The Calumet news., 1914-08-31
SeSSiOnInaugurated With ImpoS
ing Ceremony in Presence
Of 81 Cardinals
WILL CHOOSE ITALIAN
Generally Believed the Sacred
College Will Not Consider
a Foreign" Pope

Rome. Aug. 31.-The conclave of
cardinals to elect successor to Pope
Plus X, who died August 20, was iil-
augurated today with an imposing
ceremony.
Mass was celebrated in Pauline
chape, in the presence of fifty-seven
of the cardinals aud their conclavists.
There were present also members OF
the diplomatic corps, knights of Malta
and the aristocracy Of the papal court.
The Sistine choir sang the middle
cred, i'm Latin, an Grafton concerning
the election of "a pontiff.
Most Countries Represented.
The full membership of the sacred
college Of cardinals, which elects the
pope, is more international in its rep
resentation 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 66. only four
less than the maximum number allow
cd under the laws of the church and
three more than participated in his
own election in 1903. when there was
a record attendance of SO cardinals.
While the Sacred college is not a
representative body i'm "a strict sense
Of the word. this year nearly all the
countries are represented in 1t: South
America, the United States, Canada,
England, ireland, Holland. Belgium,
Portugal. Germany. Austria. Hungary,
Italy France and Spain-fourteen ma
tions in all. The orient has no car
dinal, neither has Russia, Africa, Aus
tralash nor Switzerland.
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
~ which might be said to represent
the allies" in the European war.
Cardinals Are Cosmopolitan.
While the world has been led to eX-
pect that the traditions of the Catholic
church will be maintained by the ele-
vation of an Italian and not foreign
er to the Papacy, the fact mas peen
overlooked that 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 cos
Cardinal Serahno Vannutelli. dean
Of the Sacred College, spent almost a
quarter of century in Mexico, Mu-
nich, Central and South America, Bel
gium and Vienna; his brother, Cardi-
nal Vincent Vannutelli, passed over
twenty years in Holland, Belgium,
Constantinople and Lisbon; Cardinal
A gliardi spent three years i'm India |
and four in Vienna; Cardinal di Pietro |
was for ten years in the Argentine,
Brazil, Munich, and Madrid; Cardinal
Sotti lived for three years in Brazil; |
Cardinal Ferrata has filed diplomatic
offices i'm Switzerland. Belgium and |
France; Cardinal Martinelli was sec
Dnd Apostolic delegate to the United
states: Cardinal Falconio was the |
third, and became a naturalized AM
srican citizen; and Cardinals Rinaldi-
nj. Lorenzelli. Gasparri, Vico. Bel
monte, and Serafini all had years of
experience outside of Italy. The only |
cardinals in curia, that is, attached |
directly to the head of the church in |
Rome, who have not spent part OF
heir lives abroad, are Cardinals De
L.ai. Cassetta, Della volpe, Cagiano,
3isleti, Pompili, Giustini. Lega and
recchi, all of whom have passed their
ives in various offices in the Roman
,uria.
Italians Hold Majority.
With all sc members of the college
present at the conclave 1t would re-
luire "A votes to elect. The rule is
hat an election does not take place