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>> you know, mike, i struggle with english every morning but it doesn't have the same effect as the pope struggling with english yesterday. i was moved by something that you said, mike, last hour when you talked about being a catholic going to one mass after another seeing dust build up on the pews, seeing more and more young people leave and going through scandals. it's been a hard long slog for a lot of practicing catholics but you talk about the spiritual pay off you're getting now. this was worth the wait. >> there is a nara to this man, to this pope that's unmistakable as i indicated earl...

>> it's a remarkable shift in tone, too. church teaching has not changed, the tone, the approach, his attitude towards people, i think who am i to judge a lot of people, dismiss that as unimportant. i think it was very important and marked a water shed by a lot of people who felt judge and feel very welcome. >> then you get his spec actions with other cardinals, cardinal burke, cardinal raymond burke, very conservative. opposed the pope verbally, vocally, a head of the vatican supreme court. gone. >> 83, he is not afraid to make changes. a friend of mine that knows him, says the man is not afr...

Experiencing something of an identity crisis, catholics now have twice voted for a president who one might consider to be the most liberal on right to life issues that we have ever had. is that catholic identity crisis in the united states of kern to the vatican? >> it should be of concern to everyone, although i would underscore that catholics who are regularly practicing catholics, mass once a week catholics voted overwhelmingly for governor romney the last time. so the catholic vote such as it is, skews long a line between regularly practicing to nonpracticing. the church in the united stat...

If i want to be religious. i think that is what society is missing. >> you don't think the . ears would be some what. >> what do i do if the manager said you will do. >> put tinsel around your neck. >> and i am going to look at the presents and tree. what if i had that. i want to be at home. >> for some people a quarter founder is religious. and last time i worked in they wanted to work with the employees . happy employees help the environment of a workplace. yoining that managers are going to look for the most practicing catholics and christians and ask them to work a double. there is eye lot...

Catholics are also lapsed catholics and ex-catholics. there are many practicing catholics who are not rigidly locked in to the leadership of the bishop so there isn't anything new in that. and the controversy about abortion is, certainly, a minor part of the religious freedom issue, when the united states government can presume to tell a bishop that he has to perform abortions in his hospital, you are going to have a problem on your hand. i don't think the vast majority of people are seeing president obama as the champion of the common good. this is a turning point and he made a monumental err...