From New York, this is Democracy Now.

I, too, would like this greeting of peace to enter your hearts, to reach your families.

To all people, wherever they may be, to all peoples, to all the earth, peace be with you.

A chance be with you. The first ever American Pope greets 1.4 billion Roman Catholics and the world with a message of peace, choosing the name Leo the 14th, suggesting a possible emphasis on social justice,

immigrants, and labor.

We'll go to Rome to speak with National Catholic Reporter, Executive Editor, James Grimaldi,

and Peter Isley, one of the founders of SNAP, Survivors Network of those

abused by priests. Here in New York, Reverend Brian Massingale joins us, Professor of Theological

and Social Ethics at Fordham University, author of Racial Justice and the Catholic Church.

The beloved community is not just a community that eradicates racism and poverty and war, but it also needs to stand against misogyny homophobia,

because if we're going to have a beloved community, you can't have a community

where women are not seen as equal and where homosexual people

aren't seen as equal.

In his last public appearance before his death, Pope Francis addressed Easter Sunday

Mass and repeated his call for a ceasefire in Gaza, donating one of his Pope mobiles

to be turned into a mobile health care unit for children in Gaza.

As Mother's Day approaches, we speak with a mother in Gaza.

Today, I speak to you from Channunas, where there is no home, no world, and no life as you know it.

It's not an emergency in Gaza.

It's a part of the landscape, a natural extension of a long siege,

and a world that has chosen to become used to seeing us suffer.

We are not living. We are enduring.

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