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Mott not to communicate the truth to them. when they say abortion is a horrible crime. thats opening arms with the truth. if were going to help you with a difficult pregnancy as much as we can but we cant tell you abortion will be good for you. we believe that its not. the truth has a healing power. one of the advantages of someone like pope francis i is he knows how to communicate those truth in a gentle way and reveal their beauty. sometimes we havent done a good job of that. >> i have to also...

Has one lung. yeah, when i talked to cardinal dolan this morning and i asked him about the conclave and what it was like in there, heres what he told me about it. >> it was difficult for me to make up my mind at first. but i mean it when i say, im hard boiled when it comes to the spiritual life. you could sense the gentle breeze of the holy spirit and gradually you saw this man emerge and as youd watch him and listen to the cardinals who know him well and as you saw just the acclimation of the c...

And symbolically he now connects the old world and the new world and thats where the catholic church is growing. the question of course will be what kind of pope will he be? he is conservative on a lot of things where catholics want people to be more moderate or more liberal but then he takes the name francis, which again is consistent with the humility of service to others. so a lot of its open questions, obviously, but he is a great story and also came out of nowhere in a way because he was no...

That had been home to four previous arch bishops. millions of dollars from the sale would help pay settlements to victims. there is an excitement around this cardinal omalley because of the work hes done helping victims whove been sexually abused in scandal. what is the atmosphere? what are you hearing about him there? >> shawn omalley has become one of the surprise front-runner in the last few days. if you asked me a few weeks ago if he was a contender, no one would have given him a chance. but...

On the wings of lunesta. ♪ >> all right, with everyone speculating who will be the next pope we found a priest who is not looking to be the next driver -- sorry, not looking to be the next pope, but instead to drive the pope. >> there we go. he has driven a couple papal front-runners in the past. that could make him a real contender to drive the popemobile. abcs david wright actually tracked him down. >> reporter: with pope benedicts historic abdication to the moments they closed the doors of ...

Excommunication. cardinal dolan thought to be a considerable contender gave a final radio dispatch from rome before heading into conclave himself. >> a unique special morning, i never thought i would be doing what i am about to do. >> reporter: the last word from him for a while. "everyone out" and with that the doors closed. the work of choosing a pope would truly begin. >> there is a sanctity in the air, they try to see who does it belong to among the 115 cardinals -- who is the person who is ...

Coalescing not around an italian cardinal but around a cardinal from brazil. openly campaigning for pope is frowned upon. both men made closely watched appearances in churches in rome on sunday. another contender, an american, timothy dolan of new york, greeted well wishers at the local church hes affiliated with in rome. the u.s. is the second biggest voting bloc of cardinals behind the italians. the next pope could also be a cardinal from ghana who works in the vatican but comes from a contine...

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ open your eyes may be you will see the lies ♪ >> six months to the day from our attack in benghazi and lawmakers are still waiting for answers to save four americans. on this half year mark we are learning that ambassador susan rice is now the leading contender to be national security advisor. official cabinet post and doesnt require senate confirmation but person in that position has a major hand some shaping policy. what do you think about this. >> im really important...

The next pope. this time around, however, there is not one clear front-runner. there are deep divisions among the 115 cardinals who will be voting here starting tomorrow divisions between reformers and those who favor the status quo. some vatican watchers see it as a showdown between the romans and the reformers, cardinals, many from other countries, who want the next pope to more aggressively take on issues like sex abuse by priests and alleged corruption. the romans appear to be coalescing not...

The 115 cardinals who will be voting here starting tomorrow divisions between reformers and those who favor the status quo. some vatican watchers see it as a showdown between the romans and the reformers, cardinals, many from other countries, who want the next pope to more aggressively take on issues like sex abuse by priests and alleged corruption. the romans appear to be coalescing not around an italian cardinal, but around cardinal brazil. the reformers are actually set to be backing an itali...