Contenuti per la categoria: Diritto canonico

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Misure di trasparenza adottate nell’ambito della Santa Sede- 3. Legislazione spagnola in materia di trasparenza- 4. Il nuovo Portale di Trasparenza della CEE- 5. L’Accordo tra la CEE e TIE: profilo soggettivo- 6. L’Accordo tra la CEE e TIE: profilo sostanziale - 7. Riflessioni conclusive - 8. Appendice: Testo integro dell’Accordo tra la CEE e TIE.

The commitment of the Spanish Bishops' Conference in favor of Transparency: the Transparency Portal and the Agreement with Transparency International España

ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes two recent measures adopted by the Spanish Bishops' Conference to increase its level of transparency. The first of these measures is the creation of a new Transparency Portal in which a great deal of information is collected on institutional, legal and economic aspects related both to the Spanish Bishops' Conference itself and to other entities of the Catholic Church in Spain. As the present article shows, it is possible to establish a parallelism between the information provided on that website and some of the active publicity obligations established by Spanish Transparency Act. The second of the measures analyzed is the Agreement signed by the Spanish Bishops' Conference and Transparency International España. Through this Agreement, the Spanish Episcopal Conference is committed to adopt measures to increase its levels of Transparency.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Dall’ “aggiornamento” alla “società aperta” - 3. Prospettive di una riflessione - 4. Il superamento della “dicotomia bioetica” nell’era di Papa Francesco - 5. Conclusione.

From the "submerged schism" to the era of Pope Francis

ABSTRACT: “The submerged schism” by Pietro Prini appears as a new research perspective that seems to overwhelm the distinction between “Catholic bioethics and lay bioethics” and, so, the existence of “two ethical models or paradigms”. From the “upgrading”, through the “open society”, it is achieved to the “overcoming” of the “closed society” and to “the era of Pope Francis” on which the reflection does not seem to be focused yet.

SOMMARIO: Parte prima: Primato del “pietas erga Deum” - Parte seconda: Concorso della “ratio ratiocinans”.

SOMMARIO: 1. Considerazioni introduttive- 2. La formulazione dogmatica del diritto all’equità - 3. La qualificazione del diritto all’equità - 4. La necessaria distinzione fra l’equità quale virtù umana, che opera nei rapporti fra privati, e l’equità quale dovere giuridico ex officio - 5. Il diritto all’equità quale diritto all’esercizio di una virtù istituzionalizzata - 6. Alle radici del diritto all’equità.

ABSTRACT: The article verifies, through dogmatic and theoretical data, the possibility of configuring canonical equity as a right.

SOMMARIO: 1. Considerazioni introduttive - 2. Inadeguatezza del binomio intelletto-volontà quale strumento valutativo del consenso matrimoniale - 3. Le sinergie psichiche alla base della discretio iudicii: l’approccio intellettivo - 4. La conoscenza critico-estimativa - 5. La libera formazione del processo volitivo - 6. Il criterio di proporzionalità della discretio iudicii.

Discretio iudicii, mental disease, iura et officia matrimonialia essentialia, nullity of marriage, psychic ability to marry.

ABSTRACT: The present essay, starting from the legal regulation of the discretio iudicii in the canon law system, tries to specify its conceptual essence and its peculiar characteristics relatively to the matrimonial institution. Particular attention has been paid to the attempt to clarify the connection between the defectus discretionis iudicii and the iura et officia matrimonialia essentialia and also the incidence of the different kinds of mental diseases on the expression of a valid matrimonial consent.

Sommario: 1. Introduzione - Parte prima (Profili di diritto canonico) • 2. Successioni e donazioni nel diritto della Chiesa. Note storiche - 3. Il canone 1299 del Codex Iuris Canonici del 1983. Gli atti mortis causa - 4. Il testamento dei religiosi e dei presbiteri - 5. Le formalità del diritto civile - 6. Il canone 1299 del Codex Iuris Canonici del 1983. Gli atti inter vivos - 7. Il rinvio al diritto civile previsto dal canone 1290 in materia contrattuale - Parte seconda (Profili di diritto vaticano) • 8. Successioni e donazioni nelle fonti del diritto vaticano - 9. Aspetti di diritto processuale vaticano in materia successoria - 10. Giurisprudenza vaticana in materia successoria.

