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Cormac Burke (Monsignor) Cormac Burke is an Irish-born canonist and theologian. A civil lawyer and a doctor in canon law, he is a priest of the Opus Dei Prelature. He is best known for his work (1986-2000) as a Judge of the Roman Rota, the High Court of the Catholic Church. Appointed just after the introduction of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, he became a prominent interpreter of certain new terms introduced into matrimonial law by the Code. The analyses he put forward of the "good of the spouses" as one of the ends of marriage (canon 1055), or of the mutual "self-giving/other-acceptance" set forth in canon 1057 as the object of matrimonial consent, seek biblical roots to the married personalism  proposed by  Pope John Paul II. He was the first rotal judge to regularly publish his sentences in English, with the result that his jurisprudential ideas have circulated widely and provoked varying reactions in the English-speaking canonical world. His views have been criticized by Augustine Mendonça and Anthony Dewhirst mainly in the canonical journal, The Jurist. In reply, and in further development of his ideas, Burke published a long article, "Progressive Jurisprudential Thinking" in the same journal Burke has also written extensively in the pastoral and theological fields. His latest book, "Marriage: Theological Perspectives" is to be published by the Catholic University of America  Press in 2014. Iuris-can (talk) 12:40, 6 December 2013 (UTC)