well. chris. hey, anderson. we re watching the mass here. obviously people are following along. they ve been speaking in latin right now for the prayers, also in spanish. there was the description of father junipero serra, a priest was recounting the good works that the missionary did out in california building nine missions. he also took time to discuss a sensitivity to the culture. remember this is a controversial subject for many native american groups 50 tribes bound together to resist the canonization of serra. so the priest in that part of the ceremony took time to reflect on serra s care and concern for the people that he was made missionary for. the big part of this ceremony will also be a relic of junipero serra, which is literally a piece of his body that is brought up as part of the process of making him a saint. delia gallagher, you said
replaced and renewed, that he put in an oversight board. cardinal george pell on the economic sec tart from australia who is a kind of outsider he brought him in. so he is trying to make some important changes there that are still going on. we re going to take a short break before this mass begins. we ll be right back.
that s representative of who this man is. yeah. we have not had a pope from a religious order since the mid 19th century. this is unique in our era. and remember they are missionary order. they go beyond their comfort zone. they go beyond what s familiar. and that s what he wants the church to do. he doesn t want the church to be self-preferential. he wants it to go out. i love that image he uses of the church as a field hospital. the way in which he preaches through symbol recognizing symbol is often more powerful than any words he s going to say. so i think we re going to see a lot of his training and formation come alive in this visit as i think we already have. one of the things i read he d said a while back is describing pastors as shepherds who in his words smell of the sheep, which i thought was really interesting way of putting it that sense of being out there where the people are. i ll never forget when he said that at st. peters it was really a mass where priests recogn
senior analyst, delia gallagher. father in terms of what we should expect and what viewers should expect to see over the next hour or so can you just explain what s going to happen? it s going to be a very familiar mass to many catholics. at the beginning though there s going to be the rite of canonization. it s not very long but it s in a sense a ritual that proclaims junipero serra a saint. and so people will be very familiar with the mass as we watch it but it takes on a very festive quality because it s mass with the pope. so you re going to see a great deal of exuberance particularly in those who are attending and con concelebrating. just the welcome that the pope received i mean i ve never seen such excitement among priests and nuns. i mean i ve been obviously in st. peters square and seen some of that but it was just an extraordinary welcome. well he s a superstar, there s no question about it. but i think we realize that pope doesn t really mean much to us.
he s also going to be meeting the pope will actually be meeting after mass with whom? yeah. i think in response and as a sign of his sensitivity to this issue, he is meeting with 20 representatives of the california native american population. so he ll have a chance to spend a bit of time with them and perhaps listen to some of their concerns. father kesicki, just for our viewers who have not been to mass before or following along at home what happens over the next several minutes? right now we re hearing the litany of the saints. and this is invoking the name of many saints going back from the earliest days of the church to the present. we re going to hear some saints from the americas st. catharine drexel st. elizabeth anne seaton the first american saint. we ll hear a native american