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Benedict the xvi resigned, he took a trip. people did not know it at the time but that may have been a signal because a year and a half later, he too would resign. >> but despite the peace which celestine the v resigned. . the new pope must make sure that celestine is never heard from again. >> after celestine retires, he felt it was dangerous to ve two living popes. >> you cannot have another pope knocking about and threatening the other pope. immediately after celestine

Church. we've heard from noncatholics saying they are excited about this new pope. he's a pope for the whole world. >> reporter: they also say that pope francis brings to the catholic church a charisma they have not seen since john paul paul the ii. alisyn: how you are the vatican officials feeling when he breaks with tradition like this. >> reporter: the church has gone through a lot in the last few decades. you have the costly sex-abuse scandals, the vatican government very corrupted. and pope benedict the xvi resigned. francis' hum pwhrer style and latin roots are breaking with tradition an...

That he can go home soon because, as he told one of our producers, he is running out of clean socks. now, really, the real action here begins tuesday morning when the cardinals will be moving into the special residence where they will be staying during the conclave. in the morning on tuesday they will also be holding special prayers for the leeks of a new pope and in the afternoon, they will file into the sistine chapel for the first and only round of voting. that day vatican watchers do not expect them to come up with the white smoke on tuesday afternoon. some saying that it could be a somewh...

Steve colbert had some thoughts about the hoopla over the snowstorm in washington this week. the one here in d.c. and how it somehow got lumped in with talk about spending cuts. >> they're calling it the snowquester. >> snowquester. >> the snowquester. >> snowiester. >> they're calling it snowquester which i think is great. isn't that cute? >> of course, the word snowquester is a combination of snow and the sequester. i think we should name all of our weather events after what kind they are plus whatever people are talking about on television at the time. today washington is blanketed in the s...

Those shoes as any one of us would be, and, you know, he's not attached to the trappings. i know him, not to say that on some priests and bishops their popes might be attached to those things, it can happen, everyone is different. but pope benedict the xvi, that's not his style. his style is very much low key. but he recognizes that symbols matter, that they do mean something, and for example, the ring that you brought up, jenna, that ring is called the fisherman's ring, right, remember jesus who called st. peter and the disciples no longer to be fishermen but to be fisher of men. that ring th...