One Of The Best Canon Law Websites . . . Is In Kenya?

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!

GET THE STORY.

VISIT THE SITE.

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.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

5 thoughts on “One Of The Best Canon Law Websites . . . Is In Kenya?”

  1. 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… http://www.cormacburke.or.ke/Married_Love_and_Contraception

  3. Come to Kenya we got Lions!
    …
    Forget Norway! (More Like Snorway)
    Kenya, Kenya
    Where the Giraffes are, and Zebras!
    Kenya, Kenya, Kenya

  5. His Covenenanted Happiness was an awesome book on marriage. May God continue to bless Msgr. Burke.

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