The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-30
COLLEGE Of
CARDINALS IN
ALL COUNTRIES
ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY REP.
RESENTED IN BODY FROM
WHICH POPE is CHOSEN-THE
NUMBER OF CARDINALS is &c.

Rome, Aug. 29.-The full member.
ship OF the sacred college of cardi-
nails which elects the pope is more
international in its representation
than at any time in the history of
the church.
With the creation of thirteen new
cardinals last May, Pope Plus Y
brought the college up to &C, only
four less than the maximum number
allowed under the laws of the church
and three more than participated
in his own election in 1903, when
there was record attendance Of G3
cardinals.
While the sacred college is not a
representative body in strict sense
of the word this year nearly all the
countries are represented in il:
South America, United States, Can
ada, England, lrelan, Holland, Bel
gium, Portugal, Germany Austria.
| Hungary, Italy, France and
Spain-fourteen nations in all. The
Orient has no cardinals, neither has
Russia, Africa, Australasia or Swift
zerland.
Twenty Of the present cardinals
are from five of the warning nations
of Europe: Austria-Hungary having
6 and Germany 2, as against a total of
II which might be said to repre-
sent the "allies" in the European
war.
While the world has been led to
expect that the traditions of the
Catholic church will be maintained
by the elevation of an Italian and
not a foreigner to the papacy, the
fact has been generally overlooked
that a large number of the present
Italian princes of the church. from
among whom the pope is said to be
most likely to be chosen, might lay
claim to being cosmopolitan.
| Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli, dean
of. the Sacred College, spent almost
a quarter of a century in Mexico,
Munich, Central and South Ameri-
ca, Belgium and Vienna; his brother,
Cardinal Vincent Vannutelli, passed
over twenty years in Holland, Bel
gium ,Constantinople and Lisbon;
Cardinal Agliardi spent three years
in India and four in Vienna; Cardi-
nal d Pietro was for ten years in
Argentine, Brazil Munich and Mad
rid; Cardinal Gotti lived for three
years in Brazil; Cardinal Ferrata has
| filled diplomatic Offices in Switzer-
land and France Cardinal Martinell
was second apostolic delegate to the
| United States; Cardinal Falconio was
the third, and became a naturalized
| American citizen, and Cardinals Rim
| aldini, LOrenZell, Gasparri, VicO,
Belmonte, and Serafiini all had years
of experience outside of Italy. The
only cardinals in curia, that is, at
tached directly to the head of the
church in Rome, who have not spent
part of their lives abroad, are Car
dindls de Lali, Cassetta, Della Nolpe,
Cagiano, Bfblhu. Pompili, Giustini,
| C1,a,1,; oil ng trrbn haN a
passed their lives in various offices
in the Roman Curia.
With all Go members of the college
present at the conclave it would re-
quire A votes to elect. The rule is
that an election does not take place
until a candidate has received two
thirds of all the votes cast With
the Italians holding the majority,
and with some of the foreign dele
gates absent probably, ii is gener-
ally supposed that the pontiff to be
elected is the 257th in the history of
the church, and it is interesting to
note that of those previously recorded
excepting the thrice elected Benedict
IX., there have been altogether 105
popes who were Roman, 100 Italian
other than Roman and 80 trans-Alpine
or trans-marine.
OF the cardinals composing the
present college, forty-siX, or more
than two-thirds. were the creation
of Plus Y. while the remaining twen-
ty received their honors at the hands