Word: plenum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roman Catholics some 400 years ago as Adrian VI (1522-23), but his successors have all been Italians. Their names are the historic name of Italy: Medici, Borghese, Chigi, Rospigliosi. . . . Last week, as the Consistory of Dec. 20 approached, it was rumored that His Holiness would raise the plenum (total number) of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 70 to 80, and appoint a sufficient number of non-Italian Cardinals to make the election of a non-Italian Pope a practicable possibility...
...Sacred College was practically "full" with 65 Cardinals last week. Sixty-five is the usual number, for that permits a new Pope the traditional satisfaction of creating several Cardinals of his own choosing without exceeding the plenum of 70. In short, there is a clamor, mild and respectful but persistent, from the ends of the earth that the Supreme Pontiff increase the number of his Senate to at least...
Soon after the "Dean of Cardinals" had voiced his vain hope, there came a crisp announcement from the Holy Office. His Holiness will not raise the plenum of the Sacred College at present. Moreover only two new Cardinals? both Italians?will be created...
Died. Cardinal Sili, 80, cousin of the famed Papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Gasparri; at Rome. His death leaves five vacancies in the sacred college, which now is composed of 34 Italian and 31 foreign cardinals. It is the custom of the Pope never to reach the college's "plenum" of 70 members...