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Life ministering the masses. francis is there to rally interest among young people. of the more than 120 million catholics in brazil, nearly 33 million are between the ages of 18 and 29. however, over the past four decades, there has been a significant decline in the number of brazilians who call themselves catholic. nbc's claudio lovongo. as many as a million people are expected to gather for world youth day, right? >> that's right, craig. obviously this million people where they did say that they wanted to welcome the pope, they want. ed to embrace the pope and nobody thought they meant lite...

Now, the longest conclave in the last 100 years was five days. will this one go over that and become a record-breaker? well, craig, we'll have to wait for the white smoke and see. >> well, we know that they have been here for a number of days now. we saw some pictures from mass this morning. what else have they been doing over the past few days. have there been alliances built, campaigning, so to speak? >> well, what we know is that there are two factions coming out of college of cardinals. one is the reformers who want to change the things as they are run here now from within the vatican city...

Was sieve defense. tiger woods set a personal best this weekend. he made 24 birdies in just three rounds. right now woods has a five-stroke lead over phil mickelson at the world golf championships in florida. ahead of tuesday's conclave meeting of 115 cardinals to pick a new pope, the vatican is taking all precautions to keep the voting process secret, but it's certainly not stopping speculation on the outside about who the next pope could be. nbc's claudio lovongo is in rome for us this afternoon or this evening. claudio, how likely is it that the next pope will be a person from the develop...

Public sentiment against the cardinals because they are making their way towards rome and they will be part of the conclave, the election of the next pope, and there is a rising sentiment that these -- that these cardinals in particular, those who are implicated in the sex scandal should involve for the next pope. well, the vatican hasn't reacted yet. they may issue a statement in the next few days but, of course, that is a decision for the pope to make, but certainly this latest controversy surrounding cardinals and who the public don't want to vote in the conclave is only the latest in a str...

Around the globe are on their way right now to rome to take part in the conclave to pick a new pope. nbc's claudio lovongo is in rome as well. claudio, seem to be more issues on the way to the conclave this morning. tell us about those. >> reporter: the allegations brought forward by a number of priests and they say they accuse scottish cardinal keith o'brien of improper behavior towards them, believed, of course, to be of sexual nature. about 30 years ago when he was supervising these priests when they were still seminaries or young priests. o'brien is only the last of a number of cardinals w...