The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
Pope Plus Will Call consistory in the
Spring When Number of
New Names VIII be
Called.
TWO FROM AMERICA
Archbishop ireland Of Saint Paul and
Monsignor Bruches Of Mon
treal Are Men
toned.
by Henry Wood, Rome correspond
ent of the United Press

ent of the United Press.l
ROME, Feb. 2S.--Pope Plus has
just completed plans for the holding
in the early spring of another consis
tory for the creation Of new cardinals
Because of his holiness advanced age
it is considered most probable that
this is the last consistory he will ever
hold. Entirely aside from that, how
ever, the event, for two especial
reasons, will have an unusual signifi.
canoe and Importance. In the first
place it is expected that Pope Plus
will raise to the purple number of
prelates almost equal to those created
in his famous consistory of 1911, and
in the second place it will be this new
blood injected into the membership
of the sacred college that will de-
|termine largely the character of the
pope likely to be elected to succeed
Pope Plus. AS consequence, the
levent is being looked forward to with
keener interest in vatican circles
| than has been aroused by any other
..
The necessity of assembling the
sacred college at this time for the
creation of new members has come
about largely by the unusual number
of deaths which have taken place
amongst the princes of the chruch
during the past two years. When
Pope Plus created nineteen new card
inals in November, 1911, bringing the
membership of the sacred college up
! to sixty-six, it was generally con-
coded that that body as then consti-
ltuted would be the one that would be
called upon to elect successor to
Pope Plus.
Since then, however. eleven card
mails have died, and six OF these in
the past year alone. AS matter OF
fact Pope Plus entire pontificate has
been marked by an unusually high
death rate amongst the princes of the
church. and his holiness, in the ten
years he has been pope, has been
called upon to create forty-four mem
bers Of the sacred college which is
now reduced to fifty-fve members in
stead of the full seventy.
i This unusual number OF deaths
amongst the cardinals, however, would
not be so important were it not fol
the especial character of the mer
4 who have died Naturally, almos
without exception, these have been
the cider cardinals-those created b.
Pope Plus TX and Pope Leo x ant
cardinals, such as Oreglia and Rom
polla, who represented the reaction
airy policies and tendencies OF those
popes. The deaths in the sacred col
lege the past two years have now al
but obliterated the old school of car
dinals cardinals who came largel,
from noble or at least aristocratit
families-and when Pope Plus hat
made his new nominations at the com
ing consistory, the sacred college will
be essentially a democratic institu
ton. With the exception of one o
two cardinals who come from oil
noble families, the entire membership
will be Of men who have worked thei
way UP from the humblest capacitie
in very much the same manner tina
Pope Plus himself rose from peasan
to pontiff.
From inner sources at the vatican
it is learned that Pope Plus has i
mind the creation of not less than te
cardinals, thus bringing the member
ship of the sacred college back t
| sixty-fve. Should he also announc
the name Of Mendes Bello, whose els
walton to the purple is still Gin pei
| tore" it would place the membershi
at sixty-six.
| OF the new cardinals to be create
| it is expected that at least two wi
be Americans. One of these will.
all probability be Monsignor Pa,
Bruchesi. archbishop of Montrea
| Canada for a number of years pas
has been entitled to cardinal b,
the post has been left vacant. Tn
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