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Last minute here in revolutionary square. but in a few minutes time, the pope will land at the international airport and will go down one of the main roads into havana. we expect lots of people by the side of those roads cheering him on. this pope, of course, the first latin pope, the first pope from this hemisphere, but also the first pope who's played the biggest role in improving u.s./cuban relations. so it seems like a bit of a victory lap. but the pope is not the kind of person to rest on his laurels. he'll continue pushing for the church to have a stronger role. during three different ma...

Reestablishing connections like theirs. family once lost, but now found. and pope francis will be coming here where i'm standing in havana's revolutionary square tomorrow for what is expected to be his largest mass in cuba. hundreds of thousands of people expected here, jim. then he will travel throughout the island, a mass near santiago, cuba, cuba's second largest city. and all of those masses, we expect raul castro to be in attendance. another first, another sign of the thawing relations between church and state in cuba, jim. >> raul castro, an atheist, but he says pope francis might get hi...

>> they think it is a park in idaho. >> yes. >> crowder, you took a shot at atheist. it is life being fearfully and wonderfully created. >> there is a book called "who really cares" written by an atheist. >> and atheists and libertarians don't value life? >> we are talking about the doctor situation. i knew i would sleet slack from the atheist libertarians. do you believe in an ultimate purpose and destiny? it is not a bad thing if you do or don't, but it is a different world view. >> why does it make a difference in the value of life? you can't make the judgment. >> i didn't make the judgment...

Written from an atheist's perspective. >> the vampire for me was a perfect metaphor for the way i felt, like a lost soul roaming in the darkness without god. and i poured a lot of my despair and my unhappiness and my grief for my lost faith into those books. >> reporter: in 1998, she says she experienced a conversion. >> i knew there were probably things that the church taught that i would find very hard. but at the moment of that conversion, i was really convinced that it would all work out. >> reporter: for the past 12 years she has lived as a committed catholic. instead of writing about vam...