Andrea Gagliarducci

Andrea Gagliarducci

Andrea Gagliarducci is an Italian journalist for Catholic News Agency and Vatican analyst for ACI Stampa. He is a contributor to the National Catholic Register.

Articles by Andrea Gagliarducci

Cardinals pray during their second general meeting on March 4, 2013 in the Vatican's New Synod Hall. CNA file photo.

Cardinals contemplate insider, outsider papal candidates

Mar 6, 2013 / 03:57 am

“We are not ready to enter the conclave,” Cardinal Francis George of Chicago plainly told the Italian newspaper La Stampa today, adding, “I never felt that we would begin the conclave on March 11th.”

Cardinals participate in the Nov. 2012 consistory in St. Peter's Basilica. Lewis Ashton Glancy/CNA.

Old establishment cardinals hope for quick conclave

Mar 4, 2013 / 07:00 am

While the cardinals created by Benedict XVI arrive in Rome and get acquainted with the pre-conclave operations, cardinals from the old establishment are pushing for a quick conclave.