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 Law, Religion and the Family

During March Bishop Colton attended a Conference – Law, Religion and the Family – to mark the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Cardiff University Centre for Law and Religion of which the Bishop is a Research Associate.

The Conference was a unique gathering of acclaimed sociologists, lawyers and canon lawyers from around the world: Professors Gillian Douglas (Cardiff University), Grace Davie (University of Exeter); Richard Helmholz (University of Chicago), John Witte, Jr., (Emory University), Peter Edge (Oxford Brookes University), Malcolm Evans(Bristol University),  Ian Leigh (Durham), Javier Martínez-Torrón(Complutense University, Madrid), Marco Venture (University of Siena), together with Professors Mark Hill and Norman Doe from the Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University.

They addressed topics such as: legal approaches to the family; understanding religion in modern Europe; the concept of family in ecclesiology and family law; role of conscience in practice; the perils of celibacy; religious dissent, conscience and same-sex relationships; and family law in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.

 

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