I want to focus us all on the life of Pope Francis and its impact on each of us.

Today, that's the real story.

We begin this hour with breaking news.

Pope Emeritus Benedict the 16th has died.

At 7.35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, return to the House of the Father.

I stand firmly with my Catholic friends who mourn the death of the Pope and join them in praying

for a new Pope who will reunite them. Doing that is consistent with the teachings of one

of the giants in my profession, the founder of analytic

psychology, Carl Jung, who incidentally was not Catholic either. I share some of his observations

about Catholicism, not just for my Catholic friends, but to help us non-Catholics as well in

evaluating the life of the Pope, applying principles central

to both Catholicism and psychology. You see, Carl Jung studied Catholicism in his pursuit

of understanding psychology. He said, even so, as a Protestant, it is quite clear to me that in its healing effects, no

creed is as closely akin to psychoanalysis as Catholicism.

He pointed out that the symbols of the Catholic liturgy offer the unconscious such a wealth

of possibilities for expression that they act as an

incomparable diet for the psyche. He recognized that psychology and Catholicism shared

similar methods, logic, and rules. I share some of that with you now in reviewing the life of Pope Francis.

The Pope's death has triggered much debate about his leadership of the Catholic Church.

This is 12-year-long papacy was in many ways a remarkable one, working in service to the church until the very day before he died. Last year you decided to allow Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples.

That's a big change. Why?

No, what I allowed was not to bless the union.

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