tonight, the fourth most powerful man in the world resigns. pope benedict xvi surprised many of his 1.2 billion fall ors worldwide when he said he was going to step down at the end of the month, and the reason, his age. nearly one in four americans identifies as catholic. according to the church, the catholic population worldwide has about 15 million members in 2010. the latest year for which there was data. about 17% of the planet is catholic. now, a church is believed to be the third largest landowner in the world, so it s hard to estimate what the church owns and what it s worth. economists estimate annual spending just by the united states by the catholic church and its entities was about $170 billion in one year, 2010. sister simone campbell is the executive director of the national catholic justice lobby. brian finny worked for opus dei. scary guys. let me start with you, sister simone. i wart to start with a serious issue. $3.3 billion has been paid out by the church i
previous tests. officials have confirmed seismic activity in north korea. south korea says it detected what it called an artificial earthquake north of its border. the tremor, though, was different from what you might consider to be a normal earthquake. no further information at this stage is known. there s no official confirmation coming from anyone, least of all from pyongyang. north korea as we ve been telling you, widely expecting to carry out this nuclear test any day now. pyongyang is expecting to stage a high intensity we have anna koran standing by in seoul, south korea, we also have alex in tokyo. let s go to anna koran, who is in seoul for us right now. anna, you re on military maneuvers just a few days ago, with the south koreans and u.s. military there. there is a great deal of preparation in south korea for this event. essentially, given what s happened, what can the south koreans do right now? as we discussed yesterday, this is very much a waiting game. the