Scalia's Son Leads Funeral Mass in DC
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was remembered Saturday as a man who loved God, country and family at a funeral Mass capping two days of mourning for a jurist who left a long and sometimes controversial legacy on the nation.
Scalia's son Paul - a Catholic priest - led the service and mixed humor and reverence for the conservative icon and father of nine who died unexpectedly last weekend.
Sure he forgot our names at times or mixed them up, but there are nine of us, Scalia told thousands of mourners at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
He loved us and sought to show that love and sought to share the blessing of the faith he treasured, Scalia said.
Dignitaries including Vice President Joe Biden, former Vice President Dick Cheney, members of Congress and all eight sitting justices of the Supreme Court were among those attending. Four of the five Catholic justices took communion.
Scalia's flag-draped casket arrived at the basilica after he lay in repose at the Supreme Court on Friday, where thousands of visitors came to honor one of the country's most influential conservative voices. Scalia's sons and sons-in-law served as pallbearers to carry his flag-draped casket up the steps of the basilica.
Leonard Leo, executive director of the Federalist Society, read a passage from the Old Testament's Book of Wisdom. The society is a conservative legal group.
Justice Clarence Thomas read a passage from the New Testament's Book of Romans.
Several federal judges who are considered possible replacements for Scalia also attended the funeral Mass, including Judges Sri Srinivasan and Patricia Millett and Chief Judge Merrick Garland, all of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
President Barack Obama did not attend Saturday's funeral Mass, despite criticism from some Republicans. He and first lady Michelle Obama were among the more than 6,000 people who paid tribute to Scalia at the Supreme Court on Friday. Scalia's flag-draped casket rested on a funeral bier that first held President Abraham Lincoln's casket after his assassination.
Scalia, 79, died last weekend at a remote Texas ranch after spending nearly three decades on the high court. Burial plans have not been announced.
GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz interrupted his campaign ahead of Saturday's South Carolina primary to attend the Mass. The Texas senator has been among those urging the Senate not to consider replacing Scalia until after the November election. Obama has insisted that he will nominate a successor.
Washington's archbishop Cardinal Donald Wuerl delivered opening remarks at the service.
Three popes have visited the basilica: Pope John Paul II in 1979, Pope Benedict XVI in 2008 and Pope Francis last year.
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4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Karen Terry, Principal Investigator, Research Team:
The core findings of the study are that they had 4,392 priests and deacons with allegations of sexual abuse, 10,667 people who made allegations against priests or deacons, and a payment of 572-million, and that does not include approximately 14 percent of diocese who have cases still pending or who were not able to give us a final sum.
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Dioceses and orders simply did not screen candidates for the priesthood properly. As a result we found that many dysfunctional and psycho-sexually immature men were admitted into seminaries and orders ordained in the priesthood.
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On behalf of the Bishops and the entire church in the United States, I restate and reaffirm our apologies to all of you who have been harmed by those among us who violated your trust and the promises they made at their ordination.
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13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bishop Wilton Gregory/President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
I can say with absolute assurance that the bishops now have in place the means of responding immediately to allegations, assisting victims and removing offenders from ministry. The terrible history recorded here today is history.
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16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Steve Krueger/Voice of the Faithful
We won''''''''''''''''t turn the corner until problems acknowledged and leaders held responsible. This is not a question of forgiveness, it is a question of accountability.
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17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Art Andrews/SNAP
Really what''''''''''''''''s significant in today''''''''''''''''s self report is not what''''''''''''''''s being said, but what''''''''''''''''s not being said. Catholic parents need to know who these sex offenders are, that''''''''''''''''s the information that the bishops have which is most important. Who they are, which parishes and schools they''''''''''''''''ve been in and where they are right now. And we''''''''''''''''re leaving today without that information and that''''''''''''''''s not going to make the church safer.
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A panel of prominent Roman Catholics rebuked US bishops on Friday for failing to stop widespread clerical sex abuse over the last half-century, calling the leaders'''''''''''''''' performance shameful to the church.
The comments came as the National Review Board, a watchdog panel formed by the bishops, issued two highly anticipated studies documenting the molestation problem from 1950 to 2002.
One report - the first church-sanctioned tally of abuse cases - found there have been 10-thousand-667 abuse claims over those 52 years.
More than 80 percent of the alleged victims were male and over half said that they were between the ages of 11 and 14 when they were assaulted.
