Whilst in Rome before the 2005 papal conclave, the cardinals who were members of the Saint Gallen Group sent their host Ivo Fürer a card saying: "We are here together in the spirit of Saint Gallen", and before the conclave they came together for a talk over dinner. According to an anonymous cardinal's excerpts from whose diary were published by Brunelli, two of them, Lehmann and Danneels, were "the thinking core" of the "reformisti" during the conclave. These "reformisti" did not want to vote for Joseph Ratzinger, and tried to prevent his election by giving all their votes to Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who thus might achieve a blocking minority. They succeeded, but Bergoglio, "almost in tears", begged not to be elected. Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI.