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KPIX CBS News Sunday Morning March 10, 2013

Dunham comes clean about girls. Osgood a handson kind of singer songwriter is trying his hand at a very different sort of musical composition. This morning Anthony Mason has his story. Reporter hes the leader of phish, the biggest jam band in america. I love writing music. I just love it. Its like food. Reporter but now Trey Anastasio is trying something new broadway. Like a giant sculpture that wont submit very easily. You know, you change one thing and Everything Else changes. Reporter coming up on sunday morning, curtain up on Trey Anastasio. Osgood lucy craft serves up sushi prepared by a legendary chef. Lee cowan admires the courage of actress Valerie Harper. Steve hartman meets a boy with plenty of new found friends but first the headlines for this morning the 10th of march 2013. At the vatican preparations continue for tuesdays conclave that will lead to the selection of a new pope. The smoke heralding the successor to Pope Benedict is now in place above the sistine chapel. Yesterday the ring and personal seals of the outgoing pontiff were destroyed. Cbs news will be at the vatican for this weeks papal conclave starting tomorrow on cbs this morning and the cbs evening news. Afghanistans President Hamid karzai today accused the United States of working with the taliban to destabilize his country. His comments came shortly before he was to meet with visiting defense secretary chuck hagel. Former South African president Nelson Mandela went back into the hospital yesterday. The government says he was admitted for a routine test. Mandela is 94. A number of reports this morning indicate president obama will select thomas perez the current head of the Justice Departments Civil Rights Division to be the next secretary of labor. Todays Washington Post is reporting that susan rejected by congress to be secretary of state, is mr. Obamas choice to be his National Security advisor. Doctors in london say that using mouse stem cells they have genetically engineered teeth coated in enamel that could some day allow deny cheurs to be replaced by real substitute teeth. Todays weather. Sunny and mild in the east but biting cold out west. The week ahead shows some snow and rain, but also some rising temperatures. Spring is just ten days away. Ahead. Taste it again for salt. Reporter rita moreno. I loved every bloody moment. Osgood osgood celibacy of the clergy has been part of the Roman Catholic tradition for centuries. So what are the chances, if any that the pope about to be chosen would heed any of the voices calling for that condition to change . Our sunday morning cover story is reported now by barry pederson. cheers and applause reporter with Pope Benedict retired, many catholics are hoping a new pope may be a chance to rethink old doctrines. Including one of the oldest. In Todays Church now one of the most controversial celibacy. Its that call. Leave everything and follow me. If you do that, then youre not just a functionary providing religious services. Your someone whose whole life is at stake in this reporter chicagos Cardinal Francis george is now in rome for the conclave. If youre going to lead the people in christs name, celibacy isnt absolutely necessary but it is a sign that somebody has left everything for the sake of the lord. Reporter at what age did you really make this commitment to celibacy . How old were you when you decided this was going to be your life . I was a senior in high school. Age 18 reporter father john fits gibbons is president of denvers jesuit Regis University. He said the church teaches that celibacy means a priest or a nun doesnt have family worries and can instead focus solely on their religious work. The ability the wherewithal the time, to give your energies to the people of god in a more concentrated, more full way reporter not distracted by family kids, things like that any economic well being to some degree if you really believe that, you would never go to a marriage doctor. You would never elect a married president. Because he would say oh, he just cares about his family. He doesnt care about the country. He doesnt care about my health. You know, thats such a phony argument. Reporter Pulitzer Prize winning author gary wills studied for the catholic priesthood but left over the demand for celibacy. He has written extensively and critically about the church. Celibacy in the church has developed is unhealthy. Instead of uniting it with communities, it divides them from communities. Reporter you mean by setting them apart . Setting them apart. Reporter for christianitys first thousand years priests could marry and have families. In fact, st. Peter the first pope, had a wife. Celibacy became widespread in the 11th century not so much because of scripture as for simple economics. Widows of married priests were claiming inheritance rights to church lands. Celibacy ended that but not for everyone. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses. Reporter some parish priests, like denvers father frank, are members of the churchs eastern right branch. For through your goodness we receive the bread we offer you reporter his is the Russian Byzantine Catholic Church which still reports to the pope through him and with him. They celebrate mass but unlike Roman Catholic priests, they can marry and have children. Does that make you a better priest, a more understanding priest . I think for a lot of people having somebody who has had experienced what theyve experienced is a very useful thing in terms of pastor counseling reporter and the Roman Catholic church is now welcoming already married priests but only those converting from protestant denominations. So you took this vow when you were how old, the vow of celibacy . Probably 28, 29, Something Like that reporter even the