pope francis arrived in cuba today days before his first trip over to the u.s. earlier today i spoke to vatican correspondent, david willie, author of the new book the promise of pope francis. david, thank you for being here. i read your book the promise of francis. in your book you talk about the man, the pope and the challenge of change. this pope, is certainly moving the catholic church in a completely different direction, is he not? he s moving the church in a different direction from prior papp pappass. he s not going to change the doctrine but stresses the importance of not obeying rules blindly but showing a merciful
pope francis arrived in cuba today days before his first trip over to the u.s. earlier today i spoke to vatican correspondent, david willie, author of the new book the promise of pope francis. david, thank you for being here. i read your book the promise of francis. in your book you talk about the man, the pope and the challenge of change. this pope, is certainly moving the catholic church in a completely different direction, is he not? he s moving the church in a different direction from prior papp pappass. he s not going to change the doctrine but stresses the importance of not obeying rules blindly but showing a merciful
civil war, are the seat of ancient christian communities, wiped out by civil war. he s very worried indeed. this is one of his priorities to maintain the christian presence in the land where jesus christ lived and died. all right, david, fascinating book. it will be a fascinating week next week when the pope is here. thanks so much for being with us from rome. my pleasure. we ll be right back with our instapoll results. here at td ameritrade, they love innovating. and apparently, they also love stickers. what s up with these things, victor? we decided to give ourselves stickers for each feature we release. we read about 10,000 suggestions a week to create features that as traders we d want to use, like social signals, a tool that uses social media to help with research.
civil war, are the seat of ancient christian communities, wiped out by civil war. he s very worried indeed. this is one of his priorities to maintain the christian presence in the land where jesus christ lived and died. all right, david, fascinating book. it will be a fascinating week next week when the pope is here. thanks so much for being with us from rome. my pleasure. we ll be right back with our instapoll results. oh, look. we have a bunch of.
hundreds of lives lost in a sea of mud. brazil strugs to cope with own of its worst natural disasters ever. just look at the size of that tree. this place is now completely cut off from the rest of the country. welcome to g.m.t., i m steven sacker with the world of news and opinion. also in the program, growing unrest in tunisia. thousands protest demanding the immediate resignation of the president. and they say pope john paul ii is to be in may. it s midday here in london. and in rio they re counting the human cost of catastrophic floods and mudslides in towns and remote villages. while funerals are held for those killed, the search continues for many more still missing. brazil s president called the destruction an act of god. but she s also blamed illegal building in mountain areas for endanger lives. we report for one of the worst affected towns. the desperate search for survivors continues into mountains. it goes on despite the hopelessness of the cause. this wom