in fact, the first papal visit took place in october of 1965 when pope paul vi visited. he gave a mass and visited with children. >> i thank you for the flowers all your presents and i know that you are good children. are you good? certainly. and i give you my best wishes and my blessing. >> reporter: it would be 14 years before another pope visited the united states when john paul ii made the first of seven trips here. anchor dennis richmond began our coverage of the pope's arrival in the united states on october 1, 1979. >> reporter: several hundred dignitaries are at hand with a mass that over 1 million people are supposed to attend. porter attended for president carter. tip o'neil bowed to kiss the pope's king as did ted kennedy. after mr. carter's brief welcome, the pope ended with an apology for not being able to greet with everyone. and ended with the singing of the national anthem. >> it is not possible for me to enter into every home. to greet personally every man and woman, to caress every child in who's eyes is reflected the innocence of life, still i feel clo

you know, what the pope -- what paul vi said, jesus only ordains maryellen -- ordains male priests. no one was a priest then. there were women leaders, very high leaders. paul talks about one as an apostle. he was talkedded about one as his coworker,s same he said of timothy and titus and others, and the original agape meals were in households. paul address the households. household church was the original church, and the hostess there was the presider. she was not a priest because there were no priests, but as time went on, the general prejudices of the society insected the church, and they are hanging on to them longer than others because the church now pretends to be changeless. once a bad idea gets in, even if it's from a fairly acceptable thing at the time, it's very hard to extrude it, you know, because of the church. they claim they never change. people said, well, should we have women priests? i hope not. i don't want priests. i want women leaders. we are getting them. in my church that i've been going to for 33 years, it's a campus church at northwestern university, and as a

in fact, the first papal visit took place in october of 1965 when pope paul vi visited. he gave a mass and visited with children. >> i thank you for the flowers all your presents and i know that you are good children. are you good? certainly. and i give you my best wishes and my blessing. >> reporter: it would be 14 years before another pope visited the united states when john paul ii made the first of seven trips here. anchor dennis richmond began our coverage of the pope's arrival in the united states on october 1, 1979. >> reporter: several hundred dignitaries are at hand with a mass that over 1 million people are supposed to attend. porter attended for president carter. tip o'neil bowed to kiss the pope's king as did ted kennedy. after mr. carter's brief welcome, the pope ended with an apology for not being able to greet with everyone. and ended with the singing of the national anthem. >> it is not possible for me to enter into every home. to greet personally every man and woman, to caress every child in who's eyes is reflected the innocence of life, still i feel clo

in fact you can see echos this began with paul vi whose ring the pope chooses to ring, the fisherman's reign of paul vi. >> and we've heard from religious leaders who talk about the fact that he opened the cathedral there for interfaith services. chief rabbi has spoken glowingly of him. he believes in reaching out to people all faiths and it will be interesting to see the impact he has in that area. but again, visible signs with representatives from so much different changes around the world as well as governments around the world. >> he gives to christ the kiss of peace. the altar comes from the jewish beginnings, the incense recalls the offers of the incense in rome, the sweetness which rises up to god, which carries our prayers from earth to heaven. >> and in another sign of his commitment to the poor, pope francis asked that people not travel great distances but instead take that money and particularly folks from latin america, from his argentina, he said take that money and give to the poor, but you see the huge crowds that have turn itted out. i understand that there had been peo

paul vi was the last to be carried around on a throne and have a coronation. soon after he realized it wasn't a correct image. he took the tiara. he put it on the altar. i won't wear it. sell it and give the money to the poor. that was the last time we had a papal throne in coronation. john i said no throne and no coronation. >> we have sister mary ann walsh. i ag

many of them attended today's meeting in paul vi's hall at the vatican.e wanted the catholic church to focus on serving the needs of the poor. he explained he chose the name pope francis after st. francis of assisi, a symbol of service to the poor. pope francis spent a private moment in prayer. the vatican reap leasing this video of the pontiff praying. he is also expected to travel to meet his predecessor, the pope emeritus, next saturday. >>> today marks an extremely painful day for the family of missing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. exactly one year ago on a friday morning the 15-year-old vanished while on her way to school. since then, a core group of about 40 volunteers have searched for her every saturday. they never met sierra but say her disappearance deeply affected them. they say not a day goes by that they don't think about her and her family. >> i know they're hurting and just anytime -- ill don't know, i could be sitting there and she'll pop into my head and i just wonder where is she. >> lamar's father says it is support from all the vo