most devout catholics, like Regis University faculty member sister peg maloney must cope with very human feelings. Did that ever happen to you . Falling in love, yes reporter as a nun . Yes reporter what did you do . Talked to my spiritual director reporter did you think about leaving . Oh, i was very panicked. Reporter she decided to stay sell bait and in her order. But this person chose another path. He was ordained at age 31. He later became friends with patty and one day she found the courage to reach out. So i met with him. And i said, weve got a serious problem here. He said whats that . And i said, you know, im falling in love with you. Reporter and what did he say . And he said, i feel the same way. Reporter you both knew. Yes. Reporter he left the priesthood and theyve been married 34 years with kids and grand kids. And bill still acts as a minister as he did at his childrens weddings. But not as a priest in a Catholic Church he still loves and even now yearns to serve. If the next pope lifted the rule of celibacy, would you go back . Yes, i would. Reporter attitudes among american catholics about celibacy are shifting. A new cbs News New York times poll shows 66 of them now favor letting priests marry. Encouraging news for Sister Christine sheng we cant divorce our plumbing from the totality of our person. Reporter she runs an ohiobased Advocacy Group called future church, as in a future when celibacy would be optional. Given the needs of the people of god, we should be opening order nation rather than closing parishes. Reporter closing even as the population of american catholics is growing. But the number of priests is falling fast. And those still in the church are dealing with the pedestrian ophelia scandal. Father gets gibbons. People would suggest that the issues of pedofill i cant are connected with this demand for celibacy. What do you think . I think thats incredibly wrong. There are people in every walk of life married life, single life clerical life, religious life who are not healthy. Reporter that said candidates for catholic priesthood like these men at the seminary outside chicago now go through a battery of psychological tests to assess their attitudes on sex and celibacy. Derek hough i dont see it as like an offense to me to ask those questions. They should be asked. Reporter and you think a better priesthood will emerge from this . I certainly hope so, yes reporter because . Because maybe they werent questions that were asked in the past that should have been reporter like the others, conner danestrom pledged celibacy as part of his commitment so this is not easy. But at the same time i can tell you from my own personal experience that this life, this sell bait life dedicated to god on the way to priesthood has made me happier than anything else ive ever done in my life. No one is forcing me to be here reporter but some show a Surprising New flexibility. December montd drummer if the church changed this policy this discipline, i would not be crying foul at all. I would embrace know. Reporter would you still be sell bait . Honestly, i will say this. I have no bones about this. If i had a chance to get married, i would. Reporter if you could still be a priest yes, i would. No doubt. No doubt. Reporter a flexibility that is one reason Many American catholics wonder how long celibacy will be a part of Todays Church. Or perhaps how soon it may become a fading tradition. Osgood next, we go boating with honest abe. I had this shingle rash right next to my spine. Clusters of pustules, pimples. The soreness was excruciating. It was impossible to even think about dancing. When youre dancing your partner is holding you. So, his hand would have been right in the spot that i had the shingles. No tango. No rhumba. You cant be touched. For more of the inside story visit shinglesinfo. Com osgood and now a page from our sunday morning almanac. March 10, 1849, eight score and four years ago today. The day a future president brought forth on this continent a new notion for improving river navigation. For that was the day Abraham Lincoln filed a Patent Application for his imaginative method of buoying vessels over shoals. At age 22, lincoln had been a crewman on a flat boat that got stuck on a dam at new salem illinois. A bit of lincoln folklore depicted in the the 1940 abe lincoln in illinois with Raymond Massey in the starring role. Never mind me. Get them pigs. Reporter after another river boat drowning incident in 1848 when he was serving as a congressman, lincoln got to work. As his law partner William Herndon later wrote continuing thinking on the subject of lifting vessels over sand bars and other subjects in the water suggested to him an idea of inventing an apparatus for this purpose. The next year came lincolns solution, a ship equipped with chambers along the side that could be lowered into the water and inflated like balloons to lift the vessel over the obstruction. Just two months after filing his application he received approval making him the only u. S. President to ever have received a patent. Even William Herndon thought the whole contraption was practical and in the end the only one ever built was lincolns scale model which now sits in the Smithsonian Institution high and dry. Osgood coming up, sushi anyone . Im doing my own sleep study. Advil pm® or tylenol pm. ® the advil pm® guy is spending less time lying awake with annoying aches and pains and more time asleep. Advil pm®. The difference is a better nights sleep. [ male announcer ] when youre going the distance its nice to have the experience and commitment to go along with you. Aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plans, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. Keep dreaming. Keep doing. Go long. Dont be late. We switched to Daylight Saving time overnight. Spring forward. E energy. Wheres