, 1877-11-25
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.
Description of the Manner in
Which a Pope Is Elected.
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ELECTION OF THE POPE.
Philadelphia Press.
The procedure In Rome Immediately after the
death Of the Pope is Of complicated but rou-
tine description, first begun over eight centuries
ago. In 1850 Nicholas II. issued q bull con-
fir 'jg the elective franchise to the College Of
Caflinals, leaving to the CLERGY and people OF
Rome, who had previously shared the right with
them, the ratification Of their choice. Il cen
tury later Alexander Ill decreed that q ma
jority Of Mt least two-thrls OF the Cardinals
voting was necessary to valid election, In
1874, under Gregory K, tue Second Council of
Lyons directed that ten DAYS attcr the death OF
Pope ito allow time for the arrival Of ao-
claye in the palace in which he brcathed his
last, and that, with q limited number Of attcnd-
ants, they should be imrnurcd Until
tho election was completed. These
three DEGREES nave formed to this
day the rule for the Papal election. It may here
be mentioned, in the words Of the late Cardinal
Wiscman. that 81 English writer's comrnit com
mon error in speaking OF the 'Conclave' as
meaning the assembled body Of Cardinals on
them when 'locked up together for election OF
the Pope" Indeed, the word is q comoound
Of the Latin con, with, aud clavcs. key. -
Between tue death Of the Pope and the cleo
tion uf his successor the principal parsonage
copuected with the Church in Rome used to be
the Cardinal Camarlcngo. His functions have
long ceased to be more than purely cercNoulal.
The powers Of the Cardinals during the tu-
tcrrcgnum have been confined between the
narrowest limits by q series OF rigld prescfip-
tions framed by successive Pontiffs. All public
business civil or ecclesiastical, that could possl-
bly be postponed WAS at q standstill while the
throne was vacant, and, until comparatively
recent times, the Popclcss city was = scene Of Of
Van 7ntr Af
Rome, q former official with an imposing title
aud little authority, used to open. the pris-
ons and let out the inmates on tic ropes
death, and, even 50 lately as the year 1850, the
"cell:' OF the newly-clected Pope was. always
sacked by tho s'couclaylsts,' or attendants on
the e1ccting cardinals From that time until
Juuc, 1916, when Pope Plus N. was elected, 4
sum Of 1900 was distributed among them by
way Of communication.
On the evening OF the tenth day alter tnc
Popc's death as many OF the seventy Cardinals
| as NAV then be in ROME will be lmmnrcd in
series of s'cells" fitted up III the Vatican with
very primitive and scanty accommodation !or
comfort Then this conelave will begin with
the form of proving the respective right o1 cac9
member to the suffrage Laymen may be, and
have been, Cardinals, Sextus =: made luis
| nenheW 4 Cardinal wien Toy OF Is, and as late
| as 1735, wien CIc,ncnt II. WAS Pope, Don Luis
| of Bourbon was named Cardinal Archbishop or
| Toledo 1T years Of are!
Quiriual, that prnccIy palace on Monte Cavai!o,
which WIS the fayorte summer residence OF thc
ropcs during the first seventy years OF the pres
| cnt century. In the Pauline Chapel in this
IN front of the altar the chaicc WAS placed as 4
ba,lot-box, and in fireplace behind the Vosln:-
porfrs we're burned, after a1l lncpncluslTe pal
io!, the smoke issuing from the chimney or il!3e
| being sign to the cypectant crown oatslue
| tnat there was no Pope as vet. There are tnrce
nudes OF e1cction-by i1,s spration. compromise,
| or baloting. The first is when nil the Cardlhass
! unanimously choose the same person, Inc
| second, when they delegate their powers to a
| few of their own bolyi the third. when there
| is q ballot, twice day, under very complicated
rc~nlations. 10 one can vote for himself !.
| Tne Courts of France, Austria, and SPAN
| louy couli exercise q right OF veto betorc the
cauoni.al majority OF two-th1rds' vote hau COM
d.ath Of Plus VIII, when Cardinal Gutst'1'tan
had received twcnty-onc votes ont OF twenty
nine sufficient for election, an objection to h'Ir
was made on the part OF Spain, w1thout reasot
alleged, and it had due weight for Carilna
GaDocllari was elected Pope on February 8
isl. and took the name oil Gregory XVI. It ];
| believed that in June. lSiG, after the dcath o.
this PontifT, it was only from Their envoy arr2'
inr too late tn Rome that the Court Of vienna
| did not veto the election OF Cara1nal Masta
| ,yhost reign, as Plus TX, is the longest on
record ,, ,,,,;.;o,,
of church affairs in Rome it may be assumed,
with much certainty, that no Papal power VIII
he allowed by the Conclave to exercise veto,
and that the next Pope, like all his preIeccs-
sors, from Adrian VI. (who was Dutehnan,
elected in 1523), will be an Italian, though there
is no rule to that effect
The moment a Pope is elected he receives
what is acnominated tile thirst alteration" OF
the Cardinals in the chapel, and then is PRO
claimed to tue public as the choice OF the Con
| rlayc. His second and third . adoEatsons," a
he Is seated on tho High Altar Of st. Peters
| follow, His coronation with the triple tiara
also at St. Peters, is generally on the ncx1
Iarcran Basilca. the Metropolitan Churct
{ur5is Ct or5is) Of the city and tl'c world bnt u
Is the election alone, and not any o1 the subse
ouent ceremonies, that makes him Pope.