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>> here is your shot of the morning, st. patrick's day pets all dressed up, whether it is your dog, cat, rabbit. what do you find a hat that small? you can e-mail us your pet pictures or tweet us. send in your pet photos this morning. tucker and ali, the more ridiculous, the better, right? >> that is the only criteria. >>alisyn: they need to wear sunglasses. while we are celebrating st. patrick's day we are also celebrating a foundation named by combining st. patrick's and bald raising money for childhood cancer search while volunteers shake their heads for the cause. we are joined by the co-f...

Our vatican expert and cnn contractor is also the news director of catholic television network. and roberto sid from miami beach, florida. he is also from argentina and you met the man who is now pope last week. and father hillgardiner is here with me at st. patricks. raymond, let me start with you. he came in second last time. you've always talked about this as a horse race. now he is pope francis. who is this man? >> well, i think he called himself pope francis after st. francis of assisi. the great builder of the church. god told st. francis, rebuild my church. the new pope francis is suppo...

Time, not this time. so when he walked out to that balcony, i thought wow. this group saw something in this man that they think the church needs now and they said we're going to give him to you. >> he wasn't in discussion. earlier chris cuomo said on our air he talked to a retired cardinal and the retired cardinal's advice to chris was you need to focus on bergoglio. you're missing out that you haven't been discussing him. i don't know the source, which retired cardinal it was. he was certainly right on the money on this. erin, it was an extraordinary day, a day, i think everybody would was he...

St. patrick's. he's still a young man. he dismissed his own chances but what's the mood there? >> a lot of new yorkers were hopeful. even though the archbishop of new york, timothy dolan, was not one of the top possible front runners, boston preceded him, he was spoken of as being a humble man but catholics of new york city are very excited. there's a huge population of catholics in new york city but also a huge populations of tourists. we spoke with argentinaians in their glory. people from latin america speaking about how italy is giving an opportunity of reaching out to other countries such...

20/20. you can go back to the unprecedented surgeries within a year which elevated about almost 30 cardinals which will be his successor. one of them among the cardinals but more telling might be an interview he gave about three years ago to a german journalist which the journalist asked if he would consider resigning and the pope said, yes, if a pope clearly realize he is no longer fiscally, psychologically and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office and he has the right and under some circumstances the ultimate obligation to resign. he has never ruled it out. of course now t...