Contributi di Anna Sammassimo

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Ordine pubblico e delibazione delle sentenze ecclesiastiche di nullità matrimoniale – 3. La sentenza n. 16379 del 2014: a) il concetto di convivenza coniugale triennale; b) le contraddizioni della Corte – 4. Un’impostazione giuridicamente logica e metodologicamente corretta - 5. Le “sottintese” esigenze di tutela: a) del coniuge c.d. economicamente debole; b) del coniuge ateo - 6. Conclusioni.

ABSTRACT: In the decision n. 16379/2014, the Italian Supreme Court states that three years of conjugal life is an obstacle to the exequatur procedure of the ecclesiastical sentences of nullity of marriage. This statement has already been supported by other decisions taken by the Court during 2015 and has de facto determined a new public policy, valid only for ecclesiastical sentences but not, for example, applicable to judgments made abroad. This new public policy is more restrictive than both the international public policy and the Italian public policy.

Sommario : 1. Introduzione - 2. La Francia e l’amministrazione dei culti - 3. Le bureau central des cultes: 3.1 - Le origini: dal Consolato al periodo imperiale; 3.2 - dalla Prima alla Seconda Restaurazione; 3.3 - dalla Monarchia di luglio alla Legge sulla separazione; 3.4 - le competenze - 4. Le bureau des cultes des départements du Bas-Rhin, du Haut-Rhin et de la Moselle: 4.1 - la specificità dell’Alsazia-Mosella; 4.2 - le origini del bureau; 4.3 - le competenze - 5. Il conseiller pour les affaires religieuses: 5.1 - le origini; 5.2 - la posizione fuori dagli schemi; 5.3 - le competenze – 6. Conclusioni.

The administration of cults in France

ABSTRACT: The expression “Administration of cults” born in France in the 19th century, when the 1801 Conordat made the cults into a public service and the cult's clerics a corp of nominated functionaries. Thus administration referred precisely to that branch of the civil service which under the flourishing Concordat concerned itself with the problems of claims from and requirements of the religious cults in French territories. Our paper means to trace France's administration of cults from its beginnings to its precise modern competences and functions. We wish to show how this administrative structure has been and still is an important apparatus for interpretation and even for 'liberal administration' of the Law as regards the separation of State and Church and the very concept of laïcité.