Jurist or lawyer specialised in church law and guidelines.
1
The last time I heard Mary Raftery on the radio, she was taking grief m a canon lawyer.
2
A leading canon lawyer, Father Tom Doyle, has expressed disquiet with the way cases have been handled within the archdiocese.
3
However, this was rejected as "misleading, totally false and wrong" by Irish canon lawyer Dr Michael Mullaney last night.
4
An American canon lawyer says he suspects there is a great deal more to the story of what is happening in Maynooth seminary.
5
The one-time canon lawyer first blew the whistle on the global abuse scandal in 1984 and his work featured in the Academy Award-winning film Spotlight.
6
A canon lawyer and former US air force chaplain, in 1985 he helped draft a report on clerical child sex abuse for America's Catholic bishops.
7
You've tried the canon lawyers; now try the theologians.
8
I'm sure there were several canon lawyers around at the time, perhaps even one or two among the bishopric.