Our Sunday Visitor's Pope Benedict XVI

Reports from Rome

By OSV publisher Greg Erlandson

Our Sunday Visitor Publisher Greg Erlandson travelled to Rome to cover the Papal Conclave. His reports are filled with on-the-spot observations and commentary. Click on the articles below to follow the story as the historic week unfolded, from a eyewitness.

Roman Journal

• April 24, 2005: The Inaugural Mass
• April 24, 2005: Getting used to a new pope 
• April 22, 2005: The Transition
• April 19, 2005: Witness to a new papacy
• On the election of Benedict XVI
• April 15, 2005: First impressions
• April 16, 2005: A magnificant Mass
• April 17, 2005: "Locked In"
• April 18, 2005: The Conclave Begins