it going to come from . Thats why right here in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. Enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. Whats it going to do to the planet . Natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. Weve got to be smart about this. Its a smart way to go. Preparing japan hes food in all its variety is an exacting task. Its no surprise that it takes raw talent aplenty to become japans most famous sushi chef. Lucy craft found him hard at work in his tokyo restaurant. Reporter in japan, there are about 30,000 sushi restaurants. But theres no one quite like sushi ten onnonjiro ono. Pressing rice and fish everyday at the age of 87 he has helped transform what was once a street food snack into gourmet cuisine. Threestar chef, he was immortalized in a recent documentary, jiro dreams of sushi. The aging artisan draws a city stream of be sotted admirers from u. S. And around the world at prices that start at almost 400 a person. At his side, the elder of his two sons. Like the crown prince to a long lived king, the 50yearold heir patiently buys his time waiting to take the reins from a Living Legend from societys point of view, my father is way up here, up above the clouds. But slowly im reaching his level. Im not just riding his coat tails. Reporter like most men of his generation, he was an absentee father, a stranger to his own family as he logged grueling 18hour days year after year. This workaholic intensity was fueled not just by the possibilities of the future but harrowing memories of the past. I was determined to make sure my children would never have to suffer as i did. Reporter his own childhood was cut short when his struggling family sent him away to live and work at a restaurant. He was just seven years old. I was too young to apprentice with a gardener or carpenter. The local restaurant was the only place that would take me. So thats how i ended up in this business. Reporter vowing never to go hungry again jiro set up shop in the basement of this office building. Humble quarters for his now celebrated eatery. Endlessly honing and tain beingerring with independent greet yents preparation and present iation he forged a kind of sushi al kemy. He and his cooks faithfully replicate jiros almost scientific recipe for the perfect omlette painstakingly pure aced and baked without a single air bubble. Rice boiled and seasoned in tiny batches so that it cools to optimal temperature by the time its served. Delicate independent go strips of flounder draped luxuriously like fine fabric. Jiros pinpoint execution of the culinary process is absolute. But this iron control some diners have discovered to their peril doesnt stop at the counter. Patrons must reserve a month in advance and are expected not just to show up on time but to consume on time. Eating sushi no longer than three seconds after it hits the plate. Meals at jiros may be shorter than coffee breaks. The father and sons as if tid useness and their habit of scolding customers has earned the family plenty of raspberries along with praise. They make no apologies for it. People who are serious about sushi love our restaurant. Those who prefer to linger over their meals or drink dont. Thats why opinions about us are so divided. Reporter its not everyones reese pee for success. But for this sushimaking dynasty, they wouldnt have it any other way. Osgood ahead, we hang out with the girls im a lady. Shes a lady. Youre a lady. Were the ladies. Osgood and later. Just visiting here after minneapolis. Oh, yeah, i could tell from your accent osgood tvs rhoda. Actress, Valerie Harper. I dont want to freak you out, but i think that i may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice. Of a generation. Its sunday morning on cbs and here again is charles osgood. Osgood thats lena dunham playing the lead character in girls, a hit tv series that is largely her own creation. Its talk about television these days and she talked about it all with our tracy smith. Then i realized of course im not mad at her. Im mad at me. What for . For the fact that my entire life has been one ridiculous mistake after another. Reporter if you want to feel better about yourself, consider Hannah Horvath the central character in hbos comedy drama series girls she was in all my writing classes. I used to complain about what an awful writer and human she was reporter hannah is an aspiring writer on her own in new york city. Shes too selfabsorbed to be worldly. Too awkward to be popular too,. Well dumpy to skate by on looks alone. Is it true that you have hannahs clothes tailored to be less flattering . Yeah. I mean we will do a thing where well fit clothes so the clothes are rumbled up reporter he you want her to look awkward i think its pormt. I think its a big part of who she is. Reporter pity poor hannah. But if you want to feel bad about yourself, look at lena dunham. At 26 26 shes a head writer, executive producer and as of last month the golden globe winning star of what might be the most talkedabout tv show in recent memory. So, everybody i know is a character on the show. Its about nothing. Absolutely nothing. Reporter if seinfeld gave us a show about nothing girls is a show about everything. Hannah and her pals, played by alison williams, zasha mammoth and jemima kirk, are 20something trying to make it in new york city what do you really want to do . Whats your dream . Just yell it out whats your dream . Whats inside of you . I want to sing. Whats the second thing you want to do . Reporter the characters live love, and love far too graphically for us to show here. You know that at times the show can be kind of vulgar. Do you think it has to be . Yeah, probably. Probably does. If were really going to show what an everyday sex scene looks like between two peop

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