VATICAN CITY
NECN
Mar 10, 2013
Editors,
The cardinals have set Tuesday as the start date for the conclave to select a new pope. The first vote is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, following a morning Mass. Here are the AP’s multiformat plans for the days leading up to the first vote.
Sunday, March 10
Spot coverage: Cardinals hold Mass in their titular churches in Rome. All formats covering.
Tour of Sistine Chapel for photo.
— CROWD CONTROL — What are the crowd control challenges for the conclave? We speak with the Rome deputy mayor in charge of logistics. All formats covering. Text by Fran D’Emilio.
— VATICAN-CARDINALS — A series profiling the men who could be pope. Text thumbnails of the profiles with photos.
Cardinals who have been featured in the Vatican-Cardinal “papabili” series: Filipino Antonio Tagle, Sri Lankan Malcolm Ranjith, Italian Angelo Scola, Canadian Marc Ouellet, Honduran Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, American Timothy Dolan, Argentinians Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Leonardo Sandri, Austrian Christoph Schoenborn, Ghanian Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Hungarian Peter Erdo, Brazilian Odilo Scherer, Italian Gianfranco Ravasi .
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