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The College of Cardinals and the Veto

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2009

Henry Bradford Washburn
Affiliation:
Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the EpiscopalTheological Schoolat, Cambridge

Extract

At the end of an article on State Interference in Papal Elections Herbert Thurston has expressed the hope that there might be a “new Papal Constitution affirming in explicit terms the absolute independence of conclaves” from the form of secular interference known as the Vetoor Right of Exclusion. The article was written after the elevation of Pius X, but before the publication of the Constitution Commissum Nobis. The latter was issued on January 20, 1904, and meets with gratifying precision the wishes of Father Thurston.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Church History 1914

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page 157 note 1 The Month, October, 1903.

page 158 note 1 Translated from the Latin text, which is reprinted in Die geltenden Papstwahlgesetze, ed. Giese, p. 36.Google Scholar

page 159 note 1 Revue des Deux Mondes, t. xx, 1904, p. 280.

page 159 note 2 Ibid., pp. 280 sq.

page 161 note 1 Wiseman, Recollections of the Last Four Popes, pp. 264 sq.

page 162 note 1 The Month, October, 1903.

page 162 note 2 Die kaiserliche Exclusive im Konklave Innozenz XIII, Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Academie der Wissenschaften in Wien, 170, B.5.

page 164 note 1 Wahrmund in Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Academie der Wissenschaften, 170, B. 5, p. 12, n. 1.

page 165 note 1 This principle again has been accepted from that time to this by cardinals and kings.

page 166 note 1 Wahnnund, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Exclusionsrechtes, 1890.

page 169 note 1 Lucius Lector, Le Conclave, p. 535.

page 172 note 1 Wurm, Die Papstwahl, p. 85.