The Importance of Canon Law

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Mike Gormley and Dave VanVickle are joined by cannon lawyer, Fr. Brian Austin. Together they discuss the origins of canon law, the difference between church and secular legal law, papal primacy, and discuss the role of the Catholic Church through the chaos of history.

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If you believe that God wants you to be happy then how does that change what law is? Well it goes from being the arbitrary, tyrannical, imposition of an authority over me, right? And the scariest thing is not the tyrant, the scariest thing is its arbitrariness.

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0:00.0	If you believe that God wants you to be happy, then how does that change what law is?
0:05.3	Well, it goes from being the arbitrary, tyrannical imposition of an authority over me, right?
0:12.6	And the scariest thing is not the tyrant.
0:14.5	The scariest thing is it's arbitrariness. Oh, welcome, ladies and gentlemen to every knees shall bow, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization and discipleship.
0:36.6	My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am joined today, as always, by Dave the sacred
0:42.7	canon van Vickle.
0:43.9	How you doing, Dave?
0:45.2	Dude, that would be, oh, what if that became my for real nickname?
0:48.4	That would be awesome.
0:49.5	That's a wrestler name right there.
0:50.5	And I just, yeah, I just got a huge cannon on my back, though, like that,
0:54.3	like the opposite of what it really means. It would be so awesome. Dave, who is our special guest
0:59.9	today? Yeah, I'm excited. Today, a good friend of mine and an expert on church canon law,
1:06.3	Father Brian Austin, from the Fraternal Society of St. Peter, but then there's a million other things
1:11.5	behind your name that I feel like you should introduce because I can't keep up with all of them.
1:15.8	You're very accomplished.
1:17.6	Thanks.
1:18.2	No, first, hello and good morning.
1:20.3	It's my pleasure to be here with both of you.
1:23.2	Yes, so I'm a parish priest.
1:24.7	I was ordained in 2009, but I wear a number of hats, both
1:29.5	actual and metaphorical, but so I also, I'm an associate or adjunct professor of canon law
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