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Italians is under a nonitalian again. but they went pretty far, all the way to argentina to find this fellow and hes now leader of the worlds 1.2 billion catholics. were joined in rome. father, you remind me last time we forget, especially a lots of noncatholics watching would say what does it mean to me? this guy doesnt speak for me. i dont need a intermediate -- airy but he represents and becomes a lightening rod for the basic issues of personal faith and religion that come up in this increasi...

All the cardinals, of course, are men as you have seen. as are all of the roman catholic priests. >> however, there is a growing number of women saying they should have the very same right. kabcs christina salvo has that story. >> reporter: in her eyes what calls jane valla to the priesthood is no different than what calls a man. >> in the name of god -- >> reporter: but because she is a woman, the vatican says she is not allowed to be a priest. the reason according to the church, jesus never ch...

Different kind of law, gods law. joining us right now is the pistol packing pastor from christian pentecostal church in staten island, new york, pastor john rocco carlo. gosh to you. >> good morning. >> steve: what does that mean? pistol packing? >> well, its not a strange thing. if you look in the new testament, the disciples carried swords, some of them. even the apostle, paul, who was a young rabbi, they had the temple police at the time. they went out and made arrests. >> steve: sure. >> so ...

>> heather: speaking of moving forward, what is the most important characteristic needed in the next pope. will they look at age as a factor? >> reporter: there will be a lot of factors that are considered by the cardinals. most important thing is that the pope is first and foremost a witness, he is an apostle, an heir to st. peter. his job is to christian witness in the world and to bring the message of jesus christ to the world. that the first and most important path to the papacy. there are i...

Abused young boys and just shifted them around, and if that doesnt change this church is in trouble. >> i think thats absolutely right and everybody sees that reforms need to continue. benedict was wonderful at initiating reforms. over the last ten years we have seen a great many advances, especially in the church in the united states, but certainly reforms need to continue. the real story is the excitement you see month young people for the church. at the end of the day its about goodness and t...

"associated press" has interesting color to what transpired over the last 20 minutes saying as pope benedict the xvi left the vatican for the last time one of his closes aides wept by his side as he bade farewell to the vatican. certainly there is a lot of emotion around this other than just, steven as you just mentioned sort of what they need to follow as part of policy, almost, as we see -- as we see the transition of the church. do you happen to know where this held bad is? does this look fam...

Figurehead. he is an apostle. a successor to the apostles and an apostle and his job is go out and spread the gospel. if he cant do, that he needs to step out of the way to allow someone else who can to do that. so i think that this resignation shows his understanding of what his job as pope is. this is not a management job. this is a job of spreading the truth, of the catholic church. >> bret: yeah. >> this is not a management job. at the same time, too, there is reform as the friends, george w...

Infa infantcide. and yet we have-- reproductive genocide and thats the lives of the little babies in the womb. the land mine decision of roe versus wade 40 years ago and now we have at least 55 million legal deaths of little babies and so, that is something that would be shocking to my uncle, dr. martin luther king, jr. at the same time, you have the landmark anniversary of the emancipation proclamation that happened on january 1st and then later this year, 50 years of the "i have a dream" speec...

Infa infantcide. and yet we have-- reproductive genocide and thats the lives of the little babies in the womb. the land mine decision of roe versus wade 40 years ago and now we have at least 55 million legal deaths of little babies and so, that is something that would be shocking to my uncle, dr. martin luther king, jr. at the same time, you have the landmark anniversary of the emancipation proclamation that happened on january 1st and then later this year, 50 years of the "i have a dream" speec...

Infa infantcide. and yet we have-- reproductive genocide and thats the lives of the little babies in the womb. the land mine decision of roe versus wade 40 years ago and now we have at least 55 million legal deaths of little babies and so, that is something that would be shocking to my uncle, dr. martin luther king, jr. at the same time, you have the landmark anniversary of the emancipation proclamation that happened on january 1st and then later this year, 50 years of the "i have a dream" speec...