Rome - Rome was in full bloom and tourists flocked, but behind closed doors, it was the day of dinner, coffee krachi and private meetings, as the town's cardinal, elected the successor of Pope Francis Suss, who among them was in the next step.

It was during this period in March 2013 that the retired Archbishop of Westminster, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-o'Connor, other ideological Europeans began to push for the candidate for Argentine Jesuits, named Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Their table lobbying work, Pope Francis won the fifth vote.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols may have inherited Murphy-o'Connor's status as Archbishop of Westminster, but he did not take on the job as the cardinal was announced these days in an attempt to determine who should be the next pope.

"Our style is completely different," Nichols said Friday, studying in downtown Rome in the 1960s during an interview with the legendary British seminary in Rome. "Cardinal Cormac wants to be the center of the party. I keep more reserved than that and introverts are more introverted."

Nevertheless, Nichols, 79, said about the situation in his Cardinal Electors (what happened between the meals of the famous Carbonara in Rome, what happened between them, because they met each other after saying goodbye to the Pope, and they bid farewell to 108 popes in the church.

Nichols said the days took a few days before his first meeting, as the Cardinal met every morning in the Vatican Auditorium to discuss the needs of the Catholic Church and the types of people who could lead it. These meetings are open to all Cardinals (including cardinals over 80 years old), while the meetings at Sistine Chapel itself are limited to Cardinals who have not yet reached 80.

Nichols said at least in his mind, when the Cardinal looked back at Francis’ 12-year tenet, it began to form a picture of the future pope and where to go from here when the vote began Wednesday.

"I think we're looking for someone who even expresses the depth of faith in their own way, and it's also openness," Nichols said.

Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Westminster Archbishop Nichols in 2009, but he didn't become Cardinal until 2014 when Francis slapped him among his first cardinals. Francis went on to name Nichols as a member of several important Vatican offices, including the powerful Bishop Dicastery, who reviewed bishop nominations around the world.

“My experience has been very attentive for you so far,” Nichols said. “It’s listening to people who might think of today who are the best candidates, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they might change their minds by Monday.”

Nichols said the emerging photos were to see more doctrines of Francis with St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and to appreciate the multicultural reality of the bishop’s church today. Francis greatly expanded the Cardinal Academy to include cardinals from faraway places such as Tonga and Mongolia, rather than just the traditional centers of European Catholicism.

Yes, the divisions and disagreements have aired. "But I always remember when Catholics agreed to everything," Nichols said.

"We are not a squad of boys who march step by step." But he said he felt that the Cardinal believed in Francis' reformed pope and radical appeal, prioritizing the poor and marginalization to care for the earth and all, and that further merge with another pope's pope.

“In a sense, this original initiative adopted by this ingeniousness may need to be more rooted to make them stable and obvious continuity,” Nichols said. “So these are not only one’s mind, one charismatic person, but actually a part of the church’s way of reflecting humanity, our own humanity and our world.”

In his book The Great Reformer, Austen Ivereigh, a biographer of Francis, described the 2013 election of Francis, as well as Nichols' predecessor, Murphy-o'Connor and other powerful Europeans in the Cardinal Academy, seized a chance to show among the Italians, in the competition, competed with Bergoglio, and voted with them, which is known as their vote for themselves, numerous competition.

These mind-conscious cardinals are well known that the "Bergoglio team" attempted to talk about Bergoglio at a 2005 meeting, but failed to let their men pass after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's momentum grows and Bergoglio surrenders.

The book says that in 2013, many people were too old to vote at the conference, and the Belglio team spoke about the Argentinians at dinners around Rome in the days leading up to the conference to ensure that Argentina can get at least 25 votes in the first vote to establish its own serious candidate.

"The Great Reformer" tells the story of a dinner at the North American Academy in Rome on March 5, 2013, where Murphy-O'Connor and Australian Cardinal George Pell were invited, while the British Cardinal spoke to Berglio's name.

"He had a lot of dinners and I think some of them were involved, and some of them grew up believe Bergoglio is what the church needs," Ivereigh said on Friday.

Nichols doesn't have any such calculations or candidates, at least he's willing to leak.

"For me, going into the summary is not a good thing to think it's like a political election. I want my team to win. I won't do that," he said. "I'll definitely come with my own ideas, but be prepared to change them, listen and possibly try to convince others to change their ideas, as well."

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