Er … maybe it’s more time for a media primer. Let’s call it What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Conclave, or at least what kind of coverage you can expect — and where to look most.
The last time the Vatican had to call its cardinals to Rome for a conclave, I went there as well to cover the developments. Even before I had boarded the plane in March 2013, global media had begun predicting how the conclave would develop, which “papabili” (potential candidates) ranked above the others, and what the Catholic Church would have to say with its next election … even before the Camerlengo had prepared the Sistine Chapel for the conclave.
Even the Italian media, which one would assume had more experience with the secretive nature of the process, busied itself with papabili charts and long discussions of who moved up and down the probability list on a daily…
