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 priest he moved to Rome to study canon law at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) – where the present Holy Father Leo XIV had earlier obtained his own canon law licentiate and doctorate –and to work alongside the then Procurator General of the Order. 

In 2006, Fr Benjamin returned to Oxford where he served as bursar and as lecturer in canon law, later becoming bursar for the Province of England. 

In 2012, he was appointed as parish priest and superior of the Dominican house in Durham, and as Catholic chaplain at Durham University. 

In 2016, he moved to Rome once more as Procurator General of the Dominican Order, in which capacity he is responsible for representing the Order to the Holy See and for canonical issues in the Order’s General Curia.

Host - Fr Paul Hayward

Producer - Charlie Brown

Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com]

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