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And immigration are redefining what it means to be catholic in the modern age. >> building a future of freedom requires love of the common good. >> i looked at pope francis as someone who speengs community and the interconnectedness of person. >> some say for the better. >> who brings this bigger sense of what it means to be a person in our world today. >> and others say for worse. >> we have a pope who doesn't particularly like catholics. shea pope who sees the most devout, fervent, loyal, conscientious members of his religion, and he sees them as rigid. he talks constantly about open border,...

A papal document, no shortened memo, 250 pages, nine chant. >> most of the document was noncontroversial. it's only in a footnote in chapter 8 where the pope actually seems to open the door for catholics who are divorced and remarried to come and receive holy communion at mass. >> within the church, this is hugely controversial. >> this is for me something completely unacceptable. this was never allowed in the church under any pontiff, and certainly not under the last two. >> other than death, there is one way the church will condone the dissolution of marriage, and it's not divorce. >> an ann...

>> this pop of lifting spirits wherever he goes since the start of his ponti pontifica pontificate, entering a war zone. >> pope francis opens the doors of the cathedral, a symbolic act to start the catholic church's year of mercy. >> and saying mass for a record-setting 6 million catholics in the philippines in the midst of an approaching typhoon. praying for asylum seekers at the border who died trying to cross from mexico into the u.s., and calling for unity in kenya where 1200 people were killed after the 2007 elections. >> let's stand up as a sign again against -- >> around the globe, the...

Left-leaning catholicism, known as liberation theology, which pope benedict has loopposed and which bergoglio himself used to criticize. >> in particular he cares about lives that find themselves oppressed and are suffering. >> bergoglio walks a fine line between the traditional -- >> he is not just pro-life, he is more pro-life than the evangelicals in this country that have been on the front lines. >> and opening up on modern issue, bergoglio believes marriage should be between a man and a woman, though he recognizes civil unions for gay couples outside the church. >> for the liberals, he is...

Days later the vatican vows to send the former top prosecutor to investigate the alleged cover up. the problems aren't over. reports surface a cardinal personally gave francis an eight page letter from a victim. three years earlier. faced with criticism, pope francis reactivates the advisory commission and adds sex abuse survivors to the group. it's a painful fall on a progressive popes determined journey. five years after his election, the pew research center finds the pope is very popular among american catholics. even with high approval ratings he has detractions. >> i recognize my point of...