Vatican inheritance and gifts law. Substantive and procedural aspects

ABSTRACT: This paper aims to clarify Vatican (substantive and procedural) inheritance and gifts law. A special attention is given to canon law, first source of the Vatican legal system. The article specially considers the leading cases of Vatican Courts (first, second and third instance) regarding to succession.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. La preparazione del biennio sinodale - 3. Il dibattito sulle proposte di snellimento dei processi matrimoniali nell’Assemblea Straordinaria del 2014 - 4. La preparazione dell’Assemblea Ordinaria e l’accoglienza della riforma in Sinodo - 5. Conclusioni.

Reflections on the Synodal origin of the processus brevior coram Episcopo.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the main aspect of the motu proprio Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus signed by Pope Francis - the role of judge accorded to the Bishop especially in the new briefer process - cannot be linked to the suggestions of the two assemblies of the Synod of Bishops on the Family summoned in 2014 and 2015, as the Pontiff himself and many Authors have instead affirmed. Attention is mainly given to the documents of the first gathering: the preliminary questionary, the Instrumentum laboris, the mid-Synod relations and the Relatio finalis offered as a draft for the 2015 Assembly. The analysis of these documents prove that many of those involved in the synodal process showed great concern on the perspective of a Bishop acting himself as a judge, openly suggesting to avoid this solution. In the conclusion, a reflection is made on how the process that conducted to this reform often lacked those principles of synodality and collegiality frequently described as Francis’ key principles in the Church's guidance.

SOMMARIO: 1. Cento anni di codificazione - 2. Il bisogno di flessibilità - 3. Varietà degli strumenti di flessibilizzazione - 4. I motivi della flessibilità - 5. Necessità - 6. Utilità - 7. Motivi teologici - 8. Flessibilità e codificazione - 9. La codificazione porta all’irrigidimento? - 10. La codificazione agevola i cambiamenti? - 11. Varie funzioni della flessibilizzazione - 12. Piano interpretativo, applicativo o legislativo?

Does the Codification of Law affect its Flexibility? The Catholic Canon Law compared to other Religious Laws

ABSTRACT: Epieikeia in Greek philosophy and aequitas in Roman law are ethical principles, which are open to a religious as well as a secular justification. They are part of the instruments of flexibility that make any legal tradition smooth and adaptable. Jewish and Islamic law as well as Catholic and Orthodox Canon Law apply different kinds of such instruments. A comparison of these legal systems leads to multiple observations: Some scholars, such as Max Weber, considered religious laws to be immutable. In fact, however, they ascribe great significance to flexibility, since they give priority to the spiritual development of individuals. Since many religions are unfamiliar with changes of law by means of legislation, they depend on methods of flexibility to adapt to new social situations. Even those religions, which do have legislation and even codifications, put particular emphasis on instruments of flexibility in order to apply general and abstract norms to individual cases in an appropriate manner.

SOMMARIO: 1. L’educazione religiosa dei figli nell’ordinamento civile: diritto dei genitori e libertà dei minori - 2. L'educazione religiosa della prole nell’ordinamento canonico: un diritto-dovere dei genitori - 3. Educare religiosamente nei matrimoni misti nel codice di diritto canonico - 4. Diritto canonico particolare e orientamenti pastorali - 5. Riflessioni conclusive.

SOMMARIO. 1. Premessa - 2. L’episcopalis audientia. Riconoscimento, evoluzione e problematiche - 3. L’età medievale e la nascita degli officiali. I tribunali “guardiani del vincolo” - 4. Dal Concilio di Trento alla prima codificazione - 5. Dal Codex del 1983 all’Istruzione Dignitas connubii - 6. Conclusioni.

Ipse Episcopus iudex: return to the canonical tradition?

ABSTRACT: The new procedural norms for marriage nullity approved by Pope Francis invested the diocesan Bishop with a peculiar role, adding to his previous duties in the judicial sphere that to judge personally in the new processus brevior. Bishops have always been considered the “natural judges” in their dioceses, but this task was previously exercised by appointing the tribunal staff and supervising the judicial activity. Some Authors have affirmed - referring, for example, to the ancient episcopalis audientia - that with this reform a longtime practice of the Church was restored. However, a more accurate study of the evolution of the episcopal potestas iudicandi through the centuries reveals a progressive and conscious devolution of its daily exercise to specialized clerics and colleges, exclusively dedicated to their functions. This trend, transposed in the 1917 Code of Canon Law and confirmed in the present Code promulgated after the Second Vatican Council, has been lastly strengthened in the Instruction Dignitas connubii approved by John Paul II.