Robert Harris:
Well, the cardinals will be getting to know one another and following — everyone comes to Rome, obviously, for the late pope’s funeral.
And for many of them, this will be the first time they have really spent a lot of time in Rome and met one another. So, there’s a getting-to-know-you session going on. And then, on the Tuesday, I think it will be, the cardinals will arrive within the Vatican. Their phones will be taken off them, laptops removed, and they will be given each of them a room in what’s called the Casa Santa Marta, which is a hostel.
The rooms– the windows are sealed. So they’re completely cut off from the outside world. And then, the following day, Wednesday the 7th, there will be a mass, a speech from the dean of the College of Cardinals, and then they go into the Sistine Chapel.
