Contenuti per la categoria: Varie

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: 1. Premessa – 2. Dalle “condizioni svariate e complesse della coscienza giuridica del popolo” alla “sovranità dello Stato” – 3. Il mancato accordo politico – 4. Conclusione.

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and the "Roman question"

ABSTRACT: The motivation that leads Orlando to negotiate the solution of the “Roman Question” with Monsignor Bonaventura Cerretti, that he “met” in Paris, as “sent” by Benedict XV, focuses on the work of political agreement, on the “crisis” of the “Orlando ministry” and, therefore, on the Lateran Pacts of 11th February 1929, which mark the overcoming of a politics, founded on the “law of guarantees”, and give a “not very different text from that of Orlando - Cerretti’s one”.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Rilevanza del De gemitu per una “teologia politica” - 3. Il problema dell’appartenenza all’Ecclesia: il canto della “Colomba” - 4. Il can. I della Distinctio XCII del Decretum di Graziano - 5. Osservazioni conclusive.

De gemitu Columbae by Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino and the jus publicum ecclesiasticum

ABSTRACT: One of the minor works of cardinal Roberto Bellarmino, De Gemitu Columbae sive De Bono lacrymarum (1617) is composed of three books: the first is dedicated to the "need for moans"; the second and third, respectively, to the sources and the fruits of the "tears". In investigating the origin of the moan, after quoting Isaiah and Nahum, the Author insists on a verse, particularly evocative, taken from the Song of Songs (6, 9). Therefore, the moan is not referred only to the animal in itself, but also to the whole Church: the work in question seems to be more connected to the textures of a "political theology" than to the classic counter-reformed edification readings. The present contribution aims to examine the relationships between De gemitu and the jus publicum ecclesiasticum, not only externum but also - and above all - internum. And, by this way, the highly debated theme of belonging to the Ecclesia, faced by the great Counter-reform theorist through the images of the dove and the chant.

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Il “Digesto Italiano” Utet - 3. I lemmi ecclesiasticistici e canonistici nel “Digesto Italiano” Utet - 4. Osservazioni conclusive.

State law on religion and canon law in the “Digesto italiano” published by Utet (1884-1921).

ABSTRACT: This paper aims to clarify the history of “Digesto Italiano”, a famous legal encyclopedia published by “Utet”, Italian publishing house in Turin. A special attention is given to the vocabulary words relating to the canon law and State law on religion.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa. Lo sguardo verso l’alto. Il Papa più italiano e più universale della modernità - 2. Paolo VI e l’amore per l’Italia. Storia, Risorgimento, Repubblica - 3. Il programma dell’Ecclesiam Suam del 1964. Dialogo con i non credenti e dialogo interreligioso - 4. Ebraismo ed ecumenismo, per l’unione del ceppo ebraico-cristiano - 5. Fede e ragione. L’universalità della Chiesa e dell’ONU - 6. Collegialità e unità nel governo della Chiesa. Coscienza della funzione petrina - 7. Un fremito lo prende, una vertigine, talora una follia, lo invade. Ma Paolo VI chiude le ferite della storia - 8. Profezia e storicità del magistero di Papa Montini. Sacerdozio, celibato, i tempi della storia - 9. Etica, famiglia, sessualità. Paolo VI, l’antropologia solidale, contro il nichilismo della dissoluzione - 10. Conclusioni. Paolo VI, uomo della fede e della sapienza.

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: 1. Premessa - 2. Identità di genere ovvero la cultura che sovrasta la natura - 3. Presupposti antropologici in tema di sessualità - 4. Il potere decisionale del giudice - 5. Il diritto alla identità di genere così inteso esiste davvero? - 6. Considerazioni conclusive.

SOMMARIO: 1. Il "vivente": inoperosità dei concetti della filosofia profana dei Lumi - 2. La ricerca-costruzione di una infinita-fine - 3. Le scienze "sperimentali" come la non distinzione tra "causa" e "effetto" - 4. La nuova questione di metodo posta al "vivente" - 5. La sfida di una etica come adeguazione tra etica e metodo.

ABSTRACT: "Living beings". Irrelevancy of the concept by philosophers of Enlightenment. Research-creation as endless end of living beings. "Experimental" sciences constraint to elaborate an adequacy between ethics and methodological approach.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. La dimensione “teorica” - 3. La dimensione “pratica” - 4. La dimensione “personale” - 5. Conclusione.

The “heretic” Piero Gobetti and the three “dimensions” of the history of the Risorgimento

ABSTRACT: Piero Gobetti’s “the heresy of the Risorgimento” allows to distinguish three “points of view” of the political and cultural experience of the “heretical” Gobetti, the “theoretical” one, the “practical” one and “personal” one. Three “profiles” that realized a systematic dimension, in the relationship of the Risorgimento with the “Liberal Revolution”, according to a research perspective that has never been fully analyzed. A reflection that highlights the “drama of the Risorgimento”, the “programmatic formulas” of “The Liberal Revolution” and Piero Gobetti's “clarity of authentic feelings” which moves on the “ground of heresy” with his “choice” of life.

Sommario: 1. Una volta la certezza era un dogma – 2. La prospettiva dinamica – 3. La certezza come valore ideale e la realtà del diritto – 4. L’orizzonte odierno: il tramonto dello scienziato. – 5. Regole vs. princìpi: una contrapposizione sviante – 6. Gli argomenti dell’interprete – 7. La necessità di dotarsi di strumenti nuovi sullo sfondo di una rappresentanza politica in crisi.