a republican from idaho, also a republican and interested in seeing how this goes. sir, as you've been watching this and watching the coverage, as you are aware, catholics make up the second largest religious demographic in congress. what do you think, and what are your expectations of the new pope? >> well, a lot of us catholics are kind of amused at the media coverage of this. you know, you cover this as if it's a sporting event or, worse yet, a political convention. look, this has been going on for 2,000 years and we talk about what country they'll come from. i really don't think those people are focused on that at all. they have an entirely different focus than what i think the media does and what laypeople do, particularly laypeople outside the church. they're looking for an individual who's a successor to st. peter, the first pope, and they're looking for someone who brings the kind of attributes