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Mistress of the Vatican
And so Their Eminences were forced to accept the new titles of
Their Highnesses, and at the end of the day, the relative stature of cardinals
and princes was the same as before but their titles had swollen
significantly.
A new cardinal would be assigned to one or more “congregations” or
church governing committees. Imbecile cardinals appointed for political
or family reasons were assigned to congregations where they couldn’t
do much damage—the Congregation of Fountains, for instance, which
met once a month to discuss the repair of water pipes, or that most
popular committee, the Index of Forbidden Books, where for their
homework the cardinals had to read the dirtiest books in Europe and
write reports expressing their shock and outrage.
The French historian André du Chesne (1584–1640) wrote that Urban
VIII respected Pamphili’s “erudition,” which he employed “in
many of the most difficult negotiations and in the trickiest congregations.”
11 Immediately after his creation, Cardinal Pamphili was assigned
to one of the most important congregations of all—that of the Council
of Trent—and in 1639 he would become its chairman. This group met
twice a week, on Thursdays and Saturdays, to interpret the rulings of
the 1563 council. Gianbattista’s appointment to this prestigious congregation
was a sign that he was widely acknowledged as an able churchman.
Cardinal Pamphili joined other important congregations, including
the Congregation of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Immunity, which
protected clerics from civil prosecution of crimes and defined the often
gray area between the legal domains of church and local governments.
He accepted a position on the Congregation of Church Rites, which created
saints after carefully examining the conduct of their lives and the
miracles attributed to them after death. He was named to the Congregation
of the Propagation of the Faith, which worked with missionaries
spreading the Catholic faith in far-flung regions of the globe such as
China and South America.
Cardinal Pamphili was also appointed to the Congregation of the
Holy Office of the Inquisition, which included at least twelve reverend
theologians who met with the pope every Thursday to look into accusa-
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