Contenuti per la categoria: Religione e società

Che oggi matrimonio e famiglia siano in sofferenza è affermazione che non pare richiedere complesse dimostrazioni. Negarla avrebbe solo il significato di volersi sottrarre a qualunque confronto pur di riuscire a mantenere comunque fuori discussione i principi fondamentali (detti infatti non negoziabili ) della situazione giuridica attuale, apprezzata soprattutto dalla parte più conservatrice della società civile benpensante e tradizionalista. E la crisi è generale, almeno per il mondo occidentale, cristiano. (continua)

SOMMARIO : 1. Il giurista e la bioetica – 2. Le antinomie della bioetica odierna e la funzione del diritto - 3. Le peculiari competenze ed esperienze dell’ecclesiasticista al confine col non-diritto - 4. Oltre gli schemi del diritto " razionale-formale " - 5. I modelli procedurali della "complementarità/distinzione" e la loro apertura al valore della dignità di ogni singola umana esistenza.

The contribution of an ecclesiastical law scholar scientifically justified, en juriste, to the elaboration of bio-law

ABSTRACT : The contribution of an ecclesiastical law scholar to the elaboration of bio-law is legitimated by his study and experiences at the border with not-law and in relations with the laws-other ( religious and cultural ) distinct from that of the polis. The pattern of complementarity/distinction , that the scholar of ecclesiastical law draws from this kind of experience, can contribute at the articulation of bio-law according to procedural-justice , which facilitate the substantial concretization of the fundamental value of the dignity of every human reality .

ABSTRACT: The construction of human embryo using “mitochondrial donation” technologies is unacceptable, in terms of bioethics, and illegal and clearly and materially contradicts with a number of international instruments on human rights, human health protection, and bioethics.

SOMMAIRE: 1. Préface - 2. Religion et État dans la ʺ théocratie constitutionnelle ʺ égyptienne – 3. La jurisprudence constitutionnelle entre l’article 2 et l’affirmation des droits des femmes – 4. La Cour constitutionnelle égyptienne en tant que garante de la primauté du droit et des principes de la charia.

ABSTRACT: This work addresses the issue of women's rights in Islamic society. Particularly, attention is focused on a legal system, the Egyptian, who is heavily innervated by the principles of Islamic law. On the relationship between the principles of the Sharia and Women's Rights has repeatedly ruled the Constitutional Court that, with its peculiar interpretative reasoning on scriptural texts, has enabled the survival of the rules protecting women in the legal system of the State .

SOMMARIO: 1. Preambolo – 2. Valore teologico e valore giuridico dei pronunciati del Magistero ecclesiastico – 3. La lectio magistralis del 12 maggio 2003 di Giovanni Paolo II – 4. La Carta di Sant’Agata de’ Goti del 29 settembre 1997 e la legge italiana 25 luglio 2000 n. 209 – 5. La sfida dei Pontificati di Benedetto XVI e di Francesco – 6. Autorità politica mondiale e giustizia sociale – 7. L’umanesimo cristiano oggi – 8. Sintesi conclusiva.

Catholic Ethics, Debt and Social Justice in the Light of a New International Order

ABSTRACT: Since twenty years a group of scholars, including the Author of this essay, has been fighting for the reconstruction of the legal framework of the international debt. The Charter of Sant’Agata de’Goti (September 29, 1997), which is the result of the passionate work by a Commission on usury and international debt, has virtually been travelling around the world, including the Latin American Parliament and the Vatican City, finally landed in the Italian Parliament with the 25 July 2009 Italian Act (n. 209). Besides the legal relevance, this essay is the testimony of a significant part of the service that the Author has carried out in the interest of the Holy See and the Catholic Church; this is in fact a summary of his twenty-year commitment on the (public-private-international) debt, in view of the forthcoming visit of the Holy Father Francis in the United States (September 2015), on the eve of the 2015-2016 Extraordinary Jubilee Year (called the “Holy Year of Mercy”), which again will underline the principle of natural order for all the goods on earth. This papal journey assumes considerable importance, especially when related to the Pope’s speech, which will be held at the Congress and at the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. The Author of this essay hopes that, in the context of those venerable international institutions, together with the Italian government, the Holy Father – under his personal commitment which is recognized in the world – will propose to the UN Assembly the start of the procedures for requesting the opinion of the AIA Court of Justice about the consistency between the rules governing the developing Countries’ foreign debt (but today you might be referring to the international debt tout court ) and the framework of human rights principles, which includes the rights of peoples. We must also keep in mind that, in order to better understand the frame of reference, a deputy of the Italian Chamber, Salvatore Cherchi, together with other proponents of the mentioned 2000 Act (n. 209) – whose Article 7 remained unfulfilled – have been directly inspired by the mentioned Charter of Sant’Agata de’Goti on usury and international debt.

