This explains the favour they enjoyed among canonists. He entrusted three canonists with its redaction. Many of the best canonists of today (e.g. D'Annibale and Gaspari) hold the contrary. Apostolic visitors are church officials whom canonists commonly class with papal legates. In my opinion and in the opinion of Orthodox canonists, this is phyletism. The result was confusion for canonists, perplexity for moralists, and often hesitation for the faithful. In his writings, he often cited earlier canonists or theologians as well as contemporary writers. Numerous ecumenists lauded the initiative, while some theologians and canonists were critical. Many Catholic theologians and canonists are severe on the Council of Pisa. Theologians and canonists in dealing with this subject usually have two historical texts as basis. The Roman jurist's definition of the former is frequently used by canonists to define contract. Indeed, medieval canonists treated privileges and dispensations as distinct, though related, aspects of the law. Canonists have formulated interpretive rules for the proper interpretation of canonical laws. Consequently, canonists traditionally called the clause the "mother of repose".