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For a critical analysis of the war experience in the Western civilisation (from war-duels to the “blind” ban on so called aggression) 

ABSTRACT: In taking up the threads of a meditation recently begun in this Journal, the Author manages to update its profile within an increasingly decisive criticism of the Briand-Kellogg pact: unnatural resolution of the dialectic between national interests in a pure et simple of so-called aggression of one state by another. The criticism moves in particular from the nature, no less brutally political than the war itself, of the UN decision to ban the alleged aggressor, without any analysys whatsoeverof the underlying reasons that constituted the basis for it, in the presence of a shared judging body and impartiality, capable too of suggesting possible conciliatory measures also with regard to the damage already caused by the war. The essay concludes by deriving the need to overcome the noted backwordness of the UN Charter on this point, channeling it into the context of a culture of “mild law”, inclined to wards the gradual overcoming of the “sovereign state” model, in the context of the recent development of nonimperial federal forms of coexistence and non- violent collaboration between nations.

SOMMARIO: 1. Una premessa - 2. Sull’uso della forza nella rivoluzione oceanica - 3. Tra legittimismo ottocentesco e rivolta delle nazioni - 4. Sulle note di anarchia dei rapporti internazionali fra le due guerre mondiali - 5. (segue). ... e sulla fondamentale questione dell’impotenza giudicante dell’ONU - 6. Conflitto e aggressione nell’anarchia succeduta alla Santa Alleanza - 7. (segue) ... contro l’autodichia esasperata delle potenze egemoni - 8. Itinerari alternativi (non bellici) alla decisione di guerra -9. (segue) ... in tema di costituzioni europee e di coercizione nei trattati “di pace” - 10. Verso orizzonti nuovi in materia di riformismo costituzionale?

Christian conception of history in Carl Schmitt’s Thought

ABSTRACT: The aim of this essay is to analyse the Christian conception of history in Carl Schmitt’s thought, already developed in his previous works, but again recalled and reworked in the 1950s, in order to hinder the technological drift of society. In particular, in outlining this new and different temporal horizon, Schmitt, on the one hand, recalled the solitary and prophetic intuitions of Donoso Cortés and, on the other, the mysterious figure of the katéchon, or rather, one of the most meaningful concepts of Schmitt’s theological-political Weltanschauung.

SOMMARIO: 1. Un nuovo e terrificante scenario - 2. Tramonto o rinascita dell’eone cristiano? - 3. Katéchon versus Éschaton.

A legal monster of the twentieth century: from technological warfare to its humanistic overcoming?

ABSTRACT: The Author attempts to reconsider the dispute that has opened between Russie and Ukraine in the light not only of the evident flagrance of an abrupt, illegitimate ‘punitive expedition’ by Moscow towards a key territory for the control of the Black Sea, but also in the context of the great game of a power confrontation, never really concluded, between the two military blocs, despite the agreements on nuclear desarmament stipulated between Reagan and Gorbachev in the constituent phase of an unprecedented Russian Federation, after the passage from the start of a troubled liquidation of the Stalinism to the announced overcoming of the blockade policy. A context, against which NATO’s failure to comply with the mutual commitment of the two parties to the complete cessation of mutual hostile conduct, prior to perestroika, seems full and flagrant. The essay recognizes in the event the clear failure of an apparent opening of trust towards the post-communist counterpart, internal to the substantial maintenance of an armed peace with a world to be kept for a long time in a sort of quarantine on the margins of “Western civilisation”, for an indefinite period and under the strict control of an internationalized military apparatus of exorbitant dimensions. A dead-end road, destined to produce even partial moments of exploitation of the repressive functions of the UN, rather than supporting its fundamental role of “saving future generations from the scourge of war”. To such a logic the A. tries to escape, in an attempt to bring the cooperation relationships laboriously woven into the fabric of international relation back to a framework of substantial good faith, from human subjects whose trust and honor always seem due, until rigorously proven otherwise; in the belief that progressive success can only come to these relations by restoring a framework that favours the basic ethical choices on the UN statute, as an indispensable background for constructive settling of potential situations of conflict of interest, which arise between member states in the course of their peaceful cooperation towards an orderly sharing of the planet’s resources.

