Cardinal Pacci Named Camerlengo Amid Papal Succession
The Home Journal, of Nov. 10, 1877, a Catholic paper published in Detroit, Mich., says:— “The office of Camerlengo, when bestowed upon one of the Cardinals, empowers him to exercise the whole authority of the Pope in the interregnum between the death of the actual Pope and the election of a successor. This office has just been conferred upon the Italian Cardinal Giovacchini Pacci, who was born in 1810.” From the foregoing it will be seen that the Jesuits are taking every precaution to have the death of the present pope occasion as little disturbance as possible in the Holy College at Rome. How evident that the papists look upon the future of their anti-scriptural system with bodings of evil.