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Conclave. Once kings and nobles, the lower clergy, even the Italian populace, helped elect Popes. In 1180 Pope Alexander III restricted the right to Cardinals alone.* Century later, when Cardinals meeting in Viterbo took nearly three years to elect a Pope, an indignant populace locked them up, deprived them of all food except bread and water. Hence the word conclave, meaning "with...
...wind up his campaign for election to the Brookline School Committee with a bang, Paul Korins '41 plans to give a "fireside chat" over the air Friday or Saturday. He has already distributed 9,000 pamphlets, printed tire covers and window stickers, sent personal cards to Brookline friends, and plastered bill boards of he town with "Elect Kerins for School Committee...
...college of cardinals in Rome will probably not elect a Pope strongly in favor of the Rome-Berlin axis, George La Piana, John H. Morrison Professor of Church History, predicted yesterday. What influence the American cardinals will have, if any, no one knows, he added...
...hardly likely that the cardinals will elect a pawn of Mussolini, "because today the college of cardinals is more representative of the whole church in the various countries of the world, and because the enthusiasm of many Italian cardinals for Mussolini has dampened...
After discarding from the list of 35 Italian cardinals the 15 who are too old and the dozen Cardinals of the Curia, who have little chance of being elected, the conclave will probably elect one of the eight cardinal bishops of residential sees, according to Professor La Piana...