The Juridical Legacy Of Pope Benedict XVI
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Rating | : | 4.50 (664 Votes) |
Asin | : | B073W7YKN2 |
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Number of Pages | : | 242 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2016-04-19 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Imagine a United States Attorney General who is not an attorney. Pope Benedict was certainly not the first Prefect to have no educational background in Canon Law before starting his work in the Congregation he served for twenty-four years. Not a degreed Canon Lawyer but with twenty-four years of on-the-job training, Pope Benedict brought a most unique perspective to the Canon Law. This is what makes Father Hayward’s work here so interesting. Or imagine any state’s Attorney General who never even walked in the door of a law school, let alone got his or her degree to practice law. Pope Benedict XVI is just such an anomaly. It is hard to conceive of a position in the Roman Curia more dependent on Ca