Word: placet
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...enter their third and final month of deliberations in the horseshoe-shaped aula at the order's headquarters palazzo in Rome. The delegates, many of them wearing turtleneck sweaters or loud ties instead of clerical black, cast their votes by punching buttons on their desks that registered placet (it pleases) or non placet on an electronic Scoreboard behind the dais...
...heavens broke open again as the roll call began. A window shattered almost directly over the pontifical throne. As the votes came in-an unbroken succession of placets (it pleases)-it became clear that the opposition, once strong, had melted before the papal presence. Rather than embarrass the Pope, many of the American bishops, who principally feared Protestant reaction in the U.S. to the doctrine of papal infallibility, had gone quietly home. But the Most Rev. Edward Fitzgerald, 36, episcopus petriculanus, bishop of Little Rock, Ark., had changed his mind and decided to stay. When his name was called...
...Right after the vote was announced, 533-2, Fitzgerald and a Neapolitan bishop who also voted non placet went forward to Pope Pius IX and declared "Now I believe." Absent dissenters sent in their submissions...
...general sessions, members will be allowed to vote only placet or non placet (yes or no). The votes-in a rare Vatican concession to the age of automation-will be counted by electronic calculating machines. A two-thirds majority will carry a motion...
...Vatican's red damask Consistorial Hall, pink-cheeked Clemente Cardinal Micara rose and begged the Pope's permission to close her case. One by one the assembled cardinals rose and bowed to the papal throne; then, as the Pope asked each one for his opinion, each murmured "placet" (it pleases). The canonization, say church authorities, will almost certainly take place within the next year...