatives. They were gathered for the 21st annual peace meeting sponsored by Sant'Egidio Community, a Rome-based lay Catholic organisation. Pope John Paul II hosted the first such meeting in the hilltop town of Assisi, birthplace of peace-loving St. Francis, in 1986.
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Selma March, The - Troops Guard Rights Marchers
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Refugee woman standing behind a fence
Refugee woman standing behind a fence
1986 Gang Mural
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CIVIL RIGHTS
Dugger asks Silver to explain why he feels Mississippi is nearly a police state and is what Silver calls a "closed society". Silver explains why he came to this conclusion - he talks about how Mississippi does not participate in Society itself, and the majority of Whites agree on what he calls "the official orthodoxy" which in 1850's was slavery and which today is "White Supremacy". This is backed up by fundamentalism and religion. He states that the citizens that don't go along with this are told to keep quiet and if they don't keep quiet they are threatened, run out of the state, and/or suffer violence.
News Clip: Churches/Violence
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
( GANPATI PROCESSION IN BOMBAY )
Unissued / unused material - location and date unclear or unknown. <br/> <br/>Bombay, India. <br/> <br/>A Hindu religious festival - the Ganpati Procession. <br/> <br/>Good General pan shot of North Bombay taken from Malabar hill. MS Indians gathering and greeting friends at the foot of the Hindu temple in the centre of the city. Pan up to top of the temple. CU a sacred cow eating in the street. MS the procession of decorated lorries and Indians on foot, with umbrellas up, passing through the streets. LS Back view of natives clad only in loin cloths, balancing idols on their heads, marching down to the sea at Chowpatty beach to immerse the idols in the water. VS of police stopping people and checking them for weapons - presumably worried about Communal violence. MS a decorated lorry bearing an effigy on it of Subhas Chandra Bose making its way through crowds on the beach. VS Police stopping lorries cyclists etc., as crossroads and searching them for weapons. More shots of parades - many lorries carry effigies of the good Ganesh. More shots of parade at beach. <br/> <br/>(Cuts from 46/101)
Black Caucus / Gun Control Laws (1999)
Congressional Black Caucus members talked about the need for stricter gun control laws.
STATUE OF GHANDI - SINGAPORE
A statue of Mahatma Ghandi honors India's spiritual leader.
AA: COMPROMISING RELIGION IN SCHOOLS
COVERAGE IN DENVER, COLORADO FOR A PEGGY WEHMEYER CS VO FOR THE AMERICAN AGENDA ABOUT COMPROMISING RELIGION IN SCHOOLS. 04:01:00 INTV W/ UNIDENTIFIED MOTHER OF SIX CHILDREN, INCLUDING A GAY SON, ATTENDING A PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION (PTA) CONFERENCE ABOUT WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO PASS A RESOLUTION PROMOTING ACCESS TO INFORMATION ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY, BISEXUALITY AND TRANSEXUALITY AND OPPOSING DISCRIMINATION, VIOLENCE AND HARASSMENT AGAINST YOUTH PRESUMED TO BE GAY. 04:18:31 TWO SHOT OVER WEHMEYER'S LEFT SHOULDER AS MOTHER LISTENS.
