The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-04-02
The Nationality of Cardinals.
From the New York World.

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With the accessions Of Manning and Nc
Closkey to it's numbers, the ''Saered Col
lege of Cardinals" will contain three Eng
fish speaking members, a.thing noteworthy
of itself, as being, we believe, unprecedented
since the time of Henry VIII. When Car
dinal Pole died in 1868, he was the sole
English-speaking ''Prince of the Church, )"
the Scottish Cardinal Beaton having been
'.improved off the earth'' by a party OF
Jealous reformers twelve years before.
Cardinal De York, the last Prince of the
direct male line of the Stuarts, died near
Rome in 1907, and nc new English Cardi-
nal was made until the nomination of Car
dinal Weld, kinsman of the first husband
Of George Tvs first wife, in 1840 Cardinal
Weld died in 1887. The purple was con-
ferred upon the late Cardinal Wiseman, to
the horror and alarm of Lord John Russell,
in 1850. DR.. Cullen, the Catholic Arch
bishop of Dublin, was made Cardinal in
1866. The three Cardinals Archbishops of
now represent the English-speaking world
IN college of fifty-seven members. 1t may
be interesting to see what proportions are
borne to each other in the college by the
different nationalties. Of course Italy
comes first. The Dean Of the Sacred Col
lege is an Italian, Cardinal Patrizi, Bishop
of Ostia and Velletri, now venera-
BILE man of seventy-seven years. After to-
morrow's proclamations Italy will count,
with the others, bishops, priests and dea-
cons, all the Cardinal Bishops, six in num-
Der, being natives of Italy. Austria and
France come next in order, each with five
Cardinals. Spain has four Cardinals, two
of whom, by the way, it is worth noting,
are natives of the New World, Cardinal De
La Lastre y Cuesta, born in Cuba in 1903,
and now Archbishop of Seville, and Cardi-
nal Moreno, born in Guatemala in 1917,
and now Archbishop of Valladolid. Ger
many will have one Cardinal with the NOM
of Posen, and Belgium, which has been
irreverently styled the bantam chicken of
the Church, one also, with the nomination
of Mgr. Deschamps, Archbishop of Malines
or Mechlin. So that ON the whole the
English-speaking Catholics can scarcely
complain of being inadequately represented
in the highest constitutional body known
to their Church. AS we have already ex-
planned, however, the Cardinalate has no
direct reference to the administration of
the Church, but is in it's very essence an
electoral body designed to intervene be-
tween the Church at large and the Papacy,
and to control the succession to that supreme
office. So far as the Catholics Of the United
States are concerned, therefore, the eleva-
ton of their Archbishop in New York to
this princely rank must really be regarded
as in the main intended to show the recog-
nition by Rome of the growth and import
ance of American Catholicism. So far as
the really important electoral functien of
the Cardinalate is concerned, care has been
taken, it will be seen, to give Italy pre-
cisely the number necessary if the Italian
Cardinals act together, to control the col
lege A two-thirds vote elects the Pope,
and of the fifty seven Cardinals Italy, after
to-morrow's S proclamation, will have exactly
thirty eight.