The question is, how do you define it. And I think many of the cardinals who are coming into this election from other parts of the world who are kind of in an anti-establishment mood, to be honest with you, what they mean by reform are sort of three things.
John Allen explains the differing definitions of reform among cardinals and outlines the expectations for the next Pope.
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