ROME
CNN
[with video]
By Jonathan Wald, CNN
updated 3:14 PM EDT, Mon March 11, 2013
Rome (CNN) — A plain clothes policeman watches Francesco Zanardi. As he waits for his moment just outside the Vatican in St Peter’s Square, Zanardi’s intention is clear. So is the policeman’s.
The 42-year-old from Savona has traveled 550 kilometers [342 miles] to Rome, determined to make a delivery at the Vatican.
The policeman, however, is just as determined to stop him. Zanardi clutches a red case, emblazoned with a picture of Domenico Calcagno — one of the cardinals who will elect a new pope in the conclave this week — across it are the words, “Fuori Dal Conclave” or “Out of the Conclave.”
It’s stuffed with thousands of signed letters all claiming that Calcagno covered up the serial sex abuse of a priest in northern Italy. They want the cardinal to be disqualified from voting in the conclave. But no one is more insistent than Francesco Zanardi.
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