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Them. i think that he is going to be encouraging with them, and he will be challenging at them, and he is coming as the shepherd of rome, and he is one of them, and eshoos the dicker of christ, and so is i would not expect a lot of finger wagging, and certainly, he did it to the bishops and the priests in ha van na, and he is most hardest of his own, but he is most merciful to the flock, but he challenges them, dont grow tire and do what you are supposed to do and be ministers and be shepherds a...

You just said he is blessing in many ways not only to the catholics that are with him all the time, but to all of us. he knows that especially coming to the states and to new york hes aware that he would reach out to many. >> he is speaking to a broad audience at every stop along this tour. thank you for being with us here. i do have to get going. i want to go to luke who is right outside the basilica. the crowd is probably moving your direction now. what are people saying about that experience?...

All of it is positive. i want to bring delia in here. one of the important things to watch as a journalist is how the holy father balances his duties or his needs of his own flock of his own clergy with the larger political aims that he obviously has given his comments today and certainly what we saw in cuba over the weekend. what do you know about how that balance is trying to be struck? >> well, in the first instance, when he spoke to the bishops, chris, he went straight to one of the topics w...

Out of the church and have the smell of the flock on them and he demonstrates that on these foreign trips. hes always stopping the car. if theres a baby anywhere nearby and he sees it i can guarantee you that baby will get blessed or that baby will get kissed. today before he went into mass at santiago de cuba there were sick children outside the shrine. he stopped before going in the church to begin mass and talked to them and blessed them. it was quite a moving moment. its something he likes t...

Chair he is going to be sitting on in his mass in new york has been built by day laborers. do you think that the issue of immigration and how to talk about it can be something that the pope has an impact on here? >> you know, i really hope he does talk about this. lets remember that hispanic catholics are amongst the most positive about their feelings about this pope. and so to have a spanish speaking pope deliver many of his addresses in spanish will be very, very important to that segment of h...

He loves children. of course, the disabled and the poor. and we love to see whether he will be allowed to get anywhere close to the flock as he likes to do. but this is truly a historic moment which starts from president obama and the first lady to welcome him at joint base andrews, which is quite unusual for the president to go and meet and greet a foreign dignitary there without having to wait for him to get to the white house. that shows you how important, how much importance he puts on both ...

Island nation. while the vatican is often perceived as the institution of no, this pope says yes, emphasizing the positive. embracing people eager to be among this flock. but some wonder if his criticism of capitalism means that message could change on u.s. soil. >> for most of this countrys history, u.s. catholics were chasing the american dream, to try to be successful. so they hear that message differently when theyre the ones who have reached the top of the economic ladder. >> an historic vi...

Heres florida senator marco rubio an outspoken critic of normalizing relations with cuba. were told when the pope comes to the united states hes going to lecture the country about immigration, about economic justice. hes meeting the castro brothers, theyre murderers, they jail political dissidents, they create poverty for their people. is he going to lecture them, too? >> of course its disappointing when i understand hes a religious figure and there to inspire the flock and went to celebrate mas...

Different image of the pope. >> reporter: well, he has a prayer book that all priests have and in that prayer book, he has a letter that was written to him by his grandmother, rosa, when he was ordained a priest or when he decided to become a priest. there is also his day planner in there, a razor. i moon, as he says, its not like hes carrying the code to the nuclear bomb. but he very much believes its important that the pope be shown as a normal person. as he always says, i am a sinner so that ...

Rubio an outspoken critic of normalizing relations with cuba. were told when the pope comes to the united states hes going to lecture the country about immigration, about economic justice. hes meeting the castro brothers, theyre murderers, they jail political dissidents, they create poverty for their people. is he going to lecture them, too? >> of course its disappointing when i understand hes a religious figure and there to inspire the flock and went to celebrate mass. didnt necessarily go ther...