Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-08-29
MANY NATIONS
REPRESENTED
College Of Cardinals More Inter.
national Than Ever Before
in Church's History.

Rome, Aug. 28.-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 X
brought the college up to 66, only four
less than the maximum number al.
lowed under the laws OF the church
and three more than participated in
his own election in 1903, when there
was a record attendance of GO cardi.
nails.
While the Sacred College is not a
representative body in a strict sense
of the word, this year nearly all the
countries are represented in it.: South
America, the United States, Canada,
England. Ireland, Holland, Belgium.
Portugal, Germany, Austria, Hungary,
Italy, France and Spain-fourteen ma
tons in all. The Orient has no car
iinal, neither has Russia, Africa,
Australia or 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
u which might bessaid to represent
the "allies'' in the European war.
While the world has been led to ex.
pect that the traditions Of the Catho-
lie church will be maintained by the
elevation of an Italian and not a for.
eigner to the Papacy, the fact has
been generally overlooked that q
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
% being cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan Men.
Cardinal Serafin0 Vannutelli, dean
Of the Sacred College, spent almost a
quarter Of a century in Mexico, Nun.
:ch, Central and South America, Bel
GUM and Vienna; his brother, Cardi.
nal Vincent Vannutelli, passed over
twenty years in Holland, Belgium,
Constantinople and Lisbon; Cardinal
Agliardf spent three years in India
and four in VIENNA Cardinal di Pie
.tr0 was for ten years in the Argen.
tine, Brazil, Munich, and Madrid:
Cardinal Gotti lived for three years in
Erazil; Cardinal Ferrata has filled d.
plomatic offices in Switzerland, Bel
GUM and France; Cardinal Martinez
II was second Apostolic Delegate to
the United States; Cardinal Falconic
was the third, and became a natural
lied American citizen; and Cardinals
Rinaldini. Lorenzelli Gasparri, vico,
Belmonte, and Serafini all had wears
Of experience outside Of Italy. The.
only cardinals in cluria, that is, at
tached directly to the head Of the
church in Rome, who have not spent
part Of their lives abroad, are Cardi-
nails De Loi, Cassetta, Della Volpe.
Cagiano, Bisleti, Pompili, Giustini,
Lega and Secchi. all Of whom have
passed their lives IN various offices
in the Roman Curia..A
With all sc members Of the college
present at the .c~onclave 1t would re-
quire A votes to elect. The rule is
that an election does not take place
until the candidate has recei-ed two
thirds of all the votes cast. With the
Italians holding the majority. and
With some of the foreign delegates alb
sent probably, it is generally suppos.
that the conclave will not serious
~ consider a foreign Pope at this
time. 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 TX, there
been altogether 105 Popes who
were Roman, 100 Italian other than
Roman, and 81 trans.Alpine or trans.
marine