Sacred College
Britishnoun
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The Sacred College has dwindled to 49 members�24 Italian, 25 non-Italian.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bernardin is the only American among the 18 clerics who will be elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II at a special consistory on Feb. 2.
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Paul made the Sacred College in his own image, and he shunned the extremes.
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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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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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