RNS CONCLAVE HOTEL

An unidentified Cardinal walking toward the Domus Santa Martha, the hotel where the Cardinals live during the Conclave. Many Cardinals cruise the streets of Rome by chauffered car; but some prefer the old fashioned method of transportation. Photo by Rene Shaw.

An unidentified Cardinal walking toward the Domus Santa Martha, the hotel where the Cardinals live during the Conclave. Many Cardinals cruise the streets of Rome by chauffered car; but some prefer the old fashioned method of transportation. See RNS-CONCLAVE-HOTEL, transmitted April 13, 2005. Photo by Rene Shaw.

RNS CONCLAVE HOTEL

(RNS5-APRIL13) To ensure electors in the papal conclave are sequestered from any outside
influence, all voting cardinals will be housed in the Domus Sancta Martha (St. Martha’s House), a
plain but capable $20 million hotel built just for this purpose by Pope John Paul II in 1996. The
conclave’s task is to choose a successor to John Paul II. See RNS-CONCLAVE-HOTEL,
transmitted April 13, 2005. Photo by Rene Shaw.