Canonically Speaking

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.

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

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.

Canonically Speaking with....Dr Helen Costigane

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 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

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