Canonically Speaking

About Canonically Speaking

A podcast featuring conversations with leading figures from the world of canon law. Host - Fr Paul Hayward Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com] Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum. To contact the show: canonicallyspeakingpodcast@gmail.com

Publisher

Fr Paul Hayward

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Apr 2025

Latest episode

10 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

17 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Sept 2026

   Canonically Speaking with....Fr Lou Vallone

   Fr Lou Vallone was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1947. In 1973 he was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Pittsburgh, and he recently retired after more than 50 years of ministry. He has an extensive background in liturgy, canon law and comparative religion, and spent 25 years as an adjunct professor at Duquesne University School of Law. Fr Lou has trained priests internationally in leadership and pastoral ministry, and through his work with the Catholic Leadership Institute and the Human Formation Coalition has coached hundreds of seminarians, deacons, priests, bishops and religious using a range of leadership and personality assessment tools. Since retiring from parish ministry, Fr Lou has devoted his work primarily to coaching and mentoring those in church leadership. Host - Fr Paul Hayward Producer - Charlie Brown Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com] Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum.For questions, comments and suggestions, feel free to contact the show: canonicallyspeakingpodcast@gmail.com

2. 

   13 Aug 2026

   Canonically Speaking with....Sr Ishbel MacPherson

   Join the Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Sister Ishbel MacPherson. Sr Ishbel was born in Fort William, Scotland, in 1933, and in 1950 joined the Institute of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. She dedicated many years to teaching in schools and in retreat-giving, and in the late 1970s began working in the Westminster Diocesan Tribunal. She obtained a doctorate in canon law shortly after the promulgation of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, and was appointed as one of the first non-cleric judges in Great Britain. In this episode she reflects on her pioneering work in the canon law world as one of very few fully qualified women canonists, and offers memories of some of the early Conferences of the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland, of which she has been awarded honorary life membership. Host - Fr Paul Hayward Producer - Charlie Brown Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com] Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum.For questions, comments and suggestions, feel free to contact the show: canonicallyspeakingpodcast@gmail.com

3. 

   9 Jul 2026

   Canonically Speaking with....Fr Pius Collins

   Join the Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Fr Pius Collins, O.Praem. Fr Collins is a canon of the Canonry of Our Lady of Sorrows, Peckham in London. He was born in Nottingham and studied theology in Oxford, London, and Rome, as well as canon law at KU Leuven (Belgium). He joined the Norbertine Order in 2011 and was ordained to the priesthood in 2016. He has served in various roles since his ordination, including those of Vice-Chancellor of the Diocese of Brentwood, Chaplain of Anglia Ruskin University (Chelmsford Campus), and Editor of the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Currently he serves on tribunals in the UK, Norway, and the United States; he is also pursuing a doctorate in canon law, on the topic of the “divorce mentality”. Host - Fr Paul Hayward Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com] Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum.For questions, comments and suggestions, feel free to contact the show: canonicallyspeakingpodcast@gmail.com

4. 

   11 Jun 2026

   Canonically Speaking with....Dr Eugene Gan

   Join Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Dr Eugene Gan. Dr Gan is Professor of Interactive Media, Communications, and Fine Art at Franciscan University of Steubenville. An expert in digital media, technology, and communications, he has spent many years helping students, educators, and families understand the opportunities and challenges presented by new technologies. Drawing on his experience as an academic, artist, media producer, and author of Infinite Bandwidth: Encountering Christ in the Media, in this episode he offers an accessible introduction to artificial intelligence, explaining what AI is, and what it is not. The conversation explores the relationship between technology and human intelligence, the benefits and risks of AI, and the principles that should guide its ethical use. Although primarily prompted by questions of interest to canon lawyers, Dr Gan’s insights will be helpful for anyone seeking a clearer understanding of artificial intelligence and its impact on the individual person and on society as a whole. Dr Gan also has a website “Bandwidth: Encountering Christ in the Media” at https://eugenegan.weebly.com/.

5. 

   7 May 2026

   Canonically Speaking with....Dr Pia Matthews

   Join Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Dr Pia Matthews. Dr Matthews is a senior lecturer at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, and a member of the formation team at Allen Hall Seminary Chelsea. Her PhD doctorate explored the notion of the person in patristic theology and philosophy, applying insights from Trinitarian theology and Christology to contemporary issues concerning the person in bioethics. Her research interests include the vocation, contribution, and spirituality of people with disabilities and of people living with dementia. In 2015 Pope Francis appointed Pia as an expert to the XIV Ordinary General Assembly Synod of Bishops, on the Family. Pia has co-authored a book – along with Deacon Joseph Cortis, founder of Caritas Leeds, and former healthcare lecturer – entitled “Journeying Together: Accompanying People Living With Dementia” (2023, ISBN 0852316267), which is intended as a practical, spiritual, and ethical guide to supporting those with dementia. One of the topics the book deals with is the question of the administration of the sacraments to those suffering from dementia, which is the central theme of this podcast.

