Cardinal Daniel Nicholas DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, smiles during a press conference at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. The Sistine Chapel closed to visitors on Tuesday and construction work got under way to prepare it for the conclave, but five cardinals remained AWOL from the preparatory meetings to discuss who should run the Catholic Church following Benedict XVI's resignation.The Vatican insisted nothing was amiss and that the five cardinals would be arriving in the coming days. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)BALTIMORE (Reuters) – U.S. Catholic bishops on Tuesday elected Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, as president of their management conference, and Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston diocese as vice chairman. The election of Kurtz and DiNardo to 3-12 months phrases comes as Catholic bishops global are being given new path by using Pope Francis, who has emphasised higher humility and extra challenge for the terrible. The bishops oversee 69 million American Catholics, or about one-quarter of the U.S. population. (Reporting with the aid of Mary Wisniewski; Editing by using Gerald E. …