SOMMARIO: 1. Preambolo - 2. La guerra ‘giusta’ in Occidente. Tra Tarda Antichità e Medioevo del diritto - 3. (segue) Evoluzione del problema nell’età dell’imperialismo - 4. Interrogativi sulla resistenza non violenta come verità più profonda sull’uomo - 5. (segue) Fra realismo politico e profezia del Regno (Mt. V, 38-48) - 6. Centralità della Croce: l’imitazione del processo a Gesù negli “Acta martyrum” - 7. (segue) Fede e ragione. Il doppio registro dell’economia salvifica - 8. Quadro sintetico dei residui ostacoli sulla via di un mondo diverso e solidale - 9. (segue) Sull’incompatibilità tra deterrenza e trattativa. L’ammonimento cinese - 10. Etica confuciana, diritto romano, diritto canonico. La Cina, oggi - 11. Dal ‘maschio alfa’ al giudice. Agli albori del divieto di vendetta privata - 12. (segue) Su un’Autorità addetta al controllo dell’aggressività interstatale - 13. Verso una nuova guerra ‘giusta’? Dubbi di fondo sulla nozione di aggressione - 14. Una NATO senza legge verso un gioco, di cui nessuno è responsabile? - 15 (segue) Sottrarre la neutralizzazione all’autonomia degli stati? - 16. È già irricevibile una tardiva ’actio finium regundorum’ sotto garanzia ONU? - 17. Quali altre vie per la missione di una ‘Russia eterna’, nella fraternità dei popoli? - 18 (segue) Quasi una conclusione.

The perspective of 'Praedicate Evangelium' regarding liturgical abuses

ABSTRACT: The paper examines the transformations made by the Ap. const. Praedicate Evangelium [= EP] regarding the contrast of liturgical abuses. Beginning with the problem of celebratory propriety that emerged in the context of postconciliar disbandment, it first examines the essential features of the case of abusiveness (the frequency of the conduct, the erroneous presumption of justification for the conduct, and the prominence of the authoritative condition) and, then, the main magisterial and papal directive interventions. Article 66 PB outlined a specific supervisory function on the part of the Congregation for Worship. PE, indulging the criterion of decentralizing co-responsibility, stimulates awareness of its own attributions and the specific responsibility of the bishops in ensuring the observance of liturgical norms. Article 96 EP therefore makes explicit the duties of the episcopal office and the supporting and assisting role of the Dicastery. The elimination of abusiveness is expressly linked with increased liturgical formation. The normative change does not change the essence of ecclesial discipline; however, it requires a qualitative leap in the pastoral solicitude of bishops (the most significant contribution is the deontological call). An in-depth theoretical and practical study of the problem of liturgical abusiveness, without trespassing on casuistry, can help complete the cultural and regulatory turnaround underway.

SOMMARIO: 1. Il sentito problema della correttezza celebrativa - 2. L’inquadramento della fattispecie abusiva - 3. Gli interventi magisteriali e direttivi pontifici - 4. La disciplina dell’art. 66 della ‘Pastor bonus’ - 5. Il nuovo approccio di ‘Praedicate Evangelium’ - 5.1. Il contesto della riforma curiale - 5.2. L’art. 96 di ‘Praedicate Evangelium’ - 5.3. La responsabilità episcopale - 6. L’opportuno collegamento con la formazione liturgica - 7. Un mutamento disciplinare o attitudinale?

Constantine I The Great. The Emperor, the man, the leader

ABSTRACT: History is not the teacher of life, but perhaps the reverse could be true if one looks at the emblematic events and proceedings of this interesting study conference, held at the University of Bari from 17 to 18 November 2022, in which the mysteries of the past are probed through the eyes of the present. The author reviews the salient features of the figure of Constantine I the Great as Emperor, Man and Commander to reach perplexing conclusions about his elevation to the honours of the Altars, especially in the Orthodox world.

