Anderson's restaurant in Mexico City was the kind of place where patrons' neckties were cutoff and stapled to the wall along with their business cards.
The conclave is designed to take outside pressure off cardinals by sequestering them behind a wall of silence where communication with the outside world is essentially cutoff, and much of the daily schedule is scripted.
Since taking control of the company in 2009, according to The Wall Street Journal, Flanders has cut the payroll by 75% and sold off some its older media businesses.