Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin last night revealed that he spent some time in Rome as a Vatican judge -- quite an achievement for a priest who had no legal training.Dr Martin, who worked in the Vatican for almost three decades, confessed that his time as a judge of the Holy Roman Rota did not involve examining the details of the validity of marriages or of other tribunals examining the holiness of candidates to sainthood.
"My experience was a little more mundane," he said. "I was one of the three founding judges of the Vatican Labour Court. You might think that that was not the busiest of posts and probably not the most in modern in terms of contemporary labour standards.
"In fact, it was one of the significant signs of modernisation within the internal workings of the Vatican."
Dr Martin was speaking at the launch of a Penguin book on 'The Vatican' by Dublin priest Father Michael Collins, who describes the Vatican as an "enigmatic city within a city".
Dr Martin said: "The Vatican is a little world of its own, open to the world.
"All its services are provided by a workforce which is as dedicated as any I have ever encountered."
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