The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-04-15
HOW THE NEXT POPE WILL BE ELECTED.
We take the following article on the
next Conclave from the Wsstminster Ga
setfe Cardinal Manninc,s paper)

"o taho INV iohOWiuB drtlclo on tn
q next Conclave from the Wsstminster Gc
II sette Cardinal Manning's paper):
g The time for the meeting Of anotbe
= Conclsve is drawing near, and it will hard
ly be ont of place If We give q few notice
Q Of what usually takes place on the Hol,
D See becoming vacant. The chief rul,
' during the vacancy beIongst to the Cirdi
> nal CameTlingo. He repairs to the cham be
where the dead Ponti lies he strikes hin
on the forehead thrice with q slender ham
mer' and calls him three times by his orig
inal names, (as, for Instance, "Giovanni
MastaifD Receiving no reply, he takes
of the "riDg of the fishermann and breake
it.
Nine days are allowed for assembling
the Conclaye. 1t can no longer be held in
the Q1iriual; the next, therefore, will be
convened in the Vatican. The doors and
| widows of the room act apart for it will
| DO walled up, one or two panes of glass
| only being eft at the top to afford q little
| light d zen Conclaves might be held in
| the spacious palace where the Pope resides
and cells for the Cardinals can easily be
constructed in the long galleries. They
Will be made of ordinary fir plauks, and
covered on the outside with violet vered
serge ii the inhsbitant was created Cardi-
nal by the Pope just deceased. and green
II by some previous Pontiff. The Cardi-
nails may not visit each other by night, and
emissaries are placed as sentlnels to pre-
vent this irregularity. However, De
BFosses says they often manage to do it,
On the fret day of the Conclave their
EmInences hear Mass and sing the Veni
creator before proceeding to business. |
Many last word is said before the bell |
rings and the master of the ceremonies |
pronounces an Extra Omnes," and the |
last door is shut and walled up. Nobody
Is then permitted to leave the Copclave. |
But by this time the evening has arrived
and the Cardinals retire to rest. At eight
o CLOCK the next morning bell ia rung at
The donr of each cell, and at nine, claf in
band, rochet, cape, and sroccia,
Win their scarlet berette, they proceed to
ne chapel, hear Mass, and Communicates
Many minute ceremonies are observed
"hch may here be passed over. Then
hey return to their cells to breakfast, aud
.fter yards proceed to the frat scrutiny
he mid day meal follows. The dinners
u their Eminences are brought t. the
,rota," or turn-table opening, at which
hey are to be passed into the Conclave
' ith much care and in a solemn manner.
Zach Cardinal has o 'Dapifer,n or feast
arrler, who discharges that function for
is Imprisoned master. During the intro
uctlon of the viands, great care is taken
hat no ommunications respecting the
usiness of the Conclave shall take place
etween those immured and the outside
7orld.
MIR. Adolphus Trollope, who is no friend
the Catholic Church, says in reference
Conclaves: "Given the necessity of
avlng a Pope, it would probably be i'm
ne than that which the Church has gradu-
lily perfected" f.!
There have beon but five Conclaves held
bis century; the first, which elected
Pope Plus VII in 1900 the I
econd, to which we owe Della Genga, Leo
AtI, in 1923 the third, which chose i
aVerio, Plus VIII, in 1929; the fourth, !
apellsn, Gregory XVI. and the fifth, S
.sIeh elected Mastai of Sinigaglia as Plus :
X, in 1876. Two of these Pontiffs have K
''gned an unusually lorg time, Plus VI. Z
avipg bees on tho Papal throne nearly 23 I
ears and half, and the present occupant
II the 2G2 successors of st. Peter who has u
verpassed a quarter of century.
ltthas been stated in some of the papers
'st the lew which required au Italian as
ope has now been set aside, but this re-
ort could only have been originated by
ale ever existed. In the early history of
le Church many POpes were Orientals;
no has been au Eoglishm man, several Ger
lans. Now that the temporal sovereignty
the Holy See no longer exists, and there
'ems little probability at present of it's be- .
= "' '"oio SSuuot oe tne slightest
nJection to non Italian Cardinal being =
ected In the next Conclave, and indeed
iere are reasons which make it apOear
key that It will be so.
There are persons who look forward.
'me with anxiety and more with curiosi-
:, to the next Conclave, whenever it NAV
ease God that 1t should take place.
hey are on the lookout for some change
Tue policy OF the Holy See, whether IA
tects the Governments of Italy and Ger
any, or in it's relation to modern tn ought.
Ut such individuals may be reminded that
mliar expectations ou the demise of
her Pontlffs have generally been disap e
'inted. There are grand outlines of Pa
'riatiops which are possible may be re- n
iced within very narrow limits. The
diVldual is soon merged in the official
aracter, and few, if any, Cardinals could
found who would wish it to be- other A