Contenuti per la categoria: Matrimonio canonico

SOMMARIO: 1. Una premessa circa il contesto e le motivazioni della lettera al Pontefice - 2. La Correctio Filialis de Haeresibus Propagatis: punto di arrivo o di inizio di un dibattito? Antecedenti storici e parallelismi da precisare nelle argomentazioni degli estensori - 3. Un bersaglio polemico non sorprendente: l’Esortazione Amoris Laetitia. Questioni pastorali e contrapposizioni tra visioni diverse sul diritto della Chiesa - 4. Lo stylus del Pontificato. Temi giuridici e prospettive future per lo studio dell’ordo iuris ecclesiae: prime conclusioni.

Lights and shadows of a controversial document: the "Correctio filialis de haeresibus propagatis". Some outlines in Public Canon Law. 

ABSTRACT: The aim of this essay is to study and to analyze the current debate about recent Pope Francis’s propositions and affirmations regarding the Roman catholic doctrine and the concrete development of religious marriages in secular societies. One of the most important documents disputing the latest reforms and measures could be considered the so called “Correctio Filialis de Haeresibus Propagatis” that is intended to be a sort of manifesto of dissatisfaction and disappointment against the renewal of a comprehensive and tolerant approach in Canon Law’s rules concerning the status of divorced people and the assumed “irregular” civil unions. In spite of underlining some important aspects, probably not completely deepened by the Pope, that document at the same time undervalues the conceptual efforts to make the doctrine adequate to answer to a typical sense of restlessness in our time, even from a legal point of view.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa: la necessaria precedenza della libertà religiosa sulla laicità - 2. Radici etico-religiose del matrimonio, libertà religiosa e origini del matrimonio civile - 3. Il matrimonio civile: tra neutralità e ideologia - 4. Ritorno del fenomeno religioso nell’età della secolarizzazione: ricadute in materia matrimoniale - 5. La restituzione di matrimonio e famiglia alla società civile e alla religione - 6. La (ri)conquista di spazi di “diritto personale” e ritorno alla disciplina religiosa del matrimonio - 7. Diritto alla tutela dell’identità e “princìpi non negoziabili” dello Stato democratico. Conclusioni.

Marriage and family between secularism and religious freedom

ABSTRACT: Given that between secularism and religious freedom there is a relationship of instrumentality of the first compared to the second, in the essay there’s a recall to the ethical-religious roots of the marriage’s legislation, which, starting from the Protestant Reformation and then from the French Revolution has undergone a process of secularization and secularism with the birth of the civil marriage. It is a process that has been motivated (also) by reasons of religious freedom, but which has led, by the State, to the subtraction of the marriage’s subject from the society. Today there is a substantial return from the state to the society of the discipline about the various forms of life and family communions, and this, in a religiously pluralistic society, involves (also) the return of the marriage to the religion.

SOMMARIO: 1. Gli adiuncta che rendono manifesta la nullità matrimoniale: 1.1. La ratio del processus brevior; 1.2. La conoscenza del fatto nel grado di evidentia rei; 1.3. Le condizioni della manifesta nullità matrimoniale - 2. La rilevanza giuridica della gravidanza imprevista: 2.1. Il valore dell’inserimento nell’elenco dell’art. 14, § 1 RP; 2.2. La gravidanza imprevista come fatto complesso; 2.3. L’incidenza della gravidanza imprevista sul consenso matrimoniale - 3. La gravidanza imprevista come elemento di fatto delle fattispecie di nullità del matrimonio: 3.1. Incapacità per motivi psicologici: la mancanza di libertà interiore; 3.2. Simulazione totale; 3.3. Esclusione di un elemento o di una proprietà essenziale; 3.4. Dolo; 3.5. Vis vel metus.

Unforeseen pregnancy: presumptive value in Rotal jurisprudence

ABSTRACT: The contribution examines the probative weight of unforeseen pregnancy in the different grounds of nullity of marriage consent according to the jurisprudence of the apostolic tribunal of the Roman Rota. In order to each concrete scenario (factispecies) of nullity, is analyzed the possibility that unforeseen pregnancy could configure a circumstance of events or persons in which the nullity of marriage may be manifest, as proposed by the art. 14 of the Ratio procedendi attached to the motu proprio Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus, related to processus brevior.

SOMMARIO: 1. Il contesto storico e politico della Riforma anglicana - 2. Il precedente storico: la dichiarazione di nullità del matrimonio tra Edoardo IV ed Elizabeth Woodville - 3. Il Titulus Regius - 4. Fondamento giuridico del Titulus Regius in base al diritto canonico - 4.1 (segue) Aspetti sostanziali - 4.2 (segue) Profili procedurali - 5. Sui motivi di nullità del matrimonio tra Enrico VIII e Caterina d’Aragona - 6. Il processo di nullità matrimoniale e lo scisma - 7. Conclusioni.

Did two marriages cause the Anglican Schism?

ABSTRACT: The Anglican schism, solemnized by the Act of Supremacy in 1534 emerged from the European Protestant Reformation that at its beginning was a movement of dissent against the Roman Church. It spread throughout Europe thanks to political and economic support of many princes who transformed it into State religion. Movement’s success is strictly linked to the intention of individual States to claim their autonomy, unfettering themselves from external influences, such as the papacy, and thus creating State’s territorial Churches. The Church of England’s schism originates from this peculiar historical and religious scenario, and has its roots in a general process to claim sovereignty of the Kingdom against any external influence. Nevertheless, someone – especially English literature, still believes that the real reason behind Anglican schism is Pope Clement VII’s refusal to declare null the marriage of Henry VIII with Catherine of Aragon and consequently preventing him from marrying Anne of Boleyn. We deemed it necessary a critical examination of the matter concerning the refusal to grant nullity to Henry VIII’s marriage, in order to determine whether the underlying cause of the Act of Supremacy was a love story that turned out badly, or other more ordinary reasons. For this purpose, we have analysed an equally resounded, but lesser known trial. It regards the declaration of nullity of the marriage between Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, granted few decades earlier, as it represents a significant legal/matrimonial precedent of schismatic nature. We tried to evaluate the legal legitimacy, according to matrimonial canon law, in force at that time, to evaluate whether or not justice was done.

