The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-12-06
Cardinals In Embte.

l - SuA IOuSly tuOuSu lame humOur,
usually so busy in Rome, speaks OF
the creation of only one Italian Car.
dinal and two foreigners at the
approaching Consistory, viz, Bishop
La Fontsine, who holds the Commits
sion for the reform of the Breviary
Mexican and Canadian. She might
include few others in her list, con
sidering that the Sacred College is
reduced to fifty eight.
Archbishop Sbaretti, Secretary OF
the s. G. Congregation of the Index
is eligible. on the strength of his
years as Apostolic Delegate Of Can.
ada, and Of his labors for the
Church before he went there and
after he left the Dominion. And the
huge, robust form Of the servite pre-
late promises even more work than
yer. He is an Italian, but there is q
German whose chances of being
chosen for the honors and burdens
of the purple are quite as sure. For
many years father Esser C.P., Secre-
tary of the s. Congregation of the
Index, has been spoken of in this
respect. The Dominicans have nc
Cardinal, and Father Esser's exper
fence of English-speaking countries
as we'll as that acquired as Professor
of Philosophy at Maynooth, will rem
der him invaluable to the Haly Sea
For long time journalists, always
generous in the distribution of car
dinalitlal hats, nominated Abbot Gas
quet for the Senate of the Church,
but of late they have ceased to do SO.
do not think Abbot Gasquet will be
j created cardinal, even though the
Benedictines are not now represented
in the Pope's Council, besides his
work at the Revision of the Vulgate
does not permit any change.
The Senior Princes Of the Church.
"A Prince of the Church, like the
Pope, is never old. Romans still say
Leo Kill would be alive yet if his
physicians had treated him in the
beginning of his illness as they did
towards the end. But still one must
say that Cardinal Oreglia, Dean of
the Sacred College, the only surviv-
ing creation Of Plus TX, is old, not
because he is going into his eighty
sixth year, but because His Eminence
has been confined to his residence
for yeans by infirmities, and may be
said to have relinquished all part in
the government Of the Church. Car
dinal 9Di Pietro is young yet, though
he can point triumphantly to being
two. months older than Cardinal
Oreglia. You can still see his small.
spare figure in the office Of the Da.
taria every morning. On the contrary,
you can scarcely say Cardinal Sera.
fino vannuteIi is young. not because
he has seen his seventy-ntnth year on
Nov. %, but because he has been Ill
for q considerable time. His brother,
Cardinal Vincenzo, two years young
er, is as tall. straight, and light as
he has been for dozen years.
Cardinal Logue, Archbishop Of Ar
magh, IS only seventy-three and
working away, SO he may be well
included in the category Of young
prelates, and so is Cardinal Gibbons,
Archbishop of Baltimore, head Of the
Church in the New World. Those ten
mile walks have stored his Emfnence
we'll, and Cardinal Farley also comes
under the same pleasant heading as
the last two princes, although there
are cardinals younger In years who
can. scarcely be written on the list
which one would like to make much
longer.