SOMMARIO: 1. Vita magistra historiae - 2. L’Imperatore - 3. L’uomo - 4. Il condottiero.

The Messina genesis of the dual vocation of Giorgio La Pira, a scholar of Roman law and Venerable of the Catholic Church

ABSTRACT: In the same Messina environment in which the religious conversion of the young La Pira grew, his vocation as a historian of Romanity was also defined as being able to gather the typical unity profile with respect for the diversity of faiths and Mediterranean cultures. Therefore, it is not surprising that Pope Francis, once the "Holy Mayor of Florence" was proclaimed Venerable, agreed with him in recognising the Mediterranean as a place of communication between different worlds.

1 - Un rigoroso pensatore teutonico, Ludwig Wittgenstein, della cui dottrina, pur nel dissenso, non può non farsi carico ogni serio ambito di studi, ha enunciato, fra gli altri, due asserti piuttosto allarmanti in ordine a quanto ci si prefigge di trattare, e cioè: a) che il passato non ci direbbe molto del presente e b) che quando non si ha una conoscenza logico-empirica, cioè fondata sull’esperienza sensibile, sarebbe meglio tacere. (continua)

The friendship with Gladio Gemma in the years of ours teaching in the University of Modena

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. I fatti della politica e l’ambizione di contribuire alle esigenze di armonizzazione costituzionale e allo sviluppo della vita democratica in Italia - 3. Il concilio Vaticano Il e le trasformazioni della società italiana negli anni sessanta - 4. Il dibattito culturale e politico sulla riforma della legislazione ecclesiastica.

ABSTRACT: Individuals and experiences that, in the years between 1962 and 1970, had an important influence on the civic and political growth of the author and Gladio Gemma. New focus was given to the issue of relations between the State and the Catholic Church in the late fifties. The Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 and the transformation of Italian society in the 1960s. Tendencies in the jurisprudence on the theme of relations between the state and religious confessions. The cultural and political debate on the reform of ecclesiastical legislation.

Canon law and choral singing: unity and plurality among the people of God. An brief introduction

ABSTRACT: Liturgy, music and law seems appartently to be strictly divided dimensions of a religious world. Instead, it is interesting to note how these three different cosmos of religiosity could live together and nurture themself. Even more interesting it is to learn how liturgy law has and music has been used by Catholic and Protestant canon law to shape their different identities through history.

SOMMARIO: Premessa - 1. Canto e liturgia - 2. Dal canto gregoriano al canto piano - 3. La musica figurata, l’organo, le cappelle musicali.

Chant and music in the liturgy: musicological observations between musical practice and ecclesiastical regulations *

ABSTRACT: Chant, polyphony, the role of the organ, and other forms of music performed in the liturgy are examined from the middle ages to the early modern era in order to point out ecclesiastical regulations and possible legislation.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. La fase antepraeparatoria (1959-1960) - 3. La fase praeparatoria (1960-1962) - 3.1. La prima sessione plenaria (12 e 15 novembre 1960) - 3.2. La Relatio De musica sacra presentata alla seconda sessione plenaria (12-22 aprile 1961) - 3.3. Il dibattito sulla Relatio De Musica sacra nella seconda sessione plenaria - 3.4. La Relatio De Musica sacra dopo la seconda sessione plenaria - 4. La redazione dello Schema presentato al Concilio - 5. Il dibattito conciliare sulla Liturgia (1962-1963) e l’approvazione della Costituzione Conciliare Sacrosanctum Concilium.

Music and theology in Sacrosanctum Concilium: the munus ministeriale of music in the liturgy

ABSTRACT: The focus of this article is showing the relationship between music and theology in the Constitution on The Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosantum Concilium). Initially, the article examines the altiora principia of SC in Chapter I which represents the context in which to interpret Chapter VI on the sacred music. Then, from the study of their redactional process, there’s a detailed review of some of the numbers from the same chapter on the sacred music, in order to show how some expressions were elaborated to define the connection between music and theology, especially munus ministeriale.