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May 31, 2006
One Of The Best Canon Law Websites . . . Is In Kenya?
(Jimmy Akin)
Strange, but true!
Canonist Ed Peters notes the website of Msgr. Cormac Burke who is one of the world's most influential canon lawyers and who has retired from the Roman Rota to work in Kenya.
So, indeed, one of the world's most important canon law web sites is based in Kenya, and has a .ke extension to prove it.
GO KENYA!
Msgr. Burke has made available on his site a wealth of materials, including canonical ones, and those including sentences he wrote at the Rota (so others can read them and learn how such matters are handled at the Rota).
SWEET!
NOTE: I've been reading some of Msgr. Burke's rotal sentences and I must say that I'm impressed. They are very sharp, precise, and thoughtful. I have to say that I feel for him when he's ruling that the nullity of a marriage has not been proven, despite the petitioner's desires, but I see why the evidence he's ruling on genuinely does not prove the nullity of the marriage in terms of the law.
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Although I cannot find it on his website, Msgr. Burke has also written one of the best articles I've ever read on contraception, "Married Love and Contraception." I first read it when I was trying to understand the Church's teaching on this, even though I already accepted it as a matter of faith. His explanations of total self-giving in marriage, and speaking that truth with the body, made so much sense to me... It's worth a read.
I'm to lazy to look up the html coding, so here's the link without the hypertext... www.cormacburke.or.ke/Married_Love_and_Contraception
Posted by: Margaret | May 31, 2006 12:28:25 PM
Where can you see canon lawyers? Only in Kenya!
Forget Norway!
Posted by: joye | May 31, 2006 6:56:40 PM
Come to Kenya we got Lions!
...
Forget Norway! (More Like Snorway)
Kenya, Kenya
Where the Giraffes are, and Zebras!
Kenya, Kenya, Kenya
Posted by: IA_ | May 31, 2006 9:27:52 PM
I was beat to it. Sorry for the doublepost.
Posted by: IA_ | May 31, 2006 9:28:44 PM
His Covenenanted Happiness was an awesome book on marriage. May God continue to bless Msgr. Burke.
Posted by: Buffalo Bill | Jun 4, 2006 4:17:12 PM
