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Year? how important is it this year? >> i think it's really important you know. the church really needs some direction, and i think that this is going to be the year. >> what is your feeling? how great are your hopes, how high are your expectations right now? >> well, i think that right now, we're kind of just going to see. but i think that the cardinals will make a good choice. my host mom here is rooting for card until o'malley from boston. >> all right. we'll see. host mom gets a vote. if she does, chris, it's o'malley apparently. this place is getting jam packed. back to you guys. >> archb...

Future of the church. carol, i want to bring in john allen, our senior vatican analyst. as exciting as it is for us as americans, to talk about americans being in it for pope is not completely farfetched, true? >> that's the novelty for 2013. for the very first time it's plausible to think we might get an american pope. the old taboo used to think you can't have a superpower pope. but we live in a different world in the 21st century. america is no longer the only superpower and we have guys striking a number of other cardinals as possible popes. >> reporter: it's difficult to explain unlike tr...