learned that pope francis will put on a fisherman's ring during the mass that once belonged to pope paul vi and the code of arms will be simple. earlier he met with the president of argentina, which might have been a little awkward since the two clashed over the president's socially liberal policies when the pope was archbishop of buenos aires. joe biden will lead the delegation tomorrow. house democratic leader nancy pelosi is also a member of the delegation along with a bipartisan group of nine leaders that includes anna eshew biden is the first roman catholic of the united states. today he's meeting with leaders in italy. we'll go live to rome in a few minutes for more on the ceremony. >>> police officers are fan out all over southern california and look they will be looking for drivers as they are texting as they drive or talking while holding cell phones. new statewide numbers show more than 425,000 tickets were passed out for people using their phones as they drive. in 2011, more than 4300 people were killed in crashes that were blamed on distracted driver. if you get a ticket, it can

learned that pope francis will put on a fisherman's ring during the mass that once belonged to pope paul vi and the code of arms will be simple. earlier he met with the president of argentina, which might have been a little awkward since the two clashed over the president's socially liberal policies when the pope was archbishop of buenos aires. joe biden will lead the delegation tomorrow. house democratic leader nancy pelosi is also a member of the delegation along with a bipartisan group of nine leaders that includes anna eshew biden is the first roman catholic of the united states. today he's meeting with leaders in italy. we'll go live to rome in a few minutes for more on the ceremony. >>> police officers are fan out all over southern california and look they will be looking for drivers as they are texting as they drive or talking while holding cell phones. new statewide numbers show more than 425,000 tickets were passed out for people using their phones as they drive. in 2011, more than 4300 people were killed in crashes that were blamed on distracted driver. if you get a ticket, it can

i thought he looked so much like pope paul vi and thought i'm having a flashback. >> 35% of catholics are latino. i started with my catholic church teachings in spanish harlem. >> the most booming part of the church. thank you very much. more on this surprise announcement, including whether it had a divine effect on what i'm about to show you. the dow jones industrial average posing the seventh straight record, the longest streak in 26 years. the dow has had nine straight up sessions, the longest winning streak in more than 16 years. if this is inspired by the pope, i would be shocked but i'm not here to question anything that happens from the guy upstairs. is. >> neil: at first the smoke looked dark and we thought we would have a sixth vote would have happened tomorrow. then the smoke wasn't dark, it was white, indicating the 115 cardinals gathered in the room blow, the sistine chapel, had agreed on a man to carry the work of st. peter in the eyes of the catholic, the first vicar of the church honoring jesus christ. this is his 2 66th successor. cardinal jorge mario bergoglio who has

this particular ring is a recycled ring from the secretary of paul vi who had passed it down. it is gold-plated. it is a silver ring. again, simple. it has the image of peter with the keon that ring and this is the ring that is like the fisher man's ring of paul because peter was a fisherman. >> let's take a brief moment to hear. >> saint mary. ♪ ♪ >> saint john the baptist. ♪ >> saint mike michael. ♪ >> saint joseph. ♪ >> hero christ. for francis, supreme pontiff, who gather us into one, all people, through doctrine, and charity, that there be grace for the shepherd and obedience for the flock. savior of the world, come. and here. st. paul. saint andrew. saint john. >> they are now processing out of st. peter's basilica right there. pope francis has presumably received the pallium and the fisher man's ring. they were retrieved from on top of saint peter's tom. john allen, is that correct? is he now in possession of these? >> yes, that's -- yes. they are being carried in procession and what is going to happen shortly, once this procession ends and pope francis has taken his pl

