Sacred College
Britishnoun
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Thanks to Pius XII's indifference to Vatican administrative detail, the Sacred College was then sadly depleted; so many cardinals were near death's door that the choice easily narrowed to a handful of prospects.
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This symbolic ranking of cardinal-bishops, cardinal-priests and cardinal-deacons is still preserved in the Sacred College, although by canon law all Princes of the Church must be at least priests.
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For the first time in four centuries the Sacred College of Cardinals had been specially summoned to discuss church affairs.
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There he received the Christmas felicitations of a score of cardinals, delivered in a speech by Gennaro Granito Cardinal Pignatelli di Bel-nionte, 81, dean of the Sacred College.
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Similarly neither the consent nor the vote of the Sacred College is required.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
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