Il passaggio da “l’età dei diritti” alla “età del nuovi diritti” ha ricevuto forza propulsiva da “il riconoscimento della dignità della singola persona umana come centro dell’ordine sociale”. L’apertura delle frontiere nazionali, il fenomeno della globalizzazione dei mercati, i cambiamenti dei costumi, per non dire d’altro, hanno indotto ad aggiungere l’aggettivo “nuovo” a molteplici forme di tutela degli interessi emergenti, divenuti col passare del tempo giuridicamente rilevanti: nuovi contratti, nuove forme proprietarie, nuove strutture associative, nuovi delitti, nuove pene, nuove economie, nuovi strumenti finanziari, etc., etc. (continua)

SOMMARIO: 1. La prova di sostenibilità/insostenibilità delle differenze – 2. Le indicazioni ricavabili dalla casistica emergente: a) in merito al rilievo civile da assegnare alla qualifica confessionale dell’agente – 3. Segue: b) in merito al rispetto da parte dello Stato laico della specificità del “diritto della responsabilità canonica” – 4. Breve elogio della responsabilità “dimezzata”.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Un momento storico tormentato - 3. Tra conservatorismo e aperture - 4. L’orientamento delle istituzioni cattoliche - 5. Il dissenso cattolico - 5. Conclusioni.

SOMMARIO: 1. L’assenza di una disciplina legislativa - 2. Un servizio pubblico laico. Il dictum del Consiglio di Stato - 3. Definire la “cura” in un contesto multireligioso - 4. Una soluzione eticamente sostenibile - 5. Riflessioni conclusive.

ABSTRACT : This paper examines a recent decision of the Italian State Council relating to the life-sustaining treatment and advance directives. This decision - which is notable for having shared a secular notion of "health care" - does not fail to emphasize the need for an incisive intervention of the national law that aims at regulating the so-called "good death".

SOMMARIO: 1. Due forme di giustificazionismo: inclusivo ed esclusivo - 2. Il giustificazionismo moderato di Gerald Gaus - 3. Il principio di motivazione secolare e le problematiche operative - 4. Due modelli a confronto: convergenza vs. consensus - 5. Verso una formulazione minimal del proviso di giustificazione - 6. Alcune notazioni critiche: la sovrapposizione tra i concetti di motivo e ragione e il fraintendimento sull’overlapping consensus - 7. Giustificazionismo e accomodation : possibili implicazioni?

Abstract: According to the justificatory liberalism view, to respect each citizen as free and equal requires that no one simply be forced to submit to the judgments of others; then is necessary laws must be justified to those subject by reasons that everyone could share. There are two different perspectives: justificatory liberalism inclusive and justificatory liberalism exclusive; only for the second view is not binding to expunge religious-based reasoning from political justification. Gerald Gaus claims that the model of consensus is based on a misleading intepretation of the overlapping consensus conception: "because we cannot reasonably expect all members of the public to actually endorse religious reasons as good reasons, they are not justificatory reasons". Gaus define a conceptual political system inspired to the possibilities of convergence and also try to challenge the standard formulation of the liberal proviso by offering a miminalist reformulation of the translation clause. The paper analize and criticize this inclusive model of justificatory liberalism.