it was given by paul vi -- >> still a recycled ring.g the rings and probably pope francis won't want them to anymore, john. he'll want to use them. another important piece of video, communion, central part of the catholic mass. also of big symbolic importance for pope francis, whose message is a return to the simple spirituality that is the religion of christ. and here what we're seeing, as he offers up the liturgy of the eucharist, is his taking bread and wine and making them transubstantiating them into the body and blood of christ. which for catholics is the real deal, this is the most important part of the ritual. >> feed my sheep, feed my lamb. >> of course, right here -- >> we're not expecting the pope to distribute communion, but he did. but to a specific group of people. he did not go out to the masses and distribute communion. why was that? >> obviously everybody would have wanted to go to him. it would be very taxing on him, too. and i think it's a way of extending the ministry. you go now, feed my sheep, feed my lambs, too. i

they met in the sinnod room in the pope paul vi auditorium.ey learned how the translation machines work. they have devices at each seat that allows them to vote electronically. they learned how that went. there was a prayer this morning and there was a welcoming address from cardinal angelo sedano who is the dean of the college of cardinals. so then they had a coffee break this morning and we understand from chicago's cardinal george and washington, d.c.'s cardinal that that was essentially a getting to know you period. you've got to remember that almost 60% of these cardinals have been elevated just in the last eight years. so they don't know each other well. so they're trying to meet everybody, take a sense of their brother cardinals and as they deal with the issues of the church. that is what these congregations are about at this point is what is the state of the catholic church and what are the issues that need to be dealt with? and then they start looking for the next pope. chris. >> speaking of the issues that need to be dealt with, last

joseph ratzinger went into the conclave leading, pope paul vi as well, and people were talking about him. that doesn't seem to historically be true. >> it's cute and gets us off the hook for these wild predictions that don't turn out to be true. but he's absolutely right. if you look at the conclaves of the 20th century, half the times the guy who was identified as the front-runner actually got elected. the problem, anderson, this time, there is no front-runner. >> that's what makes it so interesting this time, i think. >> i think it says more to if you enter pope, if you talk about yourself as pope, if you seem to be politicizing it or politicking yourself, it's seen as a negative. if you do that, it's like the kiss of death, as far as they're concerned. >> yet it's interesting, you see cardinal dolan literally kissing babies and getting a huge amount of attention. is that viewed negatively? >> i don't think so for him, because it seemed like this big personality that even before there was talk of him as pope, that's just who the guy is. he doesn't restrain it. i was at the church y

that the next leader of the catholic church has something of john the xxiii in him and the birth of paul vi and the role of women in the churnl. lots needs to be done. god bless our next pope. god bless the decision on how to pick him. and that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. >>> good evening, americans. and welcome to "the ed show" from new york. the beltway media is focused on the wrong threat. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> it makes me very uncomfortable to have the white house telling reporters you're going to regret doing something that you believe in. >> a legendary reporter whines about the white house, only to be exposed by his own e-mail. but the facts don't matter to the right-wing media. >> he's continued on saying, you know, ronald reagan wouldn't have done these kind of threats and creating armageddon like president obama has. >> tonight, former congressman barney frank, david corn of "mother jones," and michael thomasky on why bob woodward's embarrassment is a symptom of a much larger problem. >>> a vote on women's rights forces a republican civil

that isn't always true since paul vi was a front-runner as was pope benedict.went in and it was expected they would become pope and they did. however, it is tab yours to campaign for one's self. he gave an interview to telegraph in the uk and speculated on a question from the journalist, what would it be like. he said it would change my life. it would be hard. people didn't like the fact he speculated about it. nothing to do with the posters. some of the controversy around it could hurt him. >> the interview, that's interesting, more than the posters would hurt him. are there other no nos for someone who might be next pope. >> cardinals try not to go on the record with any statement about faith or morals that seem to contradict or too far left because those come back to haunt them. they should stay away from economy communities controversial. >> tomorrow, father, cardinals are supposed to start meeting. ultimately they have to set a date for the conclave. do we have a sense of when that will happen? >> the general conclave begins tomorrow. it's expected they wi