6. 

   9 Apr 2026

   Canonically Speaking with....Canon Gerard Tartaglia

   Join Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Canon Gerard Tartaglia. Canon Gerard Tartaglia, originally from Glasgow’s East End, was ordained in 1985 and has served in several parishes in the Archdiocese of Glasgow, moving to his current parish of Kirkintilloch in 2022. In 2008 he became a member of the Chapter of Canons of the Archdiocese. Since 1989 he has held roles in the Scottish National Tribunal (now known as the Scottish Catholic Inter-Diocesan Tribunal) and from 2014 he has also helped in the Tribunal of the Diocese of Oslo. He has been involved in numerous canon law teaching roles, and from 2007 to the present he has been the Director of the Sentence Writing and Jurisprudential Course of the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland. In 2025 he was elected President of that Society

7. 

   12 Mar 2026

   Canonically Speaking with....Sr Eleanor Campion

   Join Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Sister Eleanor Campion. Sr. Campion OCSO, a native of Co. Waterford, entered St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn – Ireland’s only community of Cistercian nuns – in 1984, where she completed her novitiate and made her first profession of monastic vows in 1987. She was solemnly professed in Glencairn in 1990. In 2017 she obtained a JCL at St Paul University in Ottawa, and today she serves at the Cistercian Generalate in Rome as a member of the Abbot’s General Council.

8. 

   8 Jan 2026

   Canonically Speaking with....Dr Philip Milligan

   Join Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Dr Philip Milligan. Dr Milligan comes from Scotland, where after studying law he went on to study philosophy and languages in Belgium and France, and then canon law at the Santa Croce Pontifical University, where in 2017 he completed a doctorate on international ecclesial movements and new communities. From 1997 to 2005 he coordinated the international office at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family (Rome); and from 2012 to 2016 he was head of the legal office at the Pontifical Council for the Laity. Since 2016 he has held the same post at the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, the department of the Roman Curia that exercises the Holy See’s competency for the lay apostolate and associations of the faithful. He is a member committed in celibacy of the Emmanuel Community, an international association of the faithful which brings together lay people (married, single, consecrated in celibacy) and priests, who live in the heart of the world and aim to serve the mission of the Catholic Church through adoration, compassion and evangelisation. Host - Fr Paul Hayward Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com] Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum.For questions, comments and suggestions, feel free to contact the show: canonicallyspeakingpodcast@gmail.com

9. 

   11 Dec 2025

   Canonically Speaking with....Fr Brian Austin FSSP

   Join Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Fr Brian Austin FSSP. Fr Brian Austin is a member of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, exercising sacred orders in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, in the State of Georgia. He is a part-time professor at the Canon Law Faculty at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, and adjunct professor at the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta (in affiliation with the Center for the Study of Law and Religion). He holds degrees from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, Saint Paul University / University of Ottawa, and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium (JCD and PhD, Canon Law). As such, he is qualified to serve as an advocate or procurator before any diocesan or religious tribunal in the world, and before tribunals of the Roman Curia on a case-by-case basis. He is a specialist in penal and religious law, and his academic work focuses on questions of legality, due process, and the equal protection of rights. He has a long record of service to the Canon Law Society of America as well as to a number of other academic and professional societies, and he is a regular contributor to The Jurist, Roman Replies and Advisory Opinions, and Studia Canonica. The books referred to in this podcast are: Geraldina Boni – Manuel Ganarin – Alberto Tomer: La lesione dei principi di legalità penale e del giusto processo nell’ordinamento canonico. Quali ripercussioni giuridiche nel diritto italiano?, Seminario giuridico della Università di Bologna, Bologna University Press, 2025, 192pp., ISBN 9791254775905. Geraldina Boni – Manuel Ganarin – Alberto Tomer: Il «processo Becciu» Un’ analisi critica, Marietti 1820, 2025, 260pp., ISBN 9788821136818. Fr Austin’s single-volume English translation is due to be published by Wilson & Lafleur (Montreal) in 2026 under the title The Catholic Church and Vatican City State: Due Process on Trial. Fr Austin’s website can be consulted at https://austincanonical.com/. Host - Fr Paul Hayward Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com] Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum.For questions, comments and suggestions, feel free to contact the show: canonicallyspeakingpodcast@gmail.com

10. 

