Update 3: Maltese Cardinal to give meditation at beginning of conclave

Maltese Cardinal Prospero Grech is to deliver one of the meditation sessions at the beginning of the conclave to elect a new Pope, which will start on Tuesday afternoon, after morning mass. Cardinal Grech, who is unable to vote for the new Pope because he is over 80, is an expert on Church fathers, according to a tweet by the Catholic News Service. The cardinals are normally presented with two meditations on the problems facing the Church and the need for careful discernment in choosing a new Pope. Cardinals today set Tuesday as the start date for the conclave. The Vatican press office said the decision was taken during a vote afternoon of the College of Cardinals. Tuesday will begin with a mass in the morning, followed by the first balloting in the afternoon. There is no front-runner in this election, and the past week of deliberations has exposed sharp divisions among cardinals about some of the pressing problems facing the church, including governance within the Holy See itself. Early in the week, the Americans were pressing for more time to get to the bottom of the level of dysfunction and corruption exposed by the leaks of papal documents last year. But by yesterday, Cardinal...