this is the hall of paul vi and that man you see at the center of that stage is pope francis, of course. and today he is meeting with more than 5,000 journalists. these are journalists who have covered the conclave meetings, those that he wants to speak out to and talk about, perhaps the direction of the church. we're not clear on the extent to which he will answer questions or the content of what he will be willing to put forth. for all the faithful around the world that are going to be listening to trying to get a sense of the direction in which he plans to go and take this church. what we do know already about this man is he is a man who is very humble, he's a jesuit priest and again the first jesuit to ever be elected pope. pope francis will be taking to that microphone shortly. but at the moment let's listen right now. we have a italian interpreter here who will be listening and helping us through all of this. so let's take a listen right now in to -- into what is being said although i can't say -- this is spanish, of course, this is a pope who's from argentina. so, though he is th

the lawsuit was found after the publication of the book, "the silence: from paul vi to bergoglio, thecret relations between the church and esma." esma refers to the former navy school that was turned into a detention center where people were tortured by the military dictatorship. the new pope has denied the charges. he twice invoked his right under argentine law to refuse to appear in open court to testify about the allegations. when he did testify in 2010, human rights activists characterized his answers as evasive. >> horacio verbitsky joins us on the phone from his home in buenos aires. he is an investigative journalist for the newspaper pagina dolce, page 12 and english. he is the head of the center for legal and social studies, an argentine human rights organization. we welcome you to "democracy now!" i want you to lay out for us what you believe is important to understand about the new pope, pope francis. >> the main thing to understand about pope francis the first is that he is a conservative populist in the same style that john paul ii was. strong man of , but withve decisions

i was living in rome teaching at the north american college when paul vi was elected. didates were living with us. i listened to the consulate breakfast, lunch and supper throughout the day. and john paul i and ii, i was the judge of the rhoda, the supreme court of the catholic church. and for hundreds and hundreds of years, judges were asuned -- there were 14 of us, to guard the cardinals in the conclave. i wish you could have seen us. some of us were to thorring at 75 and so forth. not great guards. >> were they trying to escape or something? >> to see if others didn't come in. we each had a door. i was assigned a door for both of those conclaves. you remember this extra almness. let everyone leave. most who are to leave is the 14 judges that did the guarding. we leave along with a doctor and a few others. so that's three. and then i was a voter and an election for ate during the election, the conclave for benedict xvi, and i just came back from rome. and i said good-bye to pope benedict, and he told me i was to come back and tell new york how grateful he was for perh

i was mentioning to you earlier that it was paul vi who famously, we used to have a coronation and thewas crowned and carried around on a throne. he took the crown off, put it on the altar, and said i'm done with this. sell it and give the money to the poor. and that was the last time a crown and that throne was used. john paul i when he was elected? no crown. no throne. the image of the pope, the papacy shifted from a coronation of a king, who used to rule papal states, remember, to a spiritual leader who was a vehicle to god and to people. >> but you have your big blocs, africa, south america, poverty is hard. to hear about the money not being used wisely is unacceptable. okay you want to put celibacy to the side, okay, let's do women priests to the side, okay. but you're wasting the money. you know the church has to deal with the poor. we must do better. the urgency of no half measures. no double-speak. aren't we at that point for the catholic church? >> i think we certainly are. and i think, actually, you referred a striking number of cardinals in the run-up to this conclave sound

which has more voting cardinals than any other country and he's archbishop of milan, which was pope paul vi'sn. another in the running, odilo pedro. his credentials, respected for his piety, leads the largest diocese in the largest catholic country and relatively young at 63 years old. not to mention he has german ancestry which may comfort the 61 europeans voting. but in an odd twist, if neither can garner the required two-thirds majority, the cardinals may see it as a sign neither is god's choice and drop both. just like the conclave did in 1978 when pope john paul ii emerged as the surprise choice. that opens the door to someone like canadian mark ulay. he's head of who decides the bishop. he also has ties to south america, which makes him a uniter of the old and new church. this scenario is what fuels the prospect of an american pope. to be sure, this is the first time americans have even been mentioned. the two big names, boston archbishop sean o'malley, known as taking a hard line on addressing the sex abuse scandal. and new york archbishop timothy dolan. a unique combination of church