Without his sanction they did not propose them in a general session.

In this fashion, by means of his standing majority, the exclusive right of his Legates to propose resolutions, and the previous reference of these resolutions to himself, Pius was enabled to direct the affairs of the Council.

It soon became manifest that while the fathers were talking at Trent their final decisions were arranged in Rome.

This not unnaturally caused much discontent.

It began to be murmured that the Holy Ghost was sent from Rome to Trent in carpet-bags.
A man of more imperious nature than Pius might, by straining his prerogatives, have produced an irreconcilable rupture.