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celebrating mass in 30 minutes to celebrate the new pope, mario jorge bergoglio. they are ecstatic that a latin-american pope is one of their own. here are the heedhead lines here. miami herald, new world pope and in spanish, please pray for me. so down here in south florida, the catholics are veriy eies ca tick. joy use. 1.2 billion catholics in the world. 41% of them are from latin america. here miami-dade county at least 50% of residents are also from latin america. so it s a very diverse community. last night many catholics went straight from work to mass to celebrate and to pray for the new pope, pope francis. they are hoping that he will bring about change. they say that the word catholic in latin means universal. even though he does come from argentina, they say that he is the pope for all the world.
i think we want to move forward. hopefully make some good changes. hopefully, he ll be similar to john paul ii in some ways and being progressive. so, we ll just have to wait and see. reporter: bergoglio is the 266th bishop of rome. leader of the world s 1.2 billion catholics. but to many, he s known simply, father jorge. jim bitterman, cnn, rome. vice president joe biden, the first roman catholic vice president, will lead the u.s. delegation to pope francis formal installation next week. president obama said the e selection of the first latin american pope spoke to the region that is increasingly shape our world. the news seemed to energize american catholics. i ran to work. i had to come to the church. i work a couple of blocks down. i have to come to the church and thank god that we have this
word, not a sound. the prayer, he said, was for him, to help him in his new role. 100,000 people, probably more, and there s silence. i know. i know. definitely. i think it s just here in the moment, you wanted that one curtain to drop and see who it was. reporter: for his fellow or t general tynes it s no a. moment for him and his country. he doesn t use car. he used the metro, the subway. he doesn t like to be call himself monsignor, his excellence. just jorge, mario. maximum, you can call him is father. reporter: a humble man about to embark on an extraordinary journey. perhaps the most telling moment of the night was when this humble man came back out on to the balcony almost sheepishly
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