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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI APRIL 08, 2005 11:51:00 ET XXXXX

VATICAN CONSIDERS TOTAL MEDIA BLACKOUT SURROUNDING VOTE

New York - Sources tell TIME's Rome Bureau Chief Jeff Israely that the cardinals are considering imposing a total media blackout even before the conclave begins to prevent speculation on the outcome of their deliberations.

In TIME.com's Vatican Diary, Israely reports that one of his sources did relate that there's a sense among many of the cardinals that they're looking to see if an Italian consensus candidate exists. If one does not emerge in the early ballots, they'll begin to look elsewhere.

Israely writes, "On the basis of my conversations, I'd say the top three contenders remain Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, the Arcbishop of Milan; Cardinal Claudio Hummes, the Archbishop of Sao Paulo in Brazil; and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the head of the Vatican's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, who has been John Paul II's chief theological enforcer. Tettamanzi would probably be the leading Italian contender; Hummes would represent a turn to the developing world where the Church continues to grow; and Ratzinger would represent a concern to appoint a pontiff capable of whipping the Church's vast bureaucracy into shape, Israely reports.

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