What is "cardinals"

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And that one of the terms of the settlement that ended the schism was that the new Pope, now of holy memory, would ratify the elevation of all these cardinals, no matter which claimant had made the appointments.

This was done, and there are now six hundred eighteen cardinals on the continent, some of them not even bishops, a few not even priests.

The city of Valana was too small to be a gracious host to hundreds of cardinals with their secretaries, servants, and alternates.

The practice was made possible by a canon which had been enacted for the convenience of foreign, not domestic, cardinals, but the latter took advantage of it during long periods of interregnum.

The messenger who brought the letter, however, got mildly drunk in Sanly Bowitts and expressed his own opinion of the affair: either the cardinals would all appoint conclavists and go home for the winter, leaving a hopeless deadlock, or would elect an ill old man who could be expected to die before settling any real problems.

He and the soldier stopped for refreshments with them, then continued southward with a summons for Abbot Jarad and other cardinals across the Brave River.

While they were indeed looked upon with horror by the cardinals of the Society, there was hardly any conclavist who was not looked upon with horror by somebody.

There were other married cardinals, of course, but most of them were laymen or deacons, and most left the wives at home.

A quorum of cardinals had not yet arrived, but among those already in town, several had fallen sick.

Tuesday of Holy Week, the Dean of the Sacred College appeared on the balcony of Saint John-in-Exile and promised a turbulent mob of jeering people that the conclave would begin as soon as 398 cardinals were present.

Masses were concelebrated with all able cardinals present, and many of the religious processions were real.

A quarter of the seats near the front had been roped off for the cardinals, but was still half empty when the campus bell tolled three.

He spoke brief words of welcome, then invited cardinals who wished their servants to sit beside them to call them forward, and the rest of the audience to move forward to fill empty spaces.

First the cardinals assembled in the great Cathedral to offer Mass together, then left the building in procession to cross the square and enter the palace where the election was to occur.

Now there were more cardinals than there were Churches in New Rome and Valana combined.