The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-28
CONSISTORY IN JANUARY
TO FILL 23 VACANCIES IN THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS THREE AMERICANS ARE
 MENTIONED.
Pope Plus x In View of Condition of His Health Not Likely to Post pone Important COnclave-Where POntiff Will Be Buried.

practically decided to call a consls- tory in January to fill the twenty three vacancies now existing in the College of Cardinals is stated in high Vatican circles. The result has been an immediate revival in speculation concerning the church dgnitaries most likely to receive red hats.
 l One thing which seems almost a certainty that the Catholic Church in America will be accorded fuller repre- sentation than it has ever had before. Those most prominently mentioned for | elevation to the purple are Archbishop | Ireland, Archbishop Quigley, of Chi cago and Archbishop Farley, of New York. Europeans whom churchmen think sure of appointements are Mon | signor Granite di Belmonte, former | nuncio at Vienna; Monsignor Bislet- | ii, present major-domo to the Pope;
 and Monsignor Bello. patriarch of | Lisbon.
 | Pope Plus recent illness is said to have had much to do with determining | him hastening the calling of a consis- tory. To close friends His Holiness | is said to have intimated that his ill.,
 ness forced him to realize the possi- | bility of death at no very distant day | and that one of his duties as supreme
 pontiff is to supply the necessary el-
 ement, representative of the entire Catholic world, in the Sacred College,
 for the choice of his successor.
 | With seventy odd Cardinals in the 1 Sacred College, each of whom was el-
 igible to the Holy See and each of
 whom has a large number of atives
 and large following of personal sup
 porters it naturally follows that the death of the pope and election of | a successor carried with it a decided amount of personal interest to a good | ly portion of Rome's Catholic popu- l lation.
 | With the elevation of the last two
 popes. Leo XIII and Plus X, however, all of this was changed Pope Leo failed to take into the papal house hold any of his relatives or support
 CTS. On the former he settled his pri-
 vate fortune but none was allowed
 any emoluments out of the church l funds and his supporters did not even come in for a reward from his own
 limited personsal funds.
 The same policy was followed by Pope Plus. The immediate members
 of his family still occupy the same 1 humble positions they occupied in life
 when Giuseppe Sarto Zscame priest,
 then cardinal, then patriarch of Ven | ice, and then Pope. None of them have profited by penny out of the
 church funds as the result of his ele- vation to the. papacy and as Pope Plus | himself was not candidate for the papacy before the conclave, which elected him it naturally followed that
 he had no supporters to reward. l With this new order of things fully l established now by two Popes it is
 considered unlikely that the old GUS toms will ever bel revived and there | fore although Rome in a way is as | keenly interested as ever in the pos sible death of a Pope the interest is now lacking in the element of hoped l for personal gain.
 l By expressing the wish that his body be given a final resting place in, St. Peters, which adjoins the Vatican and
 in which forty of his. predecessors are already buried, Pope Plus has obvi- 1 ated the possibility of a repetition
 of the distressing scenes which followed
 the removal of the body of Pope Plus
 TX about 20 years ago from St. Peters | to the church of San Lorenzo outside i the city walls, and as a result of which the body of the late Pope Leo | is still at St. Peters.
 | For centuries past it has been the custom of the Popes to express before their death the name of the church they wish their remains to have as a | the church of Saint John Lateran
 which is the highest ranking cathedral
 in the Catholic church, being the l Pope's own basilica. In accordance
 also, with the established custom, his body was given temporary resting place in St. Peters in a tomb that is 1 maintained for that especial purpose
 until his tomb at. St. John Lateran l should be completed. This tomb has
 now been in readiness for about two years but the body of Pope Leo still | reposes in St. Peters and it is believed
 that it was to prevent the repetition of such situation as well as the causes that have kept the transfer from being made that Pope Plus has expressed his desire to be buried in | St. Peters
 The failure to remove the body of
 Pope Leo to St. John L4ateran is due
 to the fear of repetition of the demon | stration by the lower political parties of Rome which followed the removal
 of the body of Pope Plus TX, the pred
 ecessor of Pope Leo, to the church of
 San LorneZo. The transfer took place
 at night and the funeral cortege was attacked by large crowd of the low | CT classes of the city, subjected to distressing indignities and it was even
 feared for a time that the body might | not reach San Lorenzo in safety al- | though this was finally accomplish l ed. 1 Pope Leo himself witnessed the dis | tressing affair from his windows in | the Vatican and it is declared to have made profound impression on him. Nevertheless, he expressed the desire | that his own body should be buried l outside St. Peters but the Vatican l demonstration and Pope Plus has defi-
 nitely decided to obviate the possibil- l ity of such a demonstration in his
 own case by asking for interment in | St. Peters,
 1 The terrific heat of the past sum-
 mer in Rome, which has been one of 1 the hottest the city has had for years has served again to emphasize the position in which the Pope is placed l by the failure of the Italian govern ment to create for the Catholic church | an independent political state over which the Pope would be the temporal
 ruler and which would obviate what | the Pope now considers his impris-
 onment within the walls of the Vati- | can and the Vatican gardens.
 During the heated season in Rome absolutely everyone in Vatican, Quir- | ianl, business and social circles leaves 1 the city, the Pope alone being obliged | to remain because of his imposed inn
 prisonment It is pointed out that Pope Leo died during the heated term
 of 1903 and the serious illness of Pope Plus during the recent heated term is | cited as another reason for the church | beine granted a. temDOral kinpdom