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     Pope Honorius III,  Etsi membra
    (X 3.10.10) Köln, 
    Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek 131, fol. 94v | 
    "Although the members of Christ’s body, which 
    is the Church, do not have one function but diverse ones . . . He placed 
    each person in that body so that the members constitute one body. The eye 
    cannot say to the hand “I don’t need what you do” or the head to the feet, 
    “you aren’t necessary to me.” Still more important, the weaker members of 
    the body seem to be necessary. 
    We and our brothers the cardinals were in 
    complete agreement that those chapters ought to be invited to such councils 
    and their nuncios (nuntii) ought to be admitted to the business of the 
    council, especially about those matters that are known to concern the 
    chapters."   |