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"Who the next Pope will be is important because he's both the head of a state and of a religion. He influences relations among peoples and religious communities in addition to influencing aspects of Catholic life including sex, death and children.\nSo whether your interest comes from within the Church or not, the papal conclave is worth your attention. But the Vatican, with its devotion to secrecy and history of valuing the institution over the people in it, is difficult to follow.\nHere are five guides who can walk you through the conclave like Virgil guided Dante through the afterlife. These people come with arguably greater knowledge and more convincing analysis than the thousands of general assignment reporters that are wheeling around the dome of St. Peters.\n1. John Allen\n\nAllen is senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter. He established the NCR's Rome office in 2000 and is the author of The Future Church.\n\nEver wonder how anybody knows who the papal contenders are? Here you go: ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-toda\u2026\n\u2014 John L. Allen, Jr. (@JohnLAllenJr) March 12, 2013\n\n2. Giovanna Chirri\n\nChirri, who tweets in Italian, was the first reporter to break the news of Benedict\u2019s retirement, her Latin skills allowing her to understand the statement in which he announced his resignation. She reports on the Vatican for Italy's ANSA news agency.\n\nSi prega in tante parrocchie di Roma con i cardinali titolari, pensando al loro impegnativo compito di eleggere nuovo papa.\n\u2014 Giovanna Chirri (@GiovannaChirri) March 10, 2013\n\n3. Robert Moynihan\n\nMoynihan is the founder and editor of the monthly magazine Inside the Vatican, published since 1993.\n\nI just finished another post themoynihanletters.com/from-the-desk-\u2026 #conclave #vatican @insidevatican\n\u2014 Robert Moynihan (@RobertMoynihan) March 12, 2013\n\n4. John Thavis\n\nThavis is the author of The Vatican Diaries and reported for the Catholic News Service from 1983 until last year.\n\nThe kind of politicking the cardinals can and can't do.johnthavis.com/conclave-day-1\u2026\n\u2014 John Thavis (@JohnThavis) March 12, 2013\n\n5. Andrea Tornielli\n\nTornielli, who also tweets largely in Italian, is a Vatican reporter for La Stampa's Vatican Insider and blogs at Sacri Palazzi (Sacred Buildings).\n\n\u00ABDio ci conceda un Pastore che annunci il Vangelo e la misericordia\u00BB - Vatican Insider vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/vaticano/detta\u2026\n\u2014 Andrea Tornielli (@Tornielli) March 12, 2013\n\nImage via Mimmo Chianura-Pool/Getty Images\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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