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Obama 'hugely impressed' with Pope Francis

President Obama's interview with the CNBC business news channel included high praise for Pope Francis.

"I have been hugely impressed with the pope's pronouncements," Obama said, describing Francis as "somebody who lives out the teachings of Christ. Incredible humility -- incredible sense of empathy to the least of these, to the poor."

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"He's also somebody who is -- I think first and foremost -- thinking about how to embrace people as opposed to push them away; how to find what's good in them as opposed to condemn them.

"And that spirit, that sense of love and unity, seems to manifest itself in not just what he says, but also what he does. And, you know, for any religious leader, that's something -- that's a quality I admire.

New perfume: Eau de Toast

Here’s a toast to hungry models around the world.

The smell of the crispy morning tradition has been bottled up in a perfume as part of a British campaign to convince people that bread is beautiful.

The U.K. Federation of Bakers created Eau de Toast to remind the nation, particularly women, what they may be missing if they skip breakfast. A bottle of the scent, which smells of toasted bread, was sent to models at last month’s London Fashion Week and became so popular that samples of the perfume quickly evaporated in a puff.

“What we’re trying to do is bring to the attention of people what a good, versatile, healthy and value-for-money product bread is,” Gordon Polson, the trade federation’s director, told TODAY.com.

Ministering on Death Row - and Feeling a New Confidence in Rome

This week, trailing a group of men walking through a prison, Sister Helen Prejean overheard bits of what they were discussing. “I heard one saying, ‘He is so honest,’ but I didn’t catch who they were talking about at first,” said Sister Prejean, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph, an order of Roman Catholic sisters.

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Then she figured it out from fragments that floated back to her, hearing mention of a man who admitted to having been excessively authoritarian as a boss, who washed the feet of women and prisoners and Muslims, and who had called for the Catholic Church to find a “new balance” in its teachings of moral concerns. The subject was Pope Francis.

The people talking about him were 12 bishops who were visiting California’s death row in San Quentin prison, the home to more than 700 condemned men.

“Francis’ whole style is so honest and forthright,” Sister Prejean said. “He just really says what he thinks. That’s what the bishops were commenting on. They’re not used to it.”