Interesting. I am sure self-interest plays a role in your fellow canon lawyers' disinterestedness. People, including canon lawyers, play all sorts of roles and pontificate in all sorts of ways. It just seems SO STRANGE that you can't find a critical mass of canon lawyers today, of peers, ready and willing to pick up on what you say, on what you are proposing -- that Pope Francis change canon law. There are well over 1,200 canon lawyers, both men and women, in the Canon Law Society of America, alone!!! And thousands elsewhere. And you can't convince at least 50 peers -- or even 30 -- to come up with a letter addressed to the pope about this issue? A few years ago, I remember a group of Catholic historians and theologians got together and penned a letter to Pope Benedict, asking him, pleading with him not to promote the canonization of Pope Pius XII. I believed it worked, too. I guess Benedict -- who has a very high IQ and respects academics -- became more lucid when confronted by peers.