1500s Battle Scene
b&w - Silent Feature Film - 1500s - 16th Century France - Battle Scene - soldiers storm castle walls and massacre everyone in their path - soldier attacks woman - scared - fear - terror - France - French Wars of Religion - Catholic violence against Huguenots - French Calvinist Protestants - Depiction of St. Bartholomew's Day massacre - Catherine de' Medici of Italy - Europe - European Reformation - Intolerance (1916) - Directed by D.W. Griffith - Early Cinema History
TV TALK SHOWS
Studio interview resumes David Susskind Yes, sir, your question, Audience Question Mr. Susskind the problem of pornography if there is one is a very vast one. I don't think we can cover it here tonight. But I'd like to ask a two pointed question to both of our speakers here. Mr. Vidal. First of all, do you have a definition of pornography? Gore Vidal I can only go by what the courts tell us? Well, I would Audience Question No, I want your own opinion, the way you well. Gore Vidal Is it to be used in a pejorative sense? Or is it to be used just as a term? I would say that there is certain kinds of writing which is written more or less with the intention of creating sexual stimulation? Audience Question Is it bad stimulation or good? Gore Vidal I find it absolutely indifferent people are stimulated a great deal of the time anyway. Yeah. And if this affects them one way or the other, I don't see anything bad in it. No, Audience Question well, Mr. Vidal, you stated before that you see no evidence, there is no evidence, I think you said that pornography is bad or deleterious to human growth.I'm a behavioral scientist. I'm not interested in a lot of your humor and your flippancy here tonight, you're very gifted with words. And you're making an ad hominem argument. You keep bringing religion in, I don't see where this Gore Vidal The whole basis, Audience Question can I stop you?This is not what this is not what I what a scientist should do. Now, I feel that you should address yourself to the problem without bringing in religion, be it? Gore Vidal One minute, I appreciate you. Do you mind it before you continue one second, then you can you can continue your gravity? Audience Question Wait a minute hold it? Gore Vidal I bring in religion because our sexual codes come from the law of Moses and from St. Paul, do you know you are not going to make any sense about what is the correct sexual behavior until you examine the religious origin of it? And and don't pretend you're behaviorism as any sort of science use did you stay to Christian Heresy. Audience Question Well, you're tearing a lot of things down tonight. You might as well do that, too. I'm a scientist. And I'm trying to be very objective, you say that there is no evidence for the fact that pornography, whatever that is, you can't define it. We just can't define it that which causes like you have evidence to show that this is deleterious to human growth. Now, where is the evidence? Gore Vidal There was no evidence, you're just saying what I've said. Audience Question Are there studies to show that this is not deleterious? Gore Vidal There are there have been studies going on? Oh, my lifetime on the subject. Audience Question Would you quote me one? Gore Vidal Oh, there's a marvelous one of Warfield about 1948. Audience Question Who is Warfield, Gore Vidal William M. Warfield, you should check up on him if you're a behaviorist. Audience Question Well, who is he? Gore Vidal Well, he is. He is a professor who is I think he is dead now. master's violence is discipline was psychology using? Yes. And he has now dead and I suggest you read it very carefully. But I don't know. First of all, don't proudly say you're an objective scientist. When you've come on with so many emotion charged world, Audience Question you've done a bit of that yourself Gore Vidal And so I don't claim to be a scientist. I'm an artist. Audience Question Well, you're an artist. But maybe I'm just as human as you are. Oh, what I'd like to know is Gore Vidal welcome to The Club. Audience Question you're very good at this. This is a red herring. There are studies to show that children pre school children exposed to violence on television will repeat this type of behavior to people around them. These studies have been shown at Stanford I'd like to ask you for equal evidence. Now you're going back I don't know how many decades to this study, which I, Warfield it sounds like a singer to me. I don't know who you're referring to do you have anything else that you can refer to? Gore Vidal Well, I keep reading about the subject, as do you through the popular press and Time Magazine, which keeps us all up to date on every discipline. You are quietly muddling the issue and most of the illogical way we started first on sex, then you move to violence now, not quite right. And we have agreed earlier, the good father and I that that that much of what's in the air now does create an atmosphere of violence, which is extremely deleterious to the growth of young children and to their attitudes towards one another. Audience Question can I ask for the hill? What do you feel, sir, can be done by way of a scientific study, which would examine the content, the distribution and the outcome of these materials you call pornographic? Father Morton Hill That's a good question, Doctor. Course The study