let's get more insight now on the new pope from cnn contributor raymond arroyo, joining us from washingtonod to see you. >> great to see you, fredricka. >> okay, so pope francis he's been breaking with tradition from the very start. why should today be any different for him? >> well, you know, it's more of the same really. the unexpected quality of this pope continues to amaze even referenced one of his homilys the other day, the surprises god gives us we have to sort of embrace us and we in the media have to have this same approach with the pope. it's beautiful in one way to see him engaging so directly with people. i think it's refreshing and uplifting to many. and it cuts clear through the media coverage of this and i think draws people to him and his message, so he clearly knows what he's doing on one level, and that beautiful shot you're showing now where he picked up that very disabled child and -- >> what a moment. >> it's beautiful and the affection. remember during the inaugural mass there was another moment like this where he got out of the popemobile and embraced another severel

"out front" tonight in rome, our vatican expert and contributor raymond arroyo. through the rest of pope francis' first day. we are learning so much about this man. >> we are, indeed. i spoke to some security officials at the vatican. they say he has been escaping us all day long. he does his own thing, erin. i had a friend of mine that walked into the house where all the cardinals were living and where the pope is now residing while they renovate the papal palace, and he came down the elevator himself. he walked out, no entourage, no secretaries. he greeted the man by name and embraced him. they talked a little bit. he said it was very easy. and so he's kind of setting his own path here. and as pope, he can do that. and let me tell you, in the days ahead, he's going to have to set his own path. it will take that to fix what ails the vatican at this moment. >> we heard amazing things about generosity, how humble he is, washing the feet of men who had aids. but he also faced some challenges as the leader of the jesuits in argentina. today we're learning about seri

"outfront," our vatican expert, raymond arroyo.. >> great to see you. >> it doesn't appear there's a front-runner in the conclave. so behind the scenes right now, all of the politicking that can't be called politicking is going on, right? >> reporter: it is indeed, erin. remember i had my horse analogy earlier. you don't talk to the horse. you talk to the people around the horse. that's what's been going on. if this is a horse race, there is no secretariat running in this derby. there are no breakout candidates, but i keep hearing a number of candidates mentioned, but it's three, four or five. that's rarely a good sign. the other thing, in 2005, you had sort of whips, cardinals who were attracting votes and trying to build coalitions. i can't find too many of those cardinals this time out. it's really an odd time. very different from the last conclave. >> which i guess in some ways makes it even more exciting. we have also heard that because of this, that there is no secretariat in the running, as you say. that the next pope might

. >> we're also joined by raymond arroyo, who is the news director for the eternal word television networkthank you so much for being with us this morning. >> delighted to be here. >> it's been a remarkable morning so far. and i want to get a sense of what struck you. >> the thing that strikes me most, i was there yesterday. and when the pope came out of that little mass at santa ana, still the parish church of the vatican, to watch those crowds just see the expression on their faces, it was -- you wouldn't have seen justin bieber get this kind of reaction. people went crazy for him. and he seems to genuinely love that personal touch. and it is not -- it is a marked departure from what we saw earlier. it reminds me an awful lot of john paul ii. people do much the same thing. >> can we listen in here a little bit? i think this is the second reading, now in spanish. >> translator: the promise of inheriting the world was not made to abraham and his descendants on account of any law. but on account of the righteousness which consists in faith. that is why what fulfills the promise depends on f

i'm with raymond arroyo from ewtn here.iscussing as people were walking past what this really means for the church. >> well, look, for the latins, this is such a moment. 46% of the church is in latin america, becky. and they were so underrepresented, so many of these cardinal electors, the ones from latin america, argentina, colombia, mexico, throughout last week they told me, look, we need a pope who will respond and understand latin america is here, and this church must be addressed. this was clearly, if i had to guess, and i'm only guessing, the latin bloc here, those 19 voters, probably swang to bergoglio because he was an argentinean and yet he's got italian roots. he plays to the hometown crowd. >> people are streaming past us here. they were tens of thousands if not 100,000 or so people just behind us there at vatican city. those we have spoken to since they have been walking past have almost to man and woman said this is good news for the church. they like the idea, even though many of them actually didn't know who