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Busch’s platforming of Francis’ opponents in the past spoke louder than any deferential words, said theologian and canon lawyer Dawn Eden Goldstein, who writes for the moderate Catholic news site Where Peter Is.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2023

“The pope’s authority is supreme, full and universal,” said canon lawyer Nicholas Cafardi.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2021

“Lay people used to be untouchable from a canon law viewpoint,” said Davide Cito, a canon lawyer and deputy rector at Rome’s Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2021

Nicholas P. Cafardi, a prominent canon lawyer in the United States, said the revisions to the code made it more “conforming to today’s expectations of professionals.”

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2021

The great medieval canon lawyer Lyndwood illustrates the difficulty of distinguishing, even as late as the middle of the 15th century, between concubinage and a clandestine, though legal, marriage.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various