>In a message dated 99-10-15 18:54:20 EDT, you write:
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><< I know of no special "veto power" exercised by papal representatives. >>
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>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
"chastise, harangue, brow-beat, beg...??
Josef Gulka
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