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March 7, 2013

Will Vatican Press Corps Choose the Next Pope?

Jason Horowitz, Washington Post

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Minutes after the College of Cardinals imposed a formal media blackout in reaction to a leak of its private pope-picking deliberations, the short and stocky reporter who broke the story stepped out of the Holy See’s press office wearing a wool hat pulled over his ears, a hooded raincoat and orange-framed glasses.

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