. >> let's bring in the conversation father thomas reese. i want to ask you about this disconnect.bviously we are seeing play out there in washington state right now. the students and the administrators are totally on opposite end of the spectrum on that. this is not just happening there, we are eying it with a lot of youth right now that are in catholic schools, aren't we? >> there is no question about it. if you look at the polling data of young people, the overwhelming support, like 70% of young millennials are in favor of gay marriage. there is a tsunami of young people coming. and as they age and the older people die, the support for gay marriage is going to be overwhelming in this country. and it's going become de facto. it's going to become law in more and more states. so this is, you know, on the horizon. >> isn't the catholic church very concerned about trying to keep people in the p even ws. a anybody of churches have had problems doing that, the numbers are kind of flat or going down in some areas as a matter of fact. when you have young people dissolutioned how do you e

to the tough issues like the scandal over priest abuse in the view of religious writer father thomas reeseost difficult thing there that the church still hasn't grappled with is how to deal with bishops that simply aren't on board, aren't reporting these crimes or aren't dismissing these priests from ministry those bishops have to be held accountable. >> reporter: one of pope francis' biggest challenges will be reforming the curia, the church government. as one veteran vatican watcher put it, he's got to change it from being like something out of the middle ages into a modern civil service. francis is unlikely to tamper with basic doctrine on core issues such as abortion or female priests, but his "who am i to judge" comment about gays flagged an unusual open mindedness. "rolling stone" headlined its francis story "the times, they are a-changing." the first news of superpope came on the vatican's twitter feed. allen pizzey, cbs news, vatican city. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all >>> your realtime captioner is mrs. linda marie macdonal

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