would take a lot of money. If I had $250,000 to spend on a study, the way I would spend, it would be this I spent $50,000. To investigate the fourfold incitement of pornography, to drugs to violence, to prevention, to promiscuity, I designed for researchers, four separate persons, each one to take the production of pornography over one calendar month, and study the incitement, just the incitement to drugs in this month, just the incitement to violence so that we could present this graphically, graphically to an audience as this, that would be project number 1 $50,000. Number two, I would use $100,000 to take several cities in the United States like Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and perhaps Dallas, for large cities and for different areas, and examine the production and distribution of obscene material and ask one question, to whom is this directed? How many children does this reach what reaches them and how many are reached by this material that is material in all media? This would be a study that would go say about six months. Now, the third study that I would make would be into effects, I would go to the youth of the United States and ask them how media is affecting them, the entertainment media, what are the outstanding films that they have seen that have helped them with good effects? And what all those good effects? Also? What are the things that have hurt them? What magazine has hurt them what the movie has hurtthem? And ask them for these effects, then I would collate that data. Now I'd have that study done by, say six or eight behavioral scientists over a period of six months. The three studies together I think we present presentation, Audience Question He's doing it again, Audience Question Mr. Vidal this research design where you are proposing, Mr. Vidal, do you have anything objective in the form of a scientific reseach project that we can work with? Do you have anything that you can work with? Gore Vidal I would like he wants to raise $250,000 to give you boys some employment, I'd like to raise 500,000 to examine the psyche of sensors. And I would start with behaviors in Greece. David Susskind Mr. Well, you've had ample time. Really, please. Father, I want to ask you a question. If the first section for which you've allocated $50,000 And the good men of science have finished their work. And it turns out that 95% of the young people studied the immediate after effect, in 95% of the cases of pornography was sexual stimulation, which immediate result was masturbation. Would you say well, that's not too bad considering overall statistics. 95% just went somewhere privately and please themselves, would you continue to be disturbed? I mean, do you think you're a little bit better is still necessary? Father Morton Hill well this is a gratuitous assumption David Susskind It is not a gratuitous assumption, Father Morton Hill I suppose. Now we do a study and 95% of the youngsters who read this particular confession magazine say that there was a bad effect and that this bad effect was simply and only exclusively masturbation. David Susskind Because this is what happened to me. Yeah. Okay. Now, how would you feel about that? Father Morton Hill Would I feel that this should David Susskind would your vigilante committee still be a Father Morton Hill What do you mean by vigilante committee Gore Vidal read your modest committee but I do answer David Susskind to the graduate you know, the kind of thing I mean, when I say vigilante committee that brings pressure on on various units of our society, yeah, to withdraw things or to prohibit things. Gore Vidal Would you prohibit something which led into a solidarity action which does not anti social. Father Morton Hill Well, as I said before you and I differ in this respect that you are a secularist, and I am a theist, you don't believe in divine law? And I do all right now Divine Law is involved here am I? Am I to countenance something which stimulates youngsters to violate that the law of God? Of course not. How could I? Alright, now you're asking me as a person, what our organization to this viewpoint? I don't know, I'd have to propose it to him. Gore Vidal It's an interesting area, because by and large reading is a solitary act, and any consequence of it is apt to be fairly immediate. And that's that well, so if you cannot prove that people make anti social acts, then I think you are in a very peculiar ground wanting to censor other secularists because there's many of us, perhaps more than they are of you theiests Father Morton Hill this hypothesis is purely an hypothesis because I am certain that there would be other effects because I know these teenagers are sex publications, and I know what they inclined to they there is a fourfold incitement not simply to sex, but to drugs, to violence and to perversion. Gore Vidal Well, I think it's a good writer who can get all four in. David Susskind We're running out of time. Can I ask you a final question? If in my day, there was spicy detective, and there were French postcards, and there were some dirty books. And there was true confessions that we had a variety of iterations. And we have goofed in civilization badly as all eternity will discover, but not on the level of having been oversexed or driven to violence because we read to confessions, isn't the business of