Article: This time, cardinals will lodge in style for the conclave to elect a pope

DANIELA PETROFF, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-11-2005
Dateline: VATICAN CITY
It may not be first-class luxury, but the hotel where the cardinals will stay is a welcome change from the makeshift cubbyholes they occupied in the past while electing a new pope.

Once the election conclave begins April 18, all 115 cardinals eligible to vote will move into the Domus Sanctae Marthae, a recently restored residence within Vatican City with 106 suites and 22 single rooms, each with a private bathroom.

In the cramped quarters in the Apostolic Palace used in the two conclaves of 1978, the august "princes of the church" shared one bathroom for as many as six prelates.

The Vatican showed a ...

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