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A few years ago back when Taylor Marshall and Tim Gordon were still friends and doing "TNT" together, they spent the last 20 minutes of an episode going off on this tangent that they called "Tim and Taylors Happy Place" or something and it was all these things they wished would happen under a hypothetical Pius XIII becoming the 267th Pope.
Anyway one of their items was to have the entire college of cardinals surrender their red hats, and then the Pope would return hats to only the good cardinals. Simultaneously purging the bad ones out of the college and shrinking the college back to a more appropriate size of anywhere between 24 like it was limited to after the Council of Basel and 76 like it was raised to 130 years later by Pius IV.
My question is, the college currently something like 229 cardinals. If a really orthodox cutthroat Pius XIII type became Pope after Francis and wanted to completely restore the Church and purge all the heretics out of the college, could he get rid of as many as 153-204 at once then laicize all of them?
Anyway one of their items was to have the entire college of cardinals surrender their red hats, and then the Pope would return hats to only the good cardinals. Simultaneously purging the bad ones out of the college and shrinking the college back to a more appropriate size of anywhere between 24 like it was limited to after the Council of Basel and 76 like it was raised to 130 years later by Pius IV.
My question is, the college currently something like 229 cardinals. If a really orthodox cutthroat Pius XIII type became Pope after Francis and wanted to completely restore the Church and purge all the heretics out of the college, could he get rid of as many as 153-204 at once then laicize all of them?