John D.S. Allen: “If you look at the conclaves of the 20th century, half the time, the guy who was identified as the front-runner actually…”

It has got to be about the future, bringing our people together and resolving these issues of inequality.

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…

The fact that you--Congressman Rose and your colleagues--have convened this hearing to confront this problem and look for more effective ways we can stop it and roll it back gives me hope.

To embrace this Franciscan spirit as his first decision I think sends a very clear symbol that in terms of returning the church to the sort of core sense of what it's all about, this is a reform.