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a certain amount of power, which is even greatly increased when it is applied to a corporate body. But it breaks down under the strain of the temptations to which those are exposed to whom so great a business as the election of a Pope is entrusted. Given the necessity of having a Pope, it would probably be impossible to devise a better means of getting one than that which the Church has gradually perfected. But she attempts the impossible; and her efforts to secure her aim, though they have been to a great degree successful, have resulted in an amount of false pretence, solemn sham, hypocrisy, and substitution of pompous appearance for reality, the long story of which makes the account of these Conclaves somewhat humiliating reading for the believer in human perfectibility.

INDEX.

A.

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Barberini Family, downfall of the, 324.
Behaviour of newly created Cardinals,
36.

Benedict XIV., character of, 338.
Beretta, the, 36, 43.

Berettina, the, 36, 42.

Bitter dissensions in the Sacred College
(1303), 90.

Bull of Sixtus V., finally regulating the
composition of the Sacred College,
18, 19.

Bulls of Gregory XV. forming the
basis of Conclave Law, 229.

Pius VI., promulgated in

1782 and 1798, 407.

Burial of Alexander VI., extraordinary,
173.

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333, 334.

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of Innocent VI., 98.
of Innocent VIII.,171.
of Innocent X., 332,

of John XXII., 95.
of Julius II., 180.

of Julius III., 213, 221.
of Leo X., 186.

of Leo XI., 262-292.
of Marcellus II., 224.
of Paul II., 156.
of Paul III., 204-211.
of Paul IV., 236-240.
of Pius II., 155.

- of Pius III., 178.

of Pius IV., 245–257.
of Urban VIII., 322.
of Sixtus IV., 167.
the modern, 395–428.
a modern, how the day

passes at, 414, 415.

regulations, futility of, 427.
at Viterbo in 1269, remark-
able, 60.
Conclaves in the eighteenth century,

389.

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Confusion in Christendom after the
election of the antipope Clement
VII., 123, 124.

Congregation of Rites, the, 37.

Conspiracy to assassinate Pius IV.,

243.

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Gregory XI., 105.
Gregory XV., 302.

Innocent VIII., 170.
Innocent X., 230.
Marcellus II., 204.
Martin V., 133.
Paul II., 156.

Paul III., 204.

Paul V.,

297.

Pius II., 154.

Pius III., 174.

Pius IV., 241.

Pius V., 259.

Sixtus IV., 164.

Olympia Maidalchini, Inno-

cent X.'s sister-in-law, from the
plague, 336.

De Brosses's Letters from Italy (1739),
378.

Decadence of the despotic power of the
Popes, 390, 391.

Decree of Nicholas II. on Papal elec-
tions, 13.

St. Hilarius (461), 8.

St. Symmachus (499), 8.

Democratic professions of the Catholic
Church, 5.

Deposition of Cardinal de Coligny, by
Pius IV., 50.

Difference between Cardinals and Car-

dinal deacons, 21.

Different classes of Popes, 78.

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