Canonically Speaking

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 vari...

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. Drawin...

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 concerni...

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 S...

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 Pa...

Join 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...

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 coordinate...

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 (...

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 So...

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 En...

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 Catho...

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, Univers...

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,...

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...

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...

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 . Dr Mazza has degrees from the College of St Thomas (BA, Theology, summa cum laude ), the Notre Dame Apostolic Catechetical Institute (MA...