Sacred College
Britishnoun
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The Sacred College of Cardinals now has only 42 members, the fewest in a century.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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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"Beyond those already listed," said John, "we have nominated as members of the Sacred College three other illustrious personages whose names we reserve to ourselves in pectore."
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The Sacred College will never make a prince of the Church of one whose name has been sullied by the slang of journalism.
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
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