I think you're mistaken

  where he earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in mathematics in 1977

  His doctoral thesis was a legal study of the role of Augustinian local priors.[64]

The Vatican has really smart people in there, regardless of how you feel about the whole thing. I recommend anyone interested in the topic to give a read to: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu...

"ANTIQUA ET NOVA

Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence"

I was quite impressed at how much they "get it".

He did earn a BS degree in mathematics, but his dissertation was a religious one.

If I was in my early 20s, this would be mad respect.

Now that I'm in my 30s and I know PhDs.... They are basically nepo babies who were not good enough for industry.

Imagine the pope being a man of science a couple of hundred years back... How much better the world could be.

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