VATICAN CITY
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
A DECISION on when to elect the new head of the Catholic Church could be made as early as tomorrow as cardinals are reportedly already clashing on the timing of the election.
The Vatican has reported the last of the 115 cardinals eligible to vote on a new pontiff are expected in Rome today, almost a week after Pope Benedict XVI’s historic stepping down causing a power vacuum at the top.
Up to a dozen cardinals have been missing from pre-conclave meetings designed to look at potential papal candidates ahead of the actual voting process to be held in the Sistine Chapel.
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