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Quick hack: priests are admitted as lawyers, and seminaries add a few classes to count as law schools. The Vatican opens up its own bar exams.
by trollbridge 2y ago
Quick hack: priests are admitted as lawyers, and seminaries add a few classes to count as law schools. The Vatican opens up its own bar exams.
- lvass 2y agoYou jest, but psychologists probably qualify and there are probably enough of them in the Church that can be moved to Washington.
- jll29 2y agoGreat idea - they already know Canon Law anyhow.
- trollbridge 2y agoI recently had a priest tell me he doesn’t know enough about canon law to settle a little debate we were having. It takes years of training. Imagine legal precedent that goes back 2,000 years, and is literally quite Byzantine.
- dragonwriter 2y ago> they already know Canon Law anyhow. Mostly, not particularly. “Canon lawyer” and “priest” are... not the same thing, and most priests’ jobs aren't particularly canon law centered.