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Junipero, a very controversial figure. on one side, he's revered because he is an 18th century franciscan missionary who came to the united states to california and started evangelizing along the coast. now, where does the controversy come? well, a lot of native americans and latino groups have said that, you know, it's a bleeding wound that reminds them of a time when their culture, their language, was ripped from them. but the catholic church does defend this man. they're cannonizing him. they're making him a saint. so that's what we're going to see later today. you can see the preparations ...

Reinvigora reinvigorating. -- and that's a big part of the story here. it doesn't mean that he's going to have a long-term impact on american electoral politics. popes usually don't. but the issues he's chosen to focus on have been issues that have in a sense reaffirmed the social justice wing of catholicism and made a lot of catholic democrats feel better about being catholics and democrats than they have in a while. >> again we're awaiting pope franc francis's arrival. this is about as much pomp and ceremony as there is in washington d.c. >> exactly. and of course with the president, the vic...

United states. i think that wurns he was made archbishop of buenos aires. he decided he was going to be the pastor of those people. and the only time he left was when he had to go to rome or other places for meetings that are mandatory. he's the first southern hemisphere pope. two-thirds of the catholics right now from from south america, central america. africa and southern asia. that is a major shift in terms of leadership of the church and as the good shift. it is really saying we're a global church. >> bishop, i'm wondering have you seen any sort of francis effect in your own parishes? we ...

Past. i mean, some people have suggested, you know, he's a marxist reluctantly coming to the scenes of capitalism. >> at some stage it becomes -- you know, what is the doctrine anymore, you know? does that matter? if the approach is very open, then the question for the conservatives is, you know, well, then the doctrine -- what is it going to matter, you know? >> i mean, this man has been a pastor. as archbishop of buenos aires. he's been out in the barrios, out in the ghetto. he doesn't start with the dogma and the doctrine and work down. he starts with what the situation and the reality in f...