The cardinals, who are sworn to secrecy not to disclose the proceedings, are forbidden to use any sort of recording or transmissions technology. Upon entering the Sistine Chapel, the cardinals will make the following promise: "We promise and swear with the maximum loyalty to observe, both with clerics and laymen, the secrecy of all that regards the election of the Roman pontiff and what takes place in the place of election." That comes after a spate of articles in Italian newspapers detailing internal Vatican discussions about the future pope. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi was not pleased, telling reporters: “I don't know who is violating the pact of secrecy” and that “if anyone knows who is violating this, they should say so."
