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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 187, 2 May 1908, Page 11

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SELECTION OF CANDIDATES. Tho Romo correspondent • of the. " StaiK dard" says it is reported'.tiiat-.tho'.Consis- .... Tory, which had been announced for April, has been postponed cither to June/-or even until, the.- end of the year,;, owing to' tho .. ; difficulty of selecting tho.now Cardinals, who will. bo mostly non-Italian, as at present tho proportion ;iri tho Sacred College is thirty- , tivo '.Italians i : to : twenty-five:; ..non-Italians. > Franco,'• Spain,', and-. Austria .-havo. each their ; normal number of Cardinals,; but; Germany; needs'ono' to make her representation, equal. Tho Gorman candidate will be, in all probability, Bishop Schneider, who. now occupies '■■/ tho See of l'aderborn, one of ..tho. oldest'.-; Bishoprics: in Germany. . Tho' occupant of this Seo used to be a I'rincc of the German Empire, tintil tho beginning of tho last/'ceii- : tury. Ho possessed even temporal. dominion.". .Thtf greatest difficulty socmsto make provi- ■ • sion for tho claims of-England, which haa' •' boe>n'without a .Cardinal sineo the death .of, • Cardinal Yaughan. " The Pope is credited with a desire to honour tho Abbot Gasquet, but to do so would bo difficult without conferring a lied Hat on Archbishop Bourne, o£ Westminster, as such a step would appeal; to be. a slight on tho English Roman l'rimato. Lccal difficulties havo hitherto . prevented' tho ... elevation of Dr. Bourne. A Canadian Cardinal is spoken of, in which case choice would• fall on: cither. Archbishop Begin, of-Quebco, • or Archbishop Bruchesij of Montreal. V