You’ve researched many faiths enough to recognize notions about them that are unlikely to be true. If you roll a critical failure at a Religion check to Decipher Writing of a religious nature or to Recall Knowledge about the tenets of faiths, you get a failure instead. When attempting to Recall Knowledge about the tenets of your own faith, if you roll a failure, you get a success instead, and if you roll a success, you get a critical success instead.
If I have, say, Asmodeus Lore, Devil Lore, Hell Lore, or some similar lore of a religious nature, do I benefit from the last sentence of Student of the Canon when making said lore checks? Unlike the second sentence, the third and final sentence has no qualifiers such as using the Religion skill.
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Yeah, any recall knowledge about the tenets of your own faith should qualify, sill doesn't matter. It only specifies the action and subject.
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For the start of it, the crit fail to fail part, since it indicates any religion, yes, I think it would apply.
However, for the last sentence, I would read 'your own faith' as the faith of that PC. So, if that PC worshiped Desna, it would apply to Desna (and I might let it also apply to Shelyn and Sarenrea), but it would not apply to Ababar Rovagug, for example.
In the case of being a worshipper of Asmodeus, I would allow the last line "when attempting to recall knowledge about tenets of your own faith" to include using Lore Asmodeus or Lore Devils, but only insomuch as it applies to your faith.
So if you use lore Devils, the bit about a failure becoming success or success becoming crit success would only apply if the thing you're trying to find out about is relevant to your faith/worship of Asmodeus.
For example, I wouldn't allow you when trying to recall knowledge about a random generic devil to know it's resistances or weakness to say that it's relevant to your faith in Asmodeus. But if there was a specific devil that was important to the faith, you might know stuff about that one, which maybe could include references to weaknesses or resistances if it was a story of how a devil became favored by Asmodeus by using its cunning to trick an adventurer or fail out of grace for similar reasons.
What I'm trying to say is that it will be very subject depending on what counts as "tenets of faith".