– By Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer

Amidst all the technology, science and arts offerings online, here’s one that’s refreshingly new. The course on Canon Law being broadcast online by the Catholic University’s Center for Planning and Information Technology is drawing significant from places as widespread as California, Texas, Spain, Italy and other parts of Europe. The “Canon Law 701: History of Canon Law”, which is taught by Professor Ken Pennington, has the audio and video forms of its lectures and classes streamed live online. For those who miss these for some reason or other, the archives can be downloaded when time permits. The classes on the history of Church law are on from August to December. The Catholic University of America reports:

Although early Canon law is the very foundation of most of Western jurisprudence, it is a relatively rare scholastic specialty. With the avid anticipation that many impatient TV viewers feel about a new episode of the “Sopranos,” early Church scholars can log on and watch lectures on Legal Positivism and Justice, The First Papal Decretal and The Codification of Justinian.