Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-28
THE NEXT POPE.

| The Coming Conclaye of Cardinals
Italy's Diplomacy-whaf SiSnol
Crispi VIII Endeavor TO Demon.
strate to the Triple Allfance-Proba.
bility OF q Foreigner Being Chosen
| Pope.
Copyrighted by the Associated Press, 1911
ROME, Jan. 27.-The vatican has been
advised that the italian government was
occupying itself automatically with the
approaching conclave in order to prevent
the election of pope unfavorable to
official Italy and favorable to France. Sig
nor Crispi, prime minister, will endeavor
to demonstrate to the triple alliance that
in view of the hostile spirit which exists at
present in high quarters, it is to the inter
est of the allied cabinets to prepare the
Forthcoming conclave. This explains the
opposition offered by several German and
italian journals to the cardinals who are
described as the favorites of France or of
the party called the intransigeants. Sig
nor Crispi, it must be remembered, was
president of the council in 1878 at the
time of the election of Leo. XIII. This
time he hopes to exercise great influence
At the vatican they appear skeptical and
serene in this respect-frst, because the
pope enjoys perfect health, and, secondly,
because the sacred college is not, as for
merly, exposed to the interference of courts
or cabinets. A highly placed parsonage,
who will certainly play preponderating
part in the future conclaye, said in this
connection: The times have passed when
the cardinals accepted the veto of the mon
arches. The church is henceforth refrac-
tory to those encroachments. She turns
more and more toward the democratic
ideal-toward the law of liberty for all.
The United States exerts a profound infiu-
ence in this respect on the transformations
of Catholicism in Europe. No doubt the
allied governments may try to terrorize
the cardinals, but it will be in vain It is
not possible at present to foresee who
will be next pope, but the fol-
lowing are the dominant impressions
in competent circles: In ordinary
conditions, i.e., if the pope died tomorrow
without the present conditions being trans
formed it is infinitely probable that the
conceive of 1878 would repeat itself, that
is to say that the foreign cardinals allied
to the most moderate of the Roman and
italian cardinals would choose a concilia-
tory pope, modern and moderate. This
pope will probably be taken from among
the cardinals of the province, the cardinals
of the curia being too divided to come to
an agreement on a Roman name Under
extraordinary conditions, if the conclave
were held abroad and it should meet in the
midst of European complication, it is to
be presumed that the cardinals would
choose a neutral foreign pope, neither Ger
man, French, Austrian nor Italian. They
would take Belgian cardinal or an Amer
lean, an Englishman or Spaniard-in one
word, cardinal born in a country that
does not inspire international jealousy;
for example, Manning, Gibbons or
Goosena de Malinci. The hypothesis
of a foreign pope, it must be admitted,
presents itself more and more. That
which was formerly reasoning for choos-
ing an italian pope is now a reason for
taking a stranger-above all, if italian
unity is to be consolidated, and if papacy
is not to regain possession of Rome. 1t is
also necessary to bear in mind this capital
fact, that foreign cardinals will soon form
a majority in the sacred college. With
the development of Christianity in the col
onies the church will have need of cardin-
ais not only in the United States, in Aus
tralia and in Canada, but in the east, in
China, in India and in Africa. This ex-
pansion of Christianity will modify essen
TALLY the conditions of the conclave and
of the papacy. Further, the world becom-
ing Romanized, it is necessary that the
papacy should become universal, i. e., that
It should become more and more extra
Italian and extra-aational. In word, that
she should transform herself into an in
ternational institution.