THE NEXT CONCLAVE
Navone, John
civilized world to moral outrage moves McLaughlin to We understand that Cleary did not "go public" on a clerical cover-up. This is how the Doctor has used McLaughlin without seeing...
...Pericle There are 249 parishes, of which 113 are entrusted Felice, the brilliant ex-secretary general of the Second to diocesan priests and 131 to religious...
...on the city of Rome's clerical population...
...Pignedoli is perhaps too close to Paul VI, and so on...
...Among the resident bishops, according to Falconi, there is only one serious candidate: Michele Pellegrino, Archbishop of Turin...
...J. N. many cardinals...
...radical shift in voting power...
...If not, they could not be records, go to jail, and return to the peace movement...
...Until the time of John the two Americas, 22 in Europe, 15 in Asia and 4 in XXIII, there were less than 70...
...264 other collaborators (assistants) who reside in For each of the three Italians there is a strong obthe parishes...
...nor has Cardinal Alfrink of the Netherlands been forgotten for his protest ROMAN BOX SCORE against the rigidity of certain church structures...
...The Spanish and, until recently, Portuguese candidates would be under the shadow of totalitarian In keeping with the usual practice, Commonweal regimes (in the case of the Portuguese, even a colonial- will again appear on alternate weeks during the summer months...
...tradition of having the Pope elected from the Church L'Espresso (April 7), an Italian weekly magazine, re- of Rome itself...
...There are is the third strong Italian candidate...
...Neverhis talents...
...The total number of those who work jection: Baggio (61 years old) is too young...
...77 episcopal conferences would rep- ible for participation in a conclave this year (8 exceed resent developing nations and 49 would represent West- the age limit), there is only one exponent of the Third ern nations...
...patriarch of the Eastern rite eligible for the conclave, The hypothesis for these conjectures is that the next hardly over 30 Third World Prelates who would be mem- conclave will take place exclusively within the confines bers of the conclave...
...From then on we Charles Journet, is too old to take part in the conclave...
...On the McLaughlin political philosophy, regime in the Philippines...
...Perhaps Father McLaughlin to live in a less conspicuous Washtoo he forgot the varied pattern of Jesuit activity that ington apartment, to draw up a budget appropriate to would seem to establish precedent for McLaughlin's his work and return the rest of his $30,000 salary to position: Jesuits both oppose and support the Marcos his province...
...This hypothesis immedi- University, Rome...
...Italian citizens...
...Felice's for the "care of souls" in Roman parishes is, among work on a Lex Fundamentalis for the Church displeased ecclesiastics and seminarians, 1,173...
...Highly trustworthy Vaticanologist Carlo Falconi, in his article "Should the Vatican sources, according to Falconi, on the other hand, Conclave Open Tomorrow" (L'Espresso, April 7), be- affirm that Paul VI is seriously planning to reform papal lieves that a new Pope from a very strong nation or elections...
...Africa has 8 cardinals, Asia 9 and Latin Amer- tice, visited each parish of Turin, listening for hours as ica 13...
...World: Angelo Cardinal Rossi, Prefect of the Propa14 June 1974: 324 his contestation of a few years ago...
...00000 00 0000000 PAPAL SWEEPSTAKES THE NEXT CONCZAVS The age and recently poor health of the Holy Father Others feel that the time has come to return to the has Rome buzzing with talk about the next conclave...
...now the cardinal electors Australia...
...According to certain "indiscretions"-L'Es- selection for such an important post...
...conferences listed in the Annuario Pontificio (The Ponti- The next conclave will certainly be characterized by a fical Year Book) for this year, 31 are in Africa, 24 in relatively large number of voters...
...With respect to the configuration of a tradi- number 110, and to their ranks will be added laymen...
...5 are en- Vatican Council and present President of the Commistrusted to secular institutes...
...Perhaps he did not thoroughly and reflection all indicate Cleary's inexperience and perthink through the implications of this for politically in- haps a distorted notion of what can be accomplished by volved priests everywhere who theoretically could also prayer...
...If the subsidiary sion for the Reform of the Code of Canon Law, is frechurches (i.e., a second church entrusted to a pas- quently mentioned...
...Sergio Pignedoli, former diplomat in tor) are included, the total number of churches the two Americas and Africa, an ex-auxiliary bishop of comes to 881...
...tional conclave, Paul VI's new plan would represent a The cardinals will represent large new areas of the globe...
...Thus there are, including the only cardinal- workers explain their problems to him...
...According to this This plan disturbs those of the Curia who oppose the view, the Church should have a democratic, republican change it would make in the proportion of Western and structure: a "representative" head and an executive parThird World electors...
...In reply, many say presso's expression for "leaks" from Vatican officials- that the Pope should be no more than the symbol of the electoral body will be composed of 119 clergy (104 Catholic unity...
...financial and other temporal affairs...
