In a message dated 99-10-15 18:54:20 EDT, you write:
<< I know of no special "veto power" exercised by papal representatives. >>
Not as in a presidential or tribunal veto which completely nullifies the
proceedings, but more of a statement of non-acceptance, as in the clause of
the Chalcedon Council of 451, which Bill alluded to earlier. The Roman
bishops say was important enough, however, that Justinian thought it
important to bring the fellow (name escapes me at the moment, begins with a
V) to Constantinople for the LBJ treatment (wine, dine, cajole, coax,
chastise, harangue, brow-beat, beg, promise, etc.). So in a sense a special
privilege or worth did rest in Rome.
mark
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