Pope Heads to U.S. for First Ever Visit
HARRIS: Time to take a look at some of the most clicked on videos at CNN.com. A shoot-out in a liquor store in Milwaukee goes unnoticed by a customer. Take a look at this. You can see the picture in the bright green jacket. He's not even phase fazed. Gunshots going on here. Hundreds of FLDS members got together at a rare meeting in Arizona. This comes after hundreds of children were taken away from a ranch in Texas. And remember the 80s fad the Rubik's cube? Well, 40 Rubik's cube masters set out to prove that they were the fastest at a competition in Denver. For more of your favorite video, go to CNN.com/mostpopular. And of course don't forget, you can take us with you anywhere, the CNN daily podcast. Just go to CNN.com and click on podcast.</s>NGUYEN: Pope Benedict is on his way to the U.S. right now. He left Rome aboard his plane the Shepherd One just a couple of hours ago. This trip expected to be different from those by his predecessor, John Paul II. CNN's Mary Snow has more.</s>MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Pope Benedict XVI addressing crowds in Rome Sunday, getting an enthusiastic sendoff as he gets ready to introduce himself to American Catholics. Three years after succeeding Pope John Paul II, Benedict remains somewhat a mystery.</s>JOHN ALLEN, CNN SENIOR VATICAN ANALYST: I think most American Catholics may not know a lot about him. He is not the sexy media icon that John Paul II was. What they've seen by and large they've liked.</s>SNOW: Of American Catholics polled by the Pew Research Center, 74 percent give Pope Benedict a favorable rating. But the survey points out that he's not as highly regarded as his predecessor. For one, their personalities are different. John Paul was known for his charisma. Benedict is known as an intellectual, an introvert.</s>CARDINAL FRANCIS GEORGE, ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO: He doesn't quite get the same kind of energy from crowds that John Paul II got. John Paul II was extroverted. He got energy talking to people. The present Holy Father loses energy and he has to rest in between all these encounters.</s>SNOW: The energy factor is partly due to age. Pope Benedict turns 81 this week. When John Paul became pope, he was only 58 and was able to keep a much more rigorous schedule traveling around the globe. The two men, though, had strong ties. Benedict then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, was John Paul's chief theological adviser. He was a key figure behind the crackdown on moral teachings of homosexuality and women's ordination.</s>ALLEN: From the outside he was seen as an arch conservative, sort of Darth Vaderesque figure. So some people interpret it, the election as pope as a sharp to the right, Reagan revolution in the Catholic Church.</s>SNOW: But on the inside, says Vatican analyst John Allen, cardinals view Benedict as a man that's extremely open. Victims of sex abuse by priests are hoping Pope Benedict will listen to them. There are deep scars following the widespread sex abuse scandal of the church that came to the forefront in 2002. One group is calling on the pope to meet with sex abuse victims and to transform the church. Another group is calling on the U.N. to investigate the Vatican's role. Mary Snow, CNN, New York.</s>NGUYEN: You can follow Pope Benedict's six-day visit on CNN.com. Tomorrow morning, we will take you live to the White House for the pope's historic visit there. You can see it right here in the CNN NEWSROOM. And this note too, this weekend T.J. Holmes and I will anchor live from New York for the pope's visit on Sunday. We'll be live from Yankee Stadium mass. Don't miss it.</s>HARRIS: You are going up?</s>NGUYEN: I'm going up. I'm going to visit the pope.</s>HARRIS: That's terrific.</s>NGUYEN: If he allows us in.</s>HARRIS: If he knows you like I know you.</s>NGUYEN: We are good. Tony.</s>HARRIS: Still to come in the NEWSROOM, this is no child's play. One minute you are shooting the breeze, part of the next, there is a knife in your head. What's up with that?