the parent as it was my parents business to take care of the household and not the business of your institution and similar ones? Aren't they invariably, when not ridiculous, quite evil? Father Morton Hill Well, as I explained before, on this program, from talking to parents, David, they are the last to know that they youngsters are involved either with pornography or with narcotics David Susskind I know, Father, I know what's being read in my house. I don't approve of it all Father Morton Hill in your house. What about outside your house? Gore Vidal How much reading all those children doing, David? It's my impression, they don't read anything. David Susskind No, they do some reading. And what they read outside the house, of course, I'm not totally familiar and other I can gather from the exposure of their individual psyches around the table and in the house, that they are not afflicted with a terrible pornographic virus. Gore Vidal Anyway, I think the father has made the good point that the parents don't know and we should probably hand this over to the police. Because they'll know. David Susskind Father, do you have a final thing? Father Morton Hill No, except that I don't understand this last. This last comment of yours. Gore Vidal Any pressure group which tries to get the secular arm to respond to its own private views of morality, sooner or later invokes the police invoke censorship limits freedom of speech, and you have a handsome country like Franco Spain, or a good 12th century society which I'm not about to see recreated here and are beautiful west Father Morton Hill Well my only answer to that Mr. Vidal was that apparently you don't believe in law. Obscenity law is law just as much as any other area Gore Vidal we have both got finished saying that the Supreme Court is extremely ambiguous on this subject. Nobody knows what the law of obscenity is. So don't say that I'm against law just before the just before the program ends. We all just a critical tactic. I do indeed. Believe in law. Careful on that one. David Susskind Gentlemen, I'm sorry. We have reached the end of our time father Hill Gore Vidal Thank you. Stick around. There's more show
News Clip: Witnesses avoid "social issues"
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter James Kerr about the Jehovah's Witnesses Watchtower convention at Market Hall in Dallas. Kerr interviews Grant Suiter, the Keynote speaker and secretary-treasurer of the Pennsylvania and New York Watchtower bible and tract societies. The majority of this interview is silent. The footage concludes with Suiter responding to Kerr's question about violence with a discussion of Armageddon. This footage is referenced by the script, "Jehovah's Witnesses," which has not yet been digitized.
WRESTLING PARSON
Moulton Chapel, Spalding, Lincolnshire. <br/> <br/>Great wrestling story. <br/> <br/>Two men wrestle in the open air. Narrator pretends to be shocked "whatever would the vicar say?" he asks. Just then the vicar turns up on his horse and shows the wrestlers where they are going wrong. Vicar Reginald Thompson is 59 years old but this doesn't stop him from "giving a show of muscular Christianity" quips the narrator. Great stuff of the vicar wrestling with great sound effects of groans and flesh hitting the floor. Wrestlers are Jack Taylor and Lazlo Bajko. <br/> <br/>People grouped around enjoy the spectacle. The Vicar's favourite hymn is "Fight the Good Fight" of course. He leads his horse to the pub where he is given two pints of beer, one of which he gives to his horse Flossie. The horse drinks the beer. <br/> <br/>The vicar is seen refereeing a wrestling match in a Leicester wrestling venue. Lots of great shots of bloodthirsty middle aged women getting into the violence. Various shots of the match which is between Raymond Clayton of Accrington and Ken "Killer" Davies of Cardiff. The vicar takes off his "dog collar" for the second round. "It's a vicar's duty to mingle with sinners and try to turn them from their wicked ways" says the narrator. Funny stuff in the ring and more screaming women. <br/> <br/>Note: nice letter from Rev. Thompson on file. As usual with wrestling items the Pathe sound man has excelled himself with funny sound effects. Great bit in the cameraman's notes about the wrestling bout in Leicester. Apparently "Killer" Ken Davies of Cardiff was disqualified for an unprovoked attack on the ref - "in this case the vicar"! <br/> <br/>Cuts exist - see separate record.
Pallbearers At Susan Campbell Funeral
Pallbearers carry the casket of murder victim Susan Campbell and place it into a hearse.
HILLARY CLINTON / VAWA (2000)
Joined by members of the law enforcement community and Administration officials, Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling for reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
Focus: [broadcast of 13 December 2023]
BILLY GRAHAM INTERVIEW
ORIG. COLOR 200 SOF. MAG. INTERVIEW EVANGELIST BILLY GRAHAM IN JAPANESE GARDEN - SAYS JAPANS RELIGION IS BASICALLY MATERIALISTIC. SAYS THE JAPANESE RELIGIONS SUCH AS BUDDISM, ETC. ARE MORE PHILOSOPHIES THAT RELIGIOUS. SAYS THOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO BELIEVE - SAYS VIOLENCE IN AMERICA IS CAUSED BY A DEPARTURE FROM BELIEF IN CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES AND IDEALS. CI: PERSONALITIES - GRAHAM, BILLY.