    14 Nov 2025

    Canonically Speaking with....Fr Justin Glyn SJ

    Join Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Fr Justin Glyn SJ, Fr Justin is a blind Jesuit priest who lectures in canon law at the Catholic Theological College, a college of the University of Divinity, Melbourne. Australia. He is a fellow of the Loyola Institute and an Honorary fellow of Australian Catholic University. He is General Counsel to the Australian Province of the Society of Jesus, an Australian lawyer, and a Consultor to the Dicastery of Laity, Family and Life. He also tutors law and Russian at Newman College, part of the University of Melbourne. He grew up in South Africa and practised law there and in New Zealand, obtaining a PhD in international law and refugee law at Auckland University in 2008 before joining the Jesuits. After ordination in 2016 he spent two years at St Paul University in Ottawa, Canada, where he obtained a licentiate in canon law. Aside from issues of law (especially involving refugees, people with disabilities and others who often find themselves marginalised), Fr Justin has a keen interest in languages and music and enjoys singing in choirs. He has written frequently for general and specialist publications in Australia on issues of international law and politics (especially in areas concerning civil liberties) and canon law, as well as occasional articles on theology and spirituality. He lives and works in Melbourne. He has recently been appointed Editor of the ‘The Canonist’, the journal of the Canon Law Society of Australia and New Zealand. Details of the #IamChurch campaign of the Dicastery of Laity, Family and Life, referred to in the podcast, are available at https://www.laityfamilylife.va/content/laityfamilylife/en/amoris-laetitia/iniziative-e-risorse/i-am-church.html Host - Fr Paul Hayward Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com] Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum.For questions, comments and suggestions, feel free to contact the show: canonicallyspeakingpodcast@gmail.com

11. 

    9 Oct 2025

    Canonically Speaking with....Margaret Koterba

    Join the Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Margaret Koterba. Margaret Koterba is a Polish canonist working in England. She obtained a Master in Theology and a Doctorate in Canon Law in Poland, and she is currently working as a Judge at the Tribunal of the Diocese of Salford. Since 2023 she has also been an Advocate at the newly-established National Tribunal Service for England and Wales, for the application of penal law in the Church. She combines her canonical roles with responsibilities as a wife and mother. In this podcast she talks about noogenic immaturity – a concept taken from the thought of Viktor Frankl and pioneered in the sphere of matrimonial consent by Monsignor Grzegorz Erlebach of the Roman Rota. The following articles are referred to in the podcast: - Grzegorz Erlebach, Algunas notas sobre el concepto de inmadurez noógena, in Ius Communionis, VIII (2020), pp. 265-291 - Margaret Koterba, Concept of noogenic immaturity according to the rotal jurisprudence, in Ius Matrimoniale, 35 (2024) nr 1, pp. 5-29 Host - Fr Paul Hayward Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com] Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum.For questions, comments and suggestions, feel free to contact the show: canonicallyspeakingpodcast@gmail.com

12. 

    11 Sept 2025

    Canonically Speaking with....Fr James Bradley

    Join the Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Father James Bradley. Fr Bradley is a Priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and Assistant Professor of Canon Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. He read music, theology, and canon law at the universities of Bristol, Oxford, and London, and holds a doctorate in canon law from The Catholic University of America. He is currently undertaking a doctorate in Liturgical Studies at the University of Vienna. Father Bradley’s current research interests include liturgical law, sacramental discipline, and the personal ordinariates established under the auspices of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus. Host - Fr Paul Hayward Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com] Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum.For questions, comments and suggestions, feel free to contact the show: canonicallyspeakingpodcast@gmail.com

13. 

    7 Aug 2025

    Canonically Speaking with....Dr Helen Costigane

    Join the Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Dr Helen Costigane. Dr Costigane was born in Scotland, and studied History and Politics at the University of Glasgow. She later moved to London where she worked in marketing for 2 years, and went on to train as a chartered accountant. She subsequently obtained numerous academic titles, several of them at Heythrop College, University of London. In 2011 she obtained a Doctorate in Canon Law at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. She is a member of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, and since 2017 has been a senior lecturer in the School of Theology at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, in SW London. She is a regular contributor to canonical and theological journals. As a canon lawyer, Dr Costigane provides advice to solicitors, dioceses, clergy, religious (individuals and congregations), and lay people on canonical issues such as temporal goods, rights and obligations in the Church, declarations of nullity of marriage, and penal processes. Host - Fr Paul Hayward Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com] Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum.For questions, comments and suggestions, feel free to contact the show: canonicallyspeakingpodcast@gmail.com

14. 

