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Catholics around the world. >> i think what was so profound, you know, i got on sunday and the first thing i did was go to confession. you can go to confession anytime at st. peter's. the priest after ward gave me a holy card and sat francis. it had a peace prayer. lord, make me an instrument of your peace. friend of mine said it's a soft whisper that pope francis came out with tonight. when you look at his bio and you see jesuit and he is a member of the communion liberation movement and he cares for the poor and lives simply. you wonder if he can't heal some of the divides that we have. >> b...

Here is that even -- no matter what the polls may say, there's plenty of people who feel like the church is very relevant and very much in touch with their lives. so the excitement of the people in the square of st. peter's. and you saw, i think, we might have gotten a glimpse of how pope francis i will continue to make the message of christ relevant in the way that he connected with the crowd of people who are outside st. peter's basilicbasilica, who ha praying all afternoon for the cardinals. at one moment, at one point when he was greeting them, before he gave his first blessing as pope, he...

Abc's david wright brings us some insight on these miracles from a higher power. >> reporter: from the miracle of creation to the parting of the red sea to the last judgment, the sistine chapel is a room full of miracles. here at the vatican the term miracle is not taken lightly. right across from st. peter's is the congregation for the causes of saints. behind these huge doors investigators spent years poring over reports of miracles, trying to determine if they are truly miraculous. >> it has to be lasting, instantaneous, perfect and scientifically inexplicable. >> reporter: in catholic theo...

On st. peter's, the only one who got a cheer was cardinal dolan. having said that, i think you know, just talking to people around the vatican, the sense of it is, that it's probably going the chance of an american pope, from a very long shot to a long shot. nobody is trying to say that cardinal o'malley from boston or cardinal dolan are front-runners. having said that, i think some weeks ago, right when pope benedict decided to step down. it would have been almost totally discounted. and so there has been a little bit of a change, and if there is sort of one feeling, it's that if this happens...

Square. what will they do tomorrow? well, some of them are known to be holding masses in some of the churches here in rome. but many have decided not to do so because they don't have much time really to debate, pray and meditate for the best choice they believe will be the next successor on the throne of st. peter's. and many of these cardinals don't really know each other and they just started meeting up on monday when they were called upon to come to rome after the surprise resignation of pope benedict xvi. they can't really do with any time off to gather their ideas. so they're going to the...