[trollbridge]

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]

You jest, but psychologists probably qualify and there are probably enough of them in the Church that can be moved to Washington.

[jll29]

Great idea - they already know Canon Law anyhow.

[trollbridge]

I 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]

> 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.