VATICAN CITY
Washington Post
Cardinals hold meeting but do not set date for conclave to choose the next pope
By Jason Horowitz
Updated: Monday, March 4
VATICAN CITY — The College of Cardinals held its first general meeting Monday morning since the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, but the cardinals did not choose a start date for the conclave from which the next pope will emerge.
“There was no decision taken for the conclave,” said the Rev. Tom Rosica, a Vatican spokesman, during a news briefing here. “We have no information on the date of the conclave.”
“I think we are just feeling our way right now,” Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, said in a subsequent meeting of American cardinals with reporters.
“We’d like to be done before Holy Week,” said Cardinal Francis George, the archbishop of Chicago. “I would assume others would be of the same mind.”
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