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00:18:12 1.4 Recent history
00:20:29 2 Geography
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00:29:19 3.1 Religion
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00:32:32 4.1 Downtown revitalization
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00:56:28 8 Government
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Columbia is the capital and second largest city of the U.S. state of South Carolina, with a population estimate of 134,309 as of 2016. The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, and a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County. It is the center of the Columbia metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 767,598 as of the 2010 United States Census, growing to 817,488 by July 1, 2016, according to 2015 U.S. Census estimates. The name Columbia is a poetic term used for the United States, originating from the name of Christopher Columbus.
The city is located approximately 13 miles (21 km) northwest of the geographic center of South Carolina, and is the primary city of the Midlands region of the state. It lies at the confluence of the Saluda River and the Broad River, which merge at Columbia to form the Congaree River. Columbia is home to the University of South Carolina, the state's flagship university and the largest in the state, and is also the site of Fort Jackson, the largest United States Army installation for Basic Combat Training. Columbia is also located 20 miles west of the site of McEntire Joint National Guard Base, which is operated by the U.S. Air Force and is used as a training base for the 169th Fighter Wing of The South Carolina Air National Guard. Columbia is also the location of the South Carolina State House, which is the center of government for the state. In 1860, the city was the location of the South Carolina Secession Convention, which marked the departure of the first state from the Union in the events leading up to the Civil War.
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00:04:33 1.3 20th century
00:06:09 1.4 21st century
00:06:42 2 Demographics
00:06:52 2.1 Population by state
00:10:13 2.2 Biggest communities
00:14:32 2.3 Communities by percentage of people of Greek ancestry
00:17:49 2.4 Communities by percentage of those born in Greece
00:18:05 2.5 Greek-born population
00:18:18 3 Atlantis newspaper
00:19:07 4 In popular culture
00:22:33 5 Greek nationality
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Greek Americans (Greek: Ελληνοαμερικανοί, Ellinoamerikanoi) are Americans of full or partial Greek ancestry. About 1.3 million Americans are of Greek descent, although there are estimates that raise this number to 3 million, and 321,144 people older than five spoke Greek at home in 2010.Greek Americans have the highest concentrations in the New York City, Boston, and Chicago regions, but have settled in major metropolitan areas across the United States. In 2000, Tarpon Springs, Florida was home to the highest per capita representation of Greek Americans in the country (11%). The United States is home to the largest Greek community outside of Greece, ahead of Australia, Cyprus, Albania, Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
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Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans (Spanish: Estadounidenses hispanos, pronounced [isˈpanos]) are people in the United States who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. The United States has the largest population of Latinos and Hispanics outside of Latin America. More generally, it includes all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino, whether of full or partial ancestry. For the 2010 United States Census, people counted as Hispanic or Latino were those who identified as one of the specific Hispanic or Latino categories listed on the census questionnaire (Mexican, Puerto Rican or Cuban) as well as those who indicated that they were other Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino. The national origins classified as Hispanic or Latino by the United States Census Bureau are the following: Argentine, Cuban, Colombian, Puerto Rican, Spaniards, Dominican, Mexican, Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Honduran, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Salvadoran, Bolivian, Spanish, Chilean, Ecuadorian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Uruguayan, and Venezuelan. Other U.S. government agencies have slightly different definitions of the term, including Brazilians and other Portuguese-speaking groups. The Census Bureau uses the terms Hispanic and Latino interchangeably.Origin can be viewed as the ancestry, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth of the person or the person's parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States. People who identify as Spanish, Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. As the only specifically designated category of ethnicity in the United States (other than non-Hispanic/Latino), Hispanics form a pan-ethnicity incorporating a diversity of inter-related cultural and linguistic heritages. Most Hispanic Americans are of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Salvadoran, Dominican, Guatemalan, or Colombian origin. The predominant origin of regional Hispanic populations varies widely in different locations across the country.Hispanic Americans are the second fastest-growing ethnic group by percentage growth in the United States after Asian Americans. Hispanic/Latinos overall are the second-largest ethnic group in the United States, after non-Hispanic whites (a group which, like Hispanics and Latinos, is composed of dozens of sub-groups of differing national origin).Hispanics have lived within what is now the United States continuously since the founding of St. Augustine by the Spanish in 1565. After Native Americans, Hispanics are the oldest ethnic group to inhabit much of what is today the United States. Many have Native American ancestry. Spain colonized large areas of what is today the American Southwest and West Coast, as well as Florida. Its holdings included present-day California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas, all of which were part of the Republic of Mexico from its independence in 1821 until the end of the Mexican–American War in 1848. Conversely, Hispanic immigrants to the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area derive from a broad spectrum of Latin American states.A study published in 2015 in the American Journal of Human Genetics, based on 23andMe data from 8,663 self-described Latinos, estimated that Latinos in the United States carried a mean of 65.1% European ancestry, 18.0% Native American ancestry, and 6.2% African ancestry. The study found that self-described Latinos from the Southwest, especially those along the Mexican border, had the highest mean levels of Native American ancestry.
