Southern Calif. Catholics Pray for a Modern Pope

CALIFORNIA
The California Report

Reporter: Steven Cuevas

It’s not so easy for Father Willy Raymond to stay on top of what’s going in Rome.
He gave up cable news for Lent.

“I decided to fast from watching CNN, MSNBC and Fox News,” Raymond says in his Hollywood office where he runs a Catholic-based media company called Family Theatre Productions. But he’s not entirely unplugged. There’s still the radio and the Internet.

“There’s something really interesting right now,” he says, as he calls up a website on the computer. “Just go to Adoptacardinal.org and they will give you the name of a Cardinal elector and you can pray for that person.”

The communion of faith and technology might be something for a new pope to embrace. So says Sister Patricia Rayburn, who hopes the next pontiff will also be more enlightened about the role of women in the church.

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