    10 Jul 2025

    Canonically Speaking with....William L. Daniel

    Join the Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with William L. Daniel. Dr Daniel was born in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Saint Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota in 2002. He earned a Licentiate in Canon Law in 2006 at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and a Doctorate in Canon Law at the same institution in 2015. From 2007-2015, he worked for the Diocese of Winona,holding the offices of Defender of the Bond, promoter of Justice, Judge, and Vice-Chancellor. He has been on the Editorial Committee of the Gratianus Series (Montréal) since 2010. In 2015, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the School of Canon Law at the Catholic University of American in Washington D.C. He is currently editor of The Jurist, the first journal in the United States devoted to the study and promotion of canon law. His publications include Ministerium Iustitiae – a two-volume collection of decisions of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura – and The Art of Good Governance. A Guide to the Administrative Procedure for Just Decision-Making in the Catholic Church, both published as part of the Gratianus Series. In addition Dr Daniel has produced numerous articles for canonical journals, especially in the area of procedural law. https://canonlaw.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/daniel-william/index.html Host - Fr Paul Hayward Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com] Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum.For questions, comments and suggestions, feel free to contact the show: canonicallyspeakingpodcast@gmail.com

15. 

    12 Jun 2025

    Canonically Speaking with....Fr Benjamin Earl, OP

    Join the Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Fr Benjamin Earl, OP. Fr Earl is an English Dominican friar and canon lawyer, who is currently the Procurator General of the Dominicans, based in the Friary of Santa Sabina in Rome. After reading Mathematics at Oxford and completing an MSc in Computation, he entered the Dominican order as a novice in 1997. After ordination as a priest he moved to Rome to study canon law at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) – where the present Holy Father Leo XIV had earlier obtained his own canon law licentiate and doctorate –and to work alongside the then Procurator General of the Order. In 2006, Fr Benjamin returned to Oxford where he served as bursar and as lecturer in canon law, later becoming bursar for the Province of England. In 2012, he was appointed as parish priest and superior of the Dominican house in Durham, and as Catholic chaplain at Durham University. In 2016, he moved to Rome once more as Procurator General of the Dominican Order, in which capacity he is responsible for representing the Order to the Holy See and for canonical issues in the Order’s General Curia. Host - Fr Paul Hayward Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com] Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum.For questions, comments and suggestions, feel free to contact the show: canonicallyspeakingpodcast@gmail.com

16. 

    8 May 2025

    Canonically Speaking with....Mgr Gordon Read

    Join the Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Mgr Gordon Read. Mgr Read was ordained for the diocese of Brentwood on 31 July 1976, and studied canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he obtained a JCL in 1979. He is currently parish priest of St Mary Immaculate & The Holy Archangels, Kelvedon, and has served as Judicial Vicar and Chancellor of the Diocese of Brentwood since July 1985. He has produced well over 80 articles and commentaries on canon law matters, most of them for the Newsletter of the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland, of which he was President between 2013 and 2016, and of which he is a current Trustee. He has been given Life Membership of the Society in recognition of his services. Host - Fr Paul Hayward Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com] Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum.For questions, comments and suggestions, feel free to contact the show: canonicallyspeakingpodcast@gmail.com

17. 

    9 Apr 2025

    Canonically Speaking with....Dr Michael Mazza

    In this inaugural episode of the series, join the Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Dr Michael J. Mazza, a civil and canon lawyer who advocates on behalf of clerics, religious, and lay people. He can be reached at canonicaladvocacy.com (https://canonicaladvocacy.com/). Dr Mazza has degrees from the College of St Thomas (BA, Theology, summa cum laude), the Notre Dame Apostolic Catechetical Institute (MA, Religious Studies), the Marquette University Law School (JD, summa cum laude), and the SantaCroce Pontifical University in Rome (JCL, magna cum laude, and JCD, summa cum laude). His doctoral thesis in canon law is entitled The Right of a Cleric to Bona Fama. The book discussed in this podcast is volume 1 of That Which Is Just in the Church: An Introduction to Canon Law by Carlos José Errázuriz, translated by Michael Joseph Mazza, 2023. https://www.amazon.co.uk/That-Which-Just-Church-Introduction/dp/1587318946 Other books mentioned in this episode include: Javier Hervada: Critical Introduction to Natural Law (2006 translation), Critical Introduction to Natural Right(2020 translation); Eduardo Baura, Thierry Sol: The Church, Persons, and Juridical Goods: An Introduction to Canon Law, 2023; Loic-Marie Le Bot, Petar Popović (eds.): The Concept of ‘Ius’ and the Nature of Law in Thomas Aquinas, 2025. Host - Fr Paul Hayward Producer - Charlie Brown Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com] Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum.

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