Cardinals gathered Monday for their final day of talks before the conclave to elect the next pope amid debate over whether the Catholic Church needs a manager pope to clean up the Vatican's messy bureaucracy or a pastoral pope who can inspire the faithful and make Catholicism relevant again.
On Sunday Boston Archbishop Cardinal Sean O'Malley celebrated mass in Rome.
O'Malley will be one of the 115 cardinals who are part of the voting process.
Several cardinals were signed up to speak at Monday's closed-door session, an indication that the red-capped prelates still have plenty to discuss before sequestering themselves Tuesday afternoon in the Sistine Chapel for the first vote.
There's no clear front-runner, but a handful of names are circulating as top candidates.
