If conditions change, so that the pope judges it safe to make the appointment public, he may do so at any time.

If a pope dies before revealing the identity of an in pectore cardinal, the cardinalate expires.

( If the Dean is elected pope, the Vice Dean performs this task.

* If the pope finds that the king who has been elected by the princes is unworthy of the imperial dignity, the princes must elect a new king or, if they refuse, the pope will confer the imperial dignity upon another king ; for the Church stands in need of a patron and defender.

If after a due interval they have not reached an agreement they must ask the pope to arbitrate, failing which, he must of his own accord and by virtue of his office decide in favour of one of the claimants.

If any candidate should declare himself pope without receiving the required majority, he and his supporters were to be excommunicated.

If it be the fact, as is asserted by a contemporary, that Benedict validly acquiesced in his deposition, and if, as seems certain, no further protest was made against Leo's position, he may well be regarded as a true pope from July 964, to his death in 965, about the month of March.

If the French emperor had let Garibaldi have his way the latter would likely have ended the temporal sovereignty of the pope and made Rome the capital of Italy.

If the story related by the Liber pontificalis is essentially correct, the pope probably left Rome on 22 November 545.

If a metropolitan ( or, presumably, a pope ) leaves his office before he dies, his pallium is rolled up and placed with him in his coffin.

If a newly elected pope is not a bishop, he is consecrated at once.

If the new pope is already a bishop, as is normally the case, his election is announced immediately to the people gathered in Saint Peter's Square and he gives them his blessing.

If allowed to proceed unimpeded, the pope and his minions, along with Tammany's bosses and supporters, would convert the nation into their personal fiefdom.

If the source of their authority was uncertain, so was their competence to convoke the universal Church and to elect a pope.

If Elizabeth had made this proposal in 1378, after Catherine's death, the fact that the French king and the Hungarian king did not recognize the same pope would have represented a problem.

# If in this meeting the cardinals favoured the appointment of the aforesaid commission, a decree to that effect was promulgated, and the pope signed it, but, according to custom, with his baptismal name, not with that of his pontificate.

If the decisions were favourable, the general meeting of the congregation was followed by a decree, confirmed by the pope, in which it was announced that there was proof of miracles.

If a majority of the consultors was favourable, a decree to this effect was issued by the pope, and at the time appointed by him the solemn beatification of the servant of God took place in the Vatican Basilica, on which occasion a pontifical Brief was issued permitting the public cultus and veneration of the beatified person now known as Blessed ( Beatus ).

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??

`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If we want respect from ourselves or others, we will have to earn it.

If I am to speak the whole truth about my knowledge of love, I will have to stop trying to emulate the transcendant nightingale.

If we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.

`` If you become a Baptist, I will not '', Ann informed her husband, but sweeping her threat aside Adoniram continued to search for an answer to the personal dilemma in which he found himself.

If they are right, they will prevail of and by themselves.

If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.

Without preliminaries, Esther asked him, `` If you are a world citizen, will you take Garry Davis' place in his tent while he goes to the hospital ''??

If otherwise, you will give me a pleasure.

If the indenture is accepted, the authority will proceed to validate a bond issue repayable from revenue.

If the Dominican Republic achieves free, democratic government, it will be due in large part to the U.S. show of force that enabled President Balaguer to prevent a threatened restoration of Trujillo dictatorship.

If any one of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions the nature of the organization will have changed.

If they give him advice when he asks it, or if they perform specified duties under his direction, the nature of the U. N. will not of necessity change.

If he can bounce back with one of those 25 home runs years, the club will have to be better off offensively.

If this new Bible does not increase in significance by repeated readings throughout the years, it will not survive the ages as has the King James Version.

If the record buyer's tastes are somewhat eclectic or even the slightest bit esoteric, he will find them satisfied on educational records.

If the Republicans and Southern Democrats join to defeat medical care for the old under the Social Security program, they will thereby erect still another barrier to GOP hopes in the cities.

If it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, it can provide a service to the state.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

If a customer wishes a special cut, it will not be available.

If in a town of 2,000 private homes, half of them have shelters, the need for the community shelters will be reduced to that extent.

If Nikita buys a small plot in some modest rural cemetery, everyone will understand.