canonist

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The changes to the Code of Canon Law took 11 years to develop and included input from canonist and criminal law experts.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2021

Astigueta, a Jesuit canonist at the Gregorian, has said such institutional secrecy surrounding abuse case harms the development and practice of the church’s own law.

From Washington Times • Dec. 20, 2019

One American canonist in Rome notes that the law does not work anyway, since it frequently proves no deterrent to civil divorce.

From Time Magazine Archive

The book appears to owe a considerable debt to a scholarly but not widely circulated 1967 work, Divorce and Remarriage, by a U.S. canonist, Monsignor Victor J. Pospishil.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is need of a prelate—who, as I have written your Majesty, should be not a theologian, but a canonist, in order to serve suitably God and your Majesty.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander