Thursday, 7 March 2013

Latest News from Rome

No date set yet for the conclave, although guesses are that it is March 11th. Vatican Insider insists on this.

The Vietnamese Cardinal arrived today in time for  the afternoon General Meeting.

I shall keep you posted.

from Vatican Insider today:


In his usual news briefing with journalists, the director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, said it was unlikely the College of Cardinals would announce the Conclave start-date this evening. He also added: “I would rather the date not be announced today.”

“People can judge for themselves whether the news about the anonymous interviews is true. I spoke about similar cases in the past.” This was Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi’s response to an article-interview with an anonymous poison pen letter writer, published in an Italian newspaper today.