SOMMARIO: PARTE I: DAI SINODI DEI VESCOVI SU MATRIMONIO E FAMIGLIA AI DUE ‘MOTU PROPRIO’ DI PAPA FRANCESCO - 1. I Sinodi dei Vescovi del 2014 e del 2015 quali ‘contesti interpretativi’ delle leggi pontificie. Alcune riflessioni sull’ermeneutica delle norme relative alle procedure di nullità matrimoniale - 2. Le Litterae Apostolicae Motu Proprio datae Mitis iudex dominus Iesus e il diritto processuale codiciale - 3. La scelta dello strumento formale - 4. ‘Singolarità’ della pubblicazione/promulgazione … - 5. (segue) … e della stessa fase preparatoria - 6. Il proemio e la Ratio procedendi - PARTE II: IL COMPLICARSI PROGRESSIVO DEL QUADRO DELLE FONTI - 1. Il dilemma interpretativo circa l’abrogazione ovvero la deroga del Motu Proprio Qua cura e circa la ‘sopravvivenza’ dei tribunali regionali italiani. Le Risposte particolari del Pontificio Consiglio per i Testi Legislativi e le ‘indicazioni’ del Supremo Tribunale della Segnatura Apostolica - 2. (segue) La dichiarazione della mens legislatoris del 4 novembre 2015 - 3. (segue) Il Rescritto pontificio (ex audientia SS.mi?) del 7 dicembre 2015 - 4. (segue) Il ‘tavolo di lavoro’ Santa Sede-Conferenza Episcopale Italiana istituito da Papa Francesco il 1° giugno 2016. La mens legislatoris del 12 marzo 2016 - 5. Vademecum applicativi (?) - 5.1. L’Istruzione Dignitas connubii - 5.2. Il «Sussidio applicativo del Motu pr. Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus» della Rota Romana del gennaio 2016 (e il Rescriptum ex audientia SS.mi del 22 gennaio 2016) - 5.3. Un’appendice: la Lettera Circolare della Segnatura Apostolica Inter munera del 30 luglio 2016 - PARTE III: PROSPETTIVE DI RAZIONALIZZAZIONE - 1. Verso una soluzione quanto più possibile rapida delle questioni interpretative aperte: l’approdo a una tendenzialmente stabile ‘conclusione’ della riforma del processo e dell’ordinamento giudiziario ecclesiale - 2. La produzione di norme nella Chiesa: una ponderata ars legiferandi e una garantista distinzione delle funzioni quali essenziali esigenze di legalità e non di mero legalismo. Pubblicazione, promulgazione e divulgazione: una necessaria revisione.

The reform of the process for the declaration of nullity of marriage: the progressive complication of the regulatory sources

ABSTRACT: The essay examines, first of all, the anomalous ways in which the Pope Francis’s reform about the process of declaration of nullity of marriage was prepared, published and finally promulgated in 2015. Even the legal configuration of the document issued is atypical. Inevitably, many interpretative doubts have arisen in these two years. Consequently, a number of regulatory measures have been issued to resolve this situation. The present work examines their very problematic qualification and the consequent uncertainties about their legal value. Currently the situation is chaotic: in reference, above all, to the framework of the normative sources and to the various application problems of the new reform. An incisive intervention of overall clarification is necessary, concludes the article.

SOMMARIO: 1. Discretio iudicii abituale e attuale - 2. Gravità del defectus iudicii - 3. L’influsso del defectus iudicii sugli iura et officia matrimonialia essentialia mutuo tradenda et acceptanda.

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. 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. 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. Il matrimonio nella teologia ortodossa - 2. I caratteri essenziali del matrimonio ortodosso - 3. Il principio di oἰκονομία - 4. Oἰκονομία e indissolubilità del matrimonio.

Divorce and oikonomia in Orthodox canon law: the merciful application of the law

ABSTRACT: Despite the fact that the principles of the unity and indissolubility of the conjugal bond represent constituent and essential properties of the sacrament of marriage in Eastern law, Orthodox theology allows some exceptions due to the schlerocardia of man, permitting the “economic” application of the rule. The paper aims to outline the ontological essence of oikonomia as a transposition in the human dimension of the redeeming force of the divine condescension. According to tradition, the institution finds its privileged application in marriage; therefore, the intention is to demonstrate that Orthodox ecclesiology tolerates second marriages as the “lesser evil” compared to fornication. This applies both to second marriages of divorcees and widows/widowers, since the sacrament of marriage survives the physical death of the spouse and remains a real image of the Mystery of the Incarnation. The paper will then analyse the circumstances that justify the “economic” interpretation of the precept: the “moral death” of the marriage due to a serious and despicable act, collective good, the worse damage that could derive from the rigid interpretation of the rule (akribeia)

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione – 2. Le motivazioni generali sottese al Motu Proprio – 3. Sguardo d’insieme al Motu Proprio – 4. La competenza ratione ascriptionis per assistere alle nozze (can. 1109) – 5. L’assistente nei matrimoni in cui almeno una parte è orientale. Il nuovo § 3 del can. 1108 – 6. La facoltà di benedire il matrimonio di due acattolici orientali: il nuovo § 3 del can. 1116 – 7. Conclusione.