cardinals

A group of prominent bishops of the Roman Catholic Church who advise the pope and elect new popes.

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The pontiff blasts the selfishness, arrogance and detachment of the cardinals in Rome.

The central issue is de facto immunity traditionally given to bishops and cardinals.

All those cardinals and clerics get through an average of 73.7 liters each a year.

The cardinals had such a bad reputation that the very term “cardinal” became an insult in Renaissance Rome.

But at a consistory of cardinals in Vatican City on Monday, Francis made his case.

Some considerable time after Michaelmas, Bruce confirmed by letter the anticipations of the Cardinals.

The Cardinals started for the north, 'as the manner of the Romans is,' with great pomp and circumstance.

The tombs in the choir are all occupied by famous archbishops and cardinals.

Dissections were done at Rome and the cardinals attended them.

The Cardinals Expences are as much circumscribd as his Dignity will admit of.

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