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conclave and proceed at once to the election after Concobinage (cf. C. E., IV-207).— Persons who the eighteenth day at the latest. The prescription live in public concubinage are to be excluded from for the three more solemn final funeral Masses is all legal ecclesiastical acts until they give proof of to be observed: but the cardinals at their first real repentance; if the culprit has received minor meeting are to fix the days on which the six other orders he should be punished by dismissal from Masses are to be celebrated. T^ cardinals, more- the clerical state if necessary; if he has received over, though they may have two assistants, can major orders, and disregards the ordinary's wam- bring only one into the conclave, and he must ing he is to be forced by suspension and priva- be a layman — but this is not to modifv the pro- tion to end the association and repair the scandal, visions already made for cardinals who are ill. Clerics are presumed to be concubinaries, if they Furthermore, the cardinals may celebrate Mass dur- are contumacious when they have been forbidden ing the conclave but if for any reasoh anyone does by the local ordinary on accoimt of the moral not do so he is to hear Mass and receive Holy danger or scandal to retain in their service, or Communion in a designated chapel. Finally the associate with, anpr woman. The manner of dealing Motu proprio in which these changes are made is with such cases is as follows: If the cleric after to be read at the first general meeting of the being duly warned neither obeys nor replies, when cardinals after the death of the pope. he could do so, he is to be suspended a divinU by

The clerics present at the conclave of 1922 in his ordinary, and is to be deprived immediately attendance on the cardinals from dioceses outside of his parish, should he have one; if he holds only a of Italy were granted the privilege of a private benefice without cure of souls and does not amend oratory, providra it was first Visited and approved within two months after his suspension he is to by the ordinarv. It was formerly customary to be- lose half of his revenue, three months later he loses stow life pensions on the clerics attendant on the the remainder, and three months later is to be de- cardinals &om Italian sees, but owing to the poy- prived of the benefice. If, however, the accused has erty of the Holy See to-day, this practice was dis- excused himself to the ordinary, his answer is to continued; however, each of those who had been be sent to two examiners; if the ordinary after con- present received a donation of 900 lire. suiting them judges the alleged excuse insufiicient,

he must at once .notify the cleric and command

Ooneordat (ef. C. E., IV-196)v— The canons of him formallv to obey within a short specified time, the Code in no wa^ abrogate or modify the con- If the disooedient culprit is a removable parish cordats already existing between various nations priest he may be coerced at once as stated above; and the Apostolic See. On 24 June, 1914, Servia, where, however, the culprit hold a permanent desiring to be free from the religious protectorate benefice and gives new reasons instead of obeying, of Austria, arranged a concordat with the Holy the ordinary should submit them to examination See, which was after approved by the Skuptchina as before; if the excuses are then deemed insuffi- and ratification by King Peter was published on cient the ordinary is to command obedience within 18 September, 1014, and ratified by Benedict XV a fitting time, and if the culprit remains recalcitrant, on 20 March, 1915. Codex jur. can., 3; for text he is to be dealt with as aoove. of Servian Concordat cf. Rome, XV, and Annuaxre Codex jur. can., 2,176-81.

pontifical (1916), 09. Ooncanmfl (cf. C. E., IV-208).— In places where

, -^ -. appointments to parishes are made by concursus,

Concordia, Didcsss op ((jqN0(»DiKN8i8; cf. C. E., this practice is to be continued until the Holy See IV-206d), in the province of Venice, Northern decrees otherwise.

Italy, sufifragan of Venice. This* see was filled by nAnf«wm-jMi T?rv^«T*«.rTr,Aw r^f r i? tv oi^\ Rt. Rev. F^ncesco IsoU from 22 June, 1896, until Oonfwoices, Ecclesiaotcal (cf. OE, IV-213) .-- his transfer to the titular see of Adrianople. 14 EcclesiasUcal conferences have now been made obh- February. 1919. He was succeeded by the present «atory and are to be held m the epwcopal city and hicumbent, Rt. Rev. Luigi Paulini, bom m For- each vicariate forane frequently. They are to be miaso, 1862, made a pre&te of the Holy See 11 attended by all secular oriests, regulars, even ex- September, 1911, appointed 10 March, 1919. The ^mpt, having care of souls, and other religious who episcopal ^idence is at Portogruaro; the chancel- ^old diocesan faculties for -hearing confesmons if lore of the cathedral are imo facto, prothonotaries W have no conferences m their own housw. apostolic supernumerary. The 1920 statistics credit Jhose who are obliged to attend but are unable this diocese with 302,481 Catholics; 131 parishes, to do so must send wntten solutions of the ques- 255 secular and 2 regular clergy, 112 Sisters, 142 tions under discussion unless they have b^n ex- seminarians, and 287 chui^hes or chapela VreaAy exempted by the local ordmaiy. SimiUr

conferences are to be held in clencal religious Ooncordia, Diocbsb op (Concordienbib; cf. C. E., ^o^a^, and are to> attended by all the prof Med IV-206d), comprises an area of 26,685 sq. miles who are engaged m or have completed their theo- in the Stkte of Kansas, and a Catholic population logical studi^, excepting those who are exempted of 35,179. Since the death of the last bishop, Rt. by the constitutions. Rev. John Francis Cunningham, D.D., who was ^^o^J^- ««»•' i«. «"•

consecrated 21 September, 1898, and died 23 June, Ocmflrmation (cf. C. E., iy-215).— Even without 1919 the see has been vacant and the progress special delegation Confirmation may be adminis- of the diocese retarded on this account. The tered by cardinals and also by abbots or prelates present records (1921) show the following static- nuUiua, vicare and prefects Apostolic, who can act tics: churches with resident priests, 59; missions, validly, however, only within their own territory 36; stations, 10; secular priests, 60, regulara, 34; and while holding office. Priests of the Latin Rite, ecclesiastical students, 5; 1 college for Doys with who administer the sacrament by special indult, can 95 students: 1 academy with 110 students; 33 validly confirm only persons of the Latin Rite, un- parochial schools with 4,713 students; 3 hospitals, less their indult expressly asserts otherwise. Eastern and 1 orphan asylum. The various religious ordera priests enjoying the faculty or privilege of con- represented in the diocese are the Capuchin Fath- firming children of their Rite at baptism are for- ere: the Oblate Fathera; the Sistere of St. Joseph, bidden to confirm children of the Latin Rite; if ana Sisters of St. Agnes. they did confirm their act would be valid, though