...But his religious superior, the Society when the Society had already tacitly conFather Richard Cleary, S.J., felt compelled to inter- doned his activities, and to suggest that McLaughlin vene...
...In the fifth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles the warhawk views for years...
...civilized world to moral outrage moves McLaughlin to We understand that Cleary did not "go public" on a clerical cover-up...
...Africa and Asia outnumber those of Europe and North As matters now stand, of the 31 Curia cardinals eligAmerica combined...
...Cardinal Suenens of Belgium has not been forgotten for will resume our normal weekly publishing schedule...
...The Europeans would lose The greater numbers and new areas imply the increased their hegemony and be replaced by the dominance of problem of maintaining secrecy on the elections, its allinon-Europeans...
...They note that of the 96 episcopal liament...
...The former are subdivided as fol- of religions, enjoys excellent relations with the Curia, lows: 36 cardinals, 90 archbishops and bishops, 463 where he is in charge of the Secretariat for Non-Believpriests incardinated in the diocese of Rome, 1271 ers...
...Montini in Milan, ex-secretary of the Propaganda Fide There are 257 pastors, 601 assistant priests, and and now president of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, 51 seminarians who work as assistants...
...stopped...
...however, the objection is raised that ported that Paul VI is planning to establish a new basis such a restricted conclave, drawing only from the diofor the constitution of the electoral body of the next cese of Rome, would not suffice to guarantee an adequate conclave...
...ately eliminates as credible candidates cardinals from the United States and socialist nations...
...Austria's prestigious Cardinal Franz Koenig, a brilThere are 5,127 ecclesiastics and 15,000 sisters liant diplomat and most well-informed on the history residing in Rome...
...He invited his subject home to pray and reflect might somehow be straightened out by a week of prayer with him about his life...
...His age -69 years-is held ideal...
...This is how the Doctor has used McLaughlin without seeing him privately first...
...The same argument holds, in the European context, for the Germans Summer Schedule and French...
...The traThe Roman newspaper, Paese Sera (April 10, ditionalist cardinals of the Curia do not forget these 1974), published the following interesting statistics things...
...Commonweal: 325...
...By that rule McLaughlin can't last very long...
...prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops...
...but Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, ment...
...He has Western nations: 33 Europeans and 15 among Ameri- marched with strikers, refused benefits from industrialists cans and Canadians, together with 3 from Australia and that might compromise the Church's stand on social jusOceania...
...Of all the nonextra-diocesan priests, 3362 religious (priests), and Italian candidates, Cardinal Koenig would seem to be 31 priests of secular institutes...
...The vast majority of cardinals are from cardinals, is the most loved by the working class...
...Switzerland, Austria, and the Benelux would, then, seem to be favored...
...It would also be noted that the 29 There are 462 religious institutes for men with a Italian cardinals eligible for the conclave are a minority population of 5,452 members, of whom 1,939 are among the 110 participants...
...Congressman Robert F. Drin- high priests wanted to kill Peter and the apostles for an, S.J., has been free to work for Nixon's impeach- their preaching...
...There are 588 religious institutes Falco concluded that among the three most eligible for women, 1,092 houses of religious, 189 genera- Italians, in their order of eligibility, the first is Sebastiano lates (headquarters), with a resident population, al- Cardinal Baggio, ex-Archbishop of Cagliari in Sardinia, ready indicated, of 15,000 sisters and 1,200 novices...
...In fact, the episcopal conferences of ances and clashes preceding the ultimate decision...
...Oregon's Daniel Lyons, S.J., religious superiors had best apply what we call Gamaliel's with right-wing financing, has been free to expound his Rule...
...theless, for the provincial to suddenly raise questions We think McLaughlin would have burned himself out, about McLaughlin's life style and job status "permisdestroyed his usefulness by an unending flow of ridicu- sion" when his activities have been public knowledge lous statements-such as his recently expressed willing- for years, and to suggest that he might be dismissed from ness to perform exorcisms...
...JOHN NAVONE "system" would encounter considerable diffidence from (Father John Navone, SJ., teaches at the Gregorian among the other great powers...
...Pellegrino, among all ganda Fide...
...however, the Swiss cardinal, June 28, July 12, July 26, August 9, August 23, September 6 and September 20...
...and Dan Berrigan, S.J.-once he returned from stood up and argued that if what the apostles were Latin American exile-has been free to napalm draft saying was false it would fail...
...of the Sacred College of Cardinals...
...the most papabile...
...be summoned home to pray before voting on impeach- Father Cleary should simply and privately direct ment, health insurance, abortion or school aid...
...Forthcoming issues will be dated ist regime...
...he should restrict his interventions to representatives of the various episcopal conferences plus extraordinary cases, and delegate to a curia composed some cardinals of the Curia) and an unspecified number of international experts the management of diplomatic, of laymen...
Vol. 100 • June 1974 • No. 14
