Since this writer alluded in his last post to the College of Cardinals and the future of the Papacy, the thought occured to him future outcomes of conclaves might produce different results, were membership in the College determined by the process of competitive examination, as with the peerage in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe.
How an examination may be accomplished and conducted is way beyond your Tatler’s capabilities, but he recently came across a splendid possibility for the format of at least some of the questions asked in an examination for membership in the Sacred College. It is seen below.
The Taos Tatler. 