Question: What did the composition of the cardinals consist of?
Answer: comprising six cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons.

Question: During who's term did the ruling exceed? 
Answer: Pope John XXIII

Question: Pope Paul VI increse the number of cardinal electors to? 
Answer: 120

Question: What is the maximum age for electors?
Answer: 80

Question: Pope Paul VI raised the cap on cardinal electors from 70 to what?
Answer: 120

Question: Pope Paul VI had no cap on what?
Answer: the number of cardinals generally

Question: Where do the cardinals work?
Answer: a church in the city of Rome or one of the suburbicarian sees

Question: Who receives the hishopric of Ostia?
Answer: The Dean of the College of Cardinals

Question: What other title does the Dean of Collge of Cardinals receive upon appointment?
Answer: titular bishopric of Ostia

Question: In was year was the title decreed Eminence?
Answer: 1630

Question: Who decreed this?
Answer: Pope Urban VIII

Question: What rank did the Eminece decree assigned?
Answer: Prince

Question: Who held more power then the cardinal?
Answer: the Pope and crowned monarchs

Question: Which pope decided that being pope was equal to being a prince?
Answer: Pope Urban VIII

Question: The Archdiocese of Milwaukee says that the correct way to address a cardinal in English is? 
Answer: "Cardinal [First name] [Surname]"

Question: What is the proper way to address a cardinal according to the Archdiocese of Milwaukee?
Answer: Cardinal [First name] [Surname]

Question: How do cardinals sign traditionally?
Answer: by placing the title "Cardinal" (abbreviated Card.) after their personal name and before their surname

Question: How do Oriental Patriarchs sign?
Answer: Sanctae Ecclesiae Cardinalis

Question: Why do Oriental Patriarchs sign this way?
Answer: because they do not belong to the Roman clergy

Question: What way is used to announce the election of a new pope in Latin?
Answer: [First name] Cardinal [Surname]

Question: What should the new pople have been before becoming a pope?
Answer: Cardinal

Question: When was the most recent election of a non-cardinal?
Answer: 1378

Question: When is the last time a non cardinal was elected as pope?
Answer: 1378

Question: Do any sees carry the right to the cardinalate?
Answer: no

Question: Despite some traditions and rights, no see has the right to what?
Answer: the cardinalate

Question: Who are among the most senior members of the Catholic Church?
Answer: Cardinal bishops

Question: What is a cardinal bishop?
Answer: cardinals of the episcopal order

Question: Some cardinals are bishop in name only, what are they called?
Answer: Cardinal bishops

Question: In early times, who was generally electied to cardinal?
Answer: a Roman priest

Question: Why did the ceromony of consecrating a bishop have to be preformed by someone who was already a bishop?
Answer: To preserve apostolic succession

Question: What is the rule if the peson elected is not a bishop? 
Answer: he is consecrated by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia.

Question: What happens if a Pope is elected who is not a bishop?
Answer: he is consecrated by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia.

Question: How many suburbicarian sees?
Answer: seven

Question: When were the two sees combined? 
Answer: 1150 until 1914

Question: Who separated them?
Answer: Pope Pius X

Question: What are the seven sees?
Answer: Ostia, Albano, Porto and Santa Rufina, Palestrina, Sabina and Mentana, Frascati and Velletri

Question: Cardinal bishops do not have any powers of governnace over the suburibicarian see since when?
Answer: 1962

Question: Which see doesn't have its own bishop?
Answer: Ostia

Question: Who is in charge of Ostia? 
Answer: Cardinal Vicar of the see of Rome is apostolic administrator.

Question: In what year was it decided that cardinal bishops had no power over the seven sees?
Answer: 1962

Question: What see is the one exception to this rule?
Answer: Ostia

Question: Who has power over the exception?
Answer: the Cardinal Vicar of the see of Rome

Question: The entire group of cardinals is known as what?
Answer: College of Cardinals

Question: Who is the only person who can judge a Cardinal in regards to laws of the church?
Answer: the pope

Question: What does the pope give to a new Cardinal?
Answer: a gold ring

Question: Who decides on the design of the item given to new Cardinals?
Answer: the pope

Question: What is the name of the hat that the pope used to wear when naming a new Cardinal?
Answer: a galero.

Question: In what year did the practice of donning this item stop?
Answer: 1969

Question: What does the pope now wear when naming a new Cardinal?
Answer: scarlet biretta

Question: Which Cardinals still wear traditional clothing?
Answer: Eastern Catholic cardinals

Question: What does the color red symbolize in the clothing worn by Cardinals?
Answer: willingness to die for his faith

Question: Which item of clothing worn by cardinals is always white?
Answer: rochet

Question: The Cardinal bird was named as such because of what in relation to Cardinals of the church?
Answer: the scarlet color of cardinals' vesture

Question: When did Cardinals stop wearing purple or blue capes?
Answer: 1460s

Question: What happens if a Cardinal is named in pectore, and the pope dies?
Answer: the cardinalate expires

Question: Which pope began using creati et reservati in pectore?
Answer: Pope Martin V

Question: What was a "lay cardinal" allowed to do that is not considered a normal status of a Cardinal?
Answer: marry

Question: In what year did Pope Benedict XV revise the Code of Canon Law?
Answer: 1917

Question: What did the Code of Canon Law state in regards to Cardinals?
Answer: only those who are already priests or bishops may be appointed cardinals

Question: A cardinal who does not hold the title of "bishop" may not do what?
Answer: perform the functions reserved solely to bishops, such as ordination

Question: Cardinals who were not bishops have been promoted to Cardinal around the age of 80 since what year?
Answer: 1962

Question: In what year did the practice of allowing non priests to become Cardinals stop?
Answer: 1917

Question: In what year was it declared that Cardinals had to be bishops?
Answer: 1962

Question: In the time between electing new popes, what is the duty of the cardinal?
Answer: collate information about the financial situation of all administrations dependent on the Holy See and present the results to the College of Cardinals

Question: Who announces the election of a new pope?
Answer: The cardinal protodeacon

Question: Where does this person announce the election of the new pope?
Answer: from the central balcony at the Basilica of Saint Peter in Vatican City State

Question: Who was the first pope who chose not to be crowned?
Answer: Pope John Paul I

Question: What color is the hat?
Answer: white

Question: How many cardinal deacons were there in 2005?
Answer: 30

Question: How many years before a cardinal deacon can choose the order of the cardinal priests?
Answer: 10 years

Question: In 1939, how many Cardinals were Italian?
Answer: about half

Question: In 1994, how many Cardinals were Italian?
Answer: third

Question: What is the name of one of the deaconries in which Cardinals come from?
Answer: seven deacons in the Papal Household

Question: Which cardinals are ranked lowest?
Answer: cardinal deacons

Question: Who can become the cardinal protopriest?
Answer: The cardinal who is the longest-serving member of the order of cardinal priests

Question: Who is the cardinal protopriest at this time?
Answer: Paulo Evaristo Arns of Brazil

Question: In the College of Cardinals, the elected Dean needs the approval of who?
Answer: the Pope

Question: Patriarch cardinals are not given what title?
Answer: a suburbicarian see