Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deans. The College of Cardinals last week had 62 members, of whom 40 were in Rome-either because they live and work there or because they, along with most of Italy's bishops, had gone there for what was to have been a world-wide celebration: the 17th anniversary...
One dean, however, was not in Rome last week. He was William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston. Twice Cardinal O'Connell has missed a papal election by not getting to Rome soon enough. The second time, in 1922, he missed it by no more than an...
Uncertain whether he would reach Rome before the doors to the conclave are locked (probably between February 25 and March 1), Cardinal O'Connell this week was to sail for Italy. His colleagues, George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago and Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia, departed last week on the...
Papabile. In the corridors of the Vatican, as over Roman dinner tables, there was much talk last week of who among the Cardinals was papabile (in line for the papacy), who were the most able papeggianti (promoters of candidacies). Some thought there was a better chance for a non-Italian...
Conservative observers, however, looked for the election of an Italian archbishop, not too old, such as Milan's Cardinal Schuster, Venice's Patriarch-Cardinal Piazza, Turin's Cardinal Fossati-or even Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli, despite the fact that Secretaries of State have in recent years seldom been...