Jurist or lawyer specialised in church law and guidelines.
1The last time I heard Mary Raftery on the radio, she was taking grief m a canon lawyer.
2A leading canon lawyer, Father Tom Doyle, has expressed disquiet with the way cases have been handled within the archdiocese.
3However, this was rejected as "misleading, totally false and wrong" by Irish canon lawyer Dr Michael Mullaney last night.
4An American canon lawyer says he suspects there is a great deal more to the story of what is happening in Maynooth seminary.
5The 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.
6A 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.
7You've tried the canon lawyers; now try the theologians.
8I'm sure there were several canon lawyers around at the time, perhaps even one or two among the bishopric.
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