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He's trying to "put the court on a more professional and full-time footing", by appointing "a slew of other cardinals without canonical or other legal experience to serve as the court’s judges" even though "Vatican law requires that the court be led by the cardinal president of the Church’s highest canonical court, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, and that a majority of the court’s judges be made up of cardinals from the signatura"?

How do you get more professional judges by appointing people without legal experience? Did the courts previously have a bunch of empty offices?

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“ Francis also named a slew of other cardinals without canonical or other legal experience to serve as the court’s judges”…..gives me so much confidence….hope….What is the deal?

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