THE CONSISTORY IN MARCH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 775, 26 March 1910, Page 9

THE CONSISTORY IN MARCH.

'CARDINALS TO BE CREATED. . This time it seems to be' really prob- ' able (says "The Tablet") that the Con- • sistory will be held in March, and that a considerabln number of. Cardinals will \ be created in it, but so far the infor- ■ mation about the. future Princes of the ' Church "is extremely vague. Three are ', mentioned as certain.' The first is Mgr. J Bisleti,'Majordomo to his Holiness, and his nomination is something of a sur- ' prise because last summer 1 the Holy ' Father declared that' Mgr. Bisleti would 1 certainly he raised to the .Sacred Col- \ lege, _ but; not; at: tho next' Consistory,' i ashis services in his: present position . would be necessary for.'.some, timo longer. The next is Mgr. Lugari, As- '.. sossor of tho Holy Office. ■ Under the [ old regime these two positions were what is known as ■ "cardinalitial," but l . although thoy have lost that character 1 their present incumbents. merit the high [ honour for their personal merits. The 't third is Mgr. Mendez Bello, Patriarch > of Lisbon, whose nomination is quite ■ assured by the Concordat, between the ' Holy See and Portugal. It would.bo ■ easy to mention' half • a dozen other . great ecclesiastics, some of whom, or all of whom, will be raised to tho purple ; next month, but it has not been pos- : sible so far >to obtain any good infor- ,• mation on the point. There are now, sinco the death of Cardinal Satolli, . eighteen vacancies in the Sacred College, and there are only • twenty-two Cardinals in Curia as compared with the.thirty of Leo XIII's time. -■-.