they ve tried in the past and have not been able to recall mayors there. they have the 81% saying he should resign, 72% say they would sign the recall petition if they put one before them and on sunday those are out, so we ll see how they load them up. see how it goes. i think they will be able to get their 100,000. all right. coming up next, pope francis takes on the vatican. this could be a knock down, drag out to the end. why change for the catholic church is not going to come easy. the new republic s frank forejoins us coming up next. the secret is out. hydration is in.
saying don t come to the vatican, give the money to the poor in your home country. symbolically the guy is exhilarating. traded in his armored mercedes suv for a ford for cuss. he s based himself with the poor. and when it comes to some of these social issues, especially gays, he s been he said things that are downright revolutionary in rhetoric. the question is, will this rhetoric, revolutionary rhetoric, translate into the deeper changes that people think are not just necessary for the church s survival but would be great moral goods. and on those, on the question of where the rubber meets the road you have these big questions damon draws out in the piece. in some ways francis is like obama. he s come in with all this great hope. seen as a transformational figure. there s all these expectations. but will those expectations
to the editor of the new republic frank. the new issue takes a look at pope francis versus the vatican. the cover story reads in part, francis renewed emphasis on the poor is welcomed and valuable and there are circumscribed areas the pope may achieve real reform. when prose gressive catholics pine for change, they mostly mean they want to see the church brought into the ethos of modern liberalism, including its embrace of gay rights, sexual freedom and gender quality. and that simply isn t going to happen. to hope or expect otherwise is to misread this pope misinterpret the las vegas gasy of his pred ses tors and misunderstand the callsy fide structure of the church itself. the pope mindful of money telling admirers from argentina,
translate too reality? he s confronting a bureaucracy and an organization that is in some ways as athem intocle to change as the u.s. congress. there s another example that damon brings out on holy thursday pope francis watched the feet of two women in juvenile detention, one a muslim breaking from the tradition that restricts the ritual to men and mostly to priests in the vatican entourage. lot of people will look at things like that and other things he s doing, what he said on the plane about, you know, not judging other people, that or trying to find god. that actually when you look at that is symbolic but it is powerful symbolism for a billion people in a church that actually, if this guy were a priest in argentina, that would be one thing. but how he lives, what he says, has a real impact in the direction of the church. absolutely.