VATICAN CITY
Detroit Free Press
by Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY
American cardinals in Rome to for the lead-up to voting for the next pope may have been blabbing too much about secret discussions in advance of the super-secret conclave.
The day after stories in world media that the U.S. leaders daily press conference, mobbed with reporters, were exerting influence in the advisory meetings now underway, the Wednesday conference was canceled.
Tuesday, the Associated Press had described the scene with more than 100 journalists from the US, Britain and European countries “packing an auditorium for what has become the daily ‘American Show’ at the North American College, the U.S. seminary just up the hill from the Vatican.”
Sister Mary Ann Walsh, spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a Wednesday statement, “Concern was expressed” in the daily meetings of the College of Cardinals “about leaks of confidential proceedings reported in Italian newspapers. As a precaution, the cardinals have agreed not to do interviews.”
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