MSNBC airing prayers without commentary.
Just as I said that commentating recommenced.
CNN airing the prayers now...
All networks are covering now.
You said it. Chris Matthews was making comments about the Pope, how he was "too conservative" by (paraphrase) "not continuing with the reforms of Vatican II" such as giving women more of a role in the Church, etc.
I believe it was the NY Times who mentioned that the Pope was "conservative" in not allowing women to be ordained into the Priesthood. M. Kondracke said the same last night on Special Report with Brit Hume.
Expect to see a lot of that clamor in the next few days and months by the same media, who will pride themselves in becoming experts on papal succession and also on knowing the nuances of the Roman Catholic Church. The same media which has castigated the Church will now become "experts" on the Church.