FIVE CARDINALS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 34, 10 February 1930, Page 3

FIVE CARDINALS

POPE’S NEW APPOINTMENTS. ROME, Nov. 23. The Osservatore Romano, used by the Vatican for its announcements, prints the names of five eminent prelates, two Italians and three non-Italians, to be created Cardinals in secret and public consistories on December 16 and 19, respectively. Among them is Archbishop Armagh of Ireland wires Arnold Cortesi to the New York Times. The new Cardinals, in the order of seniority as given by the Osservatore, are Mgr. Emanuel Gonzales Cerejeira, named this week Patriarch of Lisbon; Mgr. Luigi Lavitrano, Archbishop of Palmero; Mgr. Carlo Minoretti, Archbishop of Genoa; Mgr. Joseph Alacrory, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland, and Mgr. Jean Verdier, newly designated Archbishop of Paris.

Number Is Below Expectation. The number of new Cardinals named is rather lower than was generally expected, since even after these new additions eight seats in the Sacred College of Cardinals will still remain vacant. Vatican custom requires that three or four places be left unfilled. It is expected another consistory will be held in the near future to make up the deficiency. It was noticed in Italy that the Pope will create three non-Italian and two Italian Cardinals. This will increase the preponderance of non-Italian Cardinals already existing in the Sacred College. With the new appointments the sacred College will be composed of twenty-nine Italians and thirty-three non-Italians. This runs counter to the tradition strictly observed by the Vatican in recent years of maintaining an exact balance between Italian and nonItalian members in the Sacred College. Some persons take the view that this departure marks a new policy on the part of the Vatican to emphasise its complete independence of Italian influences after the Italo-Vatican conciliation. The list of the new Cardinals announced to-day did not contain any surprises, unless there was surprise at nonappearance on the list of certain prominent prelates who were considered certain to be elevated to the Cardinalate. Among theese are Mgr. Pacelli, Papal Nuncio in Berlin, and Mgr. Tedeschini, Papal Nuncio, in Madrid, whose names do not appear on the Osservatore list. In many quarters it was also thought the Pope would create an Australian Cardinal.

POPE SHOWED WARMTH TO IRELAND. VATICAN CITY, Nov. 23. Pope Pius has let it be known that by elevating Archbishop Macrory to the Cardinalate he wished to show his affection for Ireland, “the mother of saints,” in the person of the incumbent of her historic Archdiocese, Armagh. It is understood that Archbishop Verdier will come here to receive the red hat from the Pope’s hands on December 19, instead of having it imposed by President Doumergue indirectly through another French Cardinal. MACRORY GETS FELICITATIONS. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, Nov. 23. Archbishop Macrory to-night was already receiving many telegrams and congratulations on his forthcoming elevation to the Cardinalate.