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The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2), the United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area and slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe's 3.9 million square miles (10.1 million km2). With a population of over 325 million people, the U.S. is the third most populous country. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city by population is New York City. Forty-eight states and the capital's federal district are contiguous in North America between Canada and Mexico. The State of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The State of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate, and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.Paleo-Indians migrated from Siberia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century. The United States emerged from the thirteen British colonies established along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the colonies following the French and Indian War led to the American Revolution, which began in 1775, and the subsequent Declaration of Independence in 1776. The war ended in 1783 with the United States becoming the first country to gain independence from a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, with the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, being ratified in 1791 to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. The United States embarked on a vigorous expansion across North America throughout the 19th century, acquiring new territories, displacing Native American tribes, and gradually admitting new states until it spanned the continent by 1848. During the second half of the 19th century, the Civil War led to the abolition of slavery. By the end of the century, the United States had extended into the Pacific Ocean, and its economy, driven in large part by the Industrial Revolution, began to soar. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a global military power. The United States emerged from World War II as a global superpower, the first country to develop nuclear weapons, the only country to use them in warfare, and a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union competed in the Space Race, culminating with the 1969 moon landing. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the world's sole superpower.The United States is the world's oldest surviving federation. It is a federal republic and a representative democracy, in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law. The United States is a founding member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States (OAS), and other international organizations. The United States is a highly developed country, with the world's largest economy by nominal GDP and second-largest economy by PPP, accounting for approximately a quarter of global GDP. The U.S. economy is largely post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge-based activities, although the manufacturing sector remains the second-largest in the world. The United States is the world's largest importer and the second largest exporter of goods, by value. Although its population is only 4.3% of the world total, t ...
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United States
00:04:39 1 Etymology
00:08:02 2 History
00:08:11 2.1 Indigenous peoples and pre-Columbian history
00:10:36 2.2 European settlements
00:15:56 2.2.1 Effects on and interaction with native populations
00:17:45 2.3 Independence and expansion (1776–1865)
00:22:27 2.4 Civil War and Reconstruction era
00:25:50 2.5 Further immigration, expansion, and industrialization
00:28:11 2.6 World War I, Great Depression, and World War II
00:31:01 2.7 Cold War and civil rights era
00:34:34 2.8 Contemporary history
00:39:02 3 Geography, climate, and environment
00:43:37 3.1 Wildlife
00:45:29 4 Demographics
00:45:38 4.1 Population
00:51:40 4.2 Language
00:53:39 4.3 Religion
00:58:01 4.4 Family structure
00:59:41 4.5 Health
01:03:08 4.6 Education
01:05:10 5 Government and politics
01:09:03 5.1 Political divisions
01:10:53 5.2 Parties and elections
01:13:08 5.3 Foreign relations
01:15:45 5.4 Government finance
01:20:00 5.5 Military
01:22:44 6 Law enforcement and crime
01:28:25 7 Economy
01:33:58 7.1 Science and technology
01:37:06 7.2 Income, poverty and wealth
01:41:57 8 Infrastructure
01:42:06 8.1 Transportation
01:44:31 8.2 Energy
01:45:34 8.3 Water supply and sanitation
01:46:12 9 Culture
01:48:32 9.1 Food
01:50:40 9.2 Literature, philosophy, and visual art
01:54:39 9.3 Music
01:56:19 9.4 Cinema
01:59:09 9.5 Sports
02:01:28 9.6 Mass media
02:04:34 10 See also
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The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2), the United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area and slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe's 3.9 million square miles (10.1 million km2). With a population of over 325 million people, the U.S. is the third most populous country. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city by population is New York City. Forty-eight states and the capital's federal district are contiguous in North America between Canada and Mexico. The State of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The State of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate, and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.Paleo-Indians migrated from Siberia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century. The United States emerged from the thirteen British colonies established along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the colonies following the French and Indian War led to the American Revolution, which began in 1775, and the subsequent Declaration of Independence in 1776. The war ended in 1783 with the United States becoming the first country to gain independence from a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, with the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, being ratified in 1791 to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. The United States embarked on a vigorous expansion across North America throughout the 19th century, acquiring new territories, displacing Native American tribes, and gradually admitting new states until it spanned the continent by 1848. During the second half of the 19th century, the Civil War led to the abolition of slavery. By the end of the century, the United States had extended into the Pacific Ocean, and its economy, driven in large part by the Industrial Revolution, began to soar. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a global military power. The United States emer ...