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Statements he made which some thought were insensitive or didn't go far enough. as you look to 2014, what are you looking for from this pope? >> i think that is the biggest thing, but i think catholics across the world, how do you deal with the sex abuse crisis all over the world? he's promised to establish a commission to study this, and we have written him and asked him to make victims of clergy sexual abuse are put on the committee, because the u.s. conference had promised the same thing? >> so we're asking him to put clergy sex abuse victims on the commission he's establishing. if he does ...

Conversation about economic justice. looking towards 2014, i'm excited about the october meeting of bishops. you know, pope francis has decried trickle down economics. what we need is a little bit of trickle down transformation. here in the u.s. bishops are still firing church workers and catholic schoolteachers for being gay or being pregnant. they're still wasting political capital, to go to e.j.'s point on abortion and contraception, anti-gay advocacy. they're still living kind of these extraordinarily lavish lifestyles as we saw in newark recently. so there's a lot of change still to come....

It's been a long time. >> all the way back to pope john xxiii when i was a kid. i think one of the things he's made cool is simplicity. the name francis, he's gotten rid of a lot of the regalacy. there were jokes that the lacy tunics are not on sale on steep discounts on ebay, because he has set a simple tone. i think that's important, but i also think the shift in priorities are important. he has pulled the church back from culture war issues. head said for the church to -- was wrong, and he has clearly shifted the focus of the papacy, and i think the attention of a lot of catholics to issues...

He's pouring water on the seeds of transformation. catholics in the pews have been planting for years. before this pope we were going through a bit of a drought. it's an exciting time. to respond to cardinal dolan, tone is really important here, and we're seeing the tonal shift impact policies, maybe not church policy, but political and other policies across the world. >> well, e.j., you wrote about this, and your description was he has not altered church doctrine, but shift in emphasis has been breathtaking. really, you think it's been breathtaking? >> i do think it is. first of all, did you ...