it faced skeptics who thought it could never improve on the british original starring ricky gervais. whether the show could survive the loss of star steve carell. but it has thrived. is it tough to call it quits on a show? >> "the office" ending really came from us going to the producers and saying, you know what? it's time to end this thing. let's do one final season, let's make it great, let's have a big finale and let's do it right. i love the people there so much. it is such a great family. and at the same time, it was time for it to go away. recently the cast and crew threw a giant rap party and soaked up a victory lap in the pennsylvania town the paper company called home. thousands came to bid them farewell. >> yeah! i feel like the beatles! >> reporter: but wilson is now using his office fame to support fellow members of his faith, ones who are being persecuted. >> they believe that there is only one god and that all religions are in harmony. it is a beautiful faith. i grew up in it. >> reporter: he came to washington to raise awareness about seven volunteer leaders who have

>> probably ricky gervais does, yeah. he's one of those, like, a doubter.tive proselytizing atheist. >> he is aggressively atheist. >> that is okay. i respect his beliefs. >> he doesn't respect yours though. that's okay. i thank him for creating "the office." i wouldn't have a job without it. >> is there going to be a wedding? >> there is going to be a wedding in the last episode. >> can you tell me who is getting married? >> toby and -- >> this is not going to be an accurate answer. >> oscar. i don't -- i can't reveal that. come on. >> you sound really at piece and centered and not very much like a lot of actors i've met. is this because you're behai? >> my faith grounds me and centers me and gives me focus and purpose and i'm very grateful for that. maybe i'll just always be known as dwight and that's great. i'm totally fine with that. i'm a good actor. i know there is a lot of other work out there for me and a lot of fulfilling other stuff. this is just how i'm feeling right now. talk to me tomorrow and i could be pulling my hair out and going, damn core

maybe like all thinking people, the pope is a ricky gervais fan. is secretly following ricky on twitter, where their british athiest has almost twice as many followers as the pope. and if that doesn't prove that twitter is the devil's playground, i don't know what does. in his weekly radio address, the pope got all performance arty and inserted an imaginary athiest in a dialogue with the pope. the pope said, this commandment for everyone to do good, i think, is a beautiful path toward peace. if we each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter. we need that so much. we must meet one another doing good. and here's where the pope inserts the imaginary atheist, whose line is, but i don't believe, father. i am an atheist! to which, the pope says, but do good. we will meet one another there. which is a very big improvement on, you will burn in hell forever, which was the official catholic position for the first half of the 20th century. re