| Show WHO WILL BE THE NEXT POPE IN last oswald keatinge 8 T D presented in the sydney australia quarterly magazine Maga seine an able article upon the efforts of the Cat catholic holle church to again become mistress of the world he asserted that her prospects were fair for the attainment of that gigantic object and held that popular forms of rule presented to her the best fields of operation in relation to the greater opportunities afforded the mammoth organization for the accumulation of power under democracy we have expressed the same opinion late developments exhibit its correctness As a branch of his subject mr keatinge endeavors to answer the question who will be the next pope and draws this pen picture of what must be ilia his essential qualifications whoever is ia chosen will be the no nominee of the jesuits who now practically control the whole catholic church we H e will be a man devoted to their interests a man of parts and experience a tried administrator of conciliating temper yet inflexible determination one popular with the people to whom they now look as the main factor in all political combinations one not too old to do plenty of work and belonging to a nationality which will command the respect of all the cabinets of europe then he explores to find the man who will fill this ideal thus looking at the ut lit of cardinals who to la the man who combines all these qualifications ficat ions in himself the italian and french cardinals are all old and of no mark beyond their respective localities their names are hardly known even to catholics there is a lex non script of precedent which precludes the nomination of an englishman or of any british subject this limitation excluded the very ablest among the cardinals at the last election to wit manning at the next it would exclude exclude moran the only man left therefore is cardinal gibbons archbishop of baltimore the law excluding british subjects does not affect an american and he is every way able this man has the mighty influence of the jesuits behind him he is immensely popular not only with the eleven millions of catholics in the united states and with irishmen his own conn thymen by birth everywhere but also with tle the protestants and others as a wise and patriotic citizen his accession to the papal throne would be regarded as a democratic triumph for he is known to be intent intensely iely democratic and boasts as much of his plebeian origin an aa some men do of their ancestors he is of the peo people le and heart and them he could command more money than any other cardinal ey than half of them put together san francisco alone furnishes fur pUbes fifty catholic millionaires and these theme are practically masters of the millions which are now being dug out or lie still concealed in the inexhaustible gold id and silver mines of california and bev nevada in this age when money is the great god of the world the longest purse has the best beat chance in everything money will make wrong right crime virtue black white and the worse appear tle the better reason cardinal gibbons cr no is also a man of great capacity of engaging manners combining the ast best qualities of the american and irishman and a born ruler of men I 1 I 1 A dispatch published a few days ago in id relation to the approaching conclave shows that the australian writer may be correct in his guess regarding the A notable personage connected with the catholic church at ro bouw 0 o is represented as ag having suggested suggested Ed the probability of the choice of successor to pope leo being a foreigner sod and he confined the selection to but three names named Manni manning Dg gibbons and Mali Mal noi it concludes thus the world is becoming womanized Romani zed and it is necessary that papacy shoula should become universal from this it is evident that the pope can no longer be ox exclusively clu italian manning and gibbons have especially gained in ecclesiastical opinion during these latter times Cardi cardinal rial gibbons is a man of ability and learning leaning but his liberality and breadth have been placed in question by the unreasonable aad we might say flay without inte intending to be offensive bigoted attitude assumed by him in relation to the church of jesus christ of latter day saints this is exemplified in the 3 latest of his published borka aur lour christian herita heritage e it is ie no christian heritage tage for one church to make war upon another |
