Contenuti per la categoria: Catholic church

SOMMARIO: 1. La funzione e il ruolo della diplomazia pontificia nella Comunità internazionale - 2. Le dimensioni dell’attività diplomatica della Santa Sede dal pontificato di Giovanni Paolo II a quello di Francesco - 3. Il riconoscimento dei diritti umani nella diplomazia di Papa Francesco - 4. A servizio della pace nel mondo - 5. Libertà religiosa, cooperazione per il bene comune e promozione della persona umana - 6. Annotazioni conclusive.

Diplomacy of the Holy See and the International Community In the context of the Holy See’s contribution to the good of mankind

ABSTRACT: The article takes into consideration the reasons and purposes for the presence of the ‘supreme governing body of the Catholic Church’ in the international Community. The author reflects on the relationship between the diplomatic activity of the Holy See and the delicate issues of peace and war. Therefore, attention is given to the methods of intervention put in place by Pope Francis with reference to the protection of fundamental human rights. In fact, from the pontificate of Paul VI, to those of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, to even the present pontificate of Francis, the juridical and geo-political questions concerning peace and terrorism, war and nuclear disarmament, the defense of religious freedom and the improvement of universal relations between states, the reform of international organizations and the promotion of human rights have strongly characterized the modus agendi of the two thousand year-old papal diplomacy. Faced with these questions, the Holy See seems to confirm both its own sui generis international juridical subjectivity and its own ‘positive neutrality’ by means of a significant work of mediation in offering universally shared solutions to protect the ontological, irrepressible dignity of the human person.

SOMMARIO: Introduzione - 1. Varietà di casi di titolarità dell’ufficio - 1.1. Casi di provvisione a vita dell’ufficio - 1.2. Casi di provvisione temporale dell’ufficio - 1.3. Uffici con limite massimo di età - 1.4. Motivi a favore della temporaneità delle nomine e della cessazione per età - 2. Novità del decreto del Dicastero per i Laici, la Famiglia e la Vita (3 giugno 2021) per quanto riguarda i limiti temporali del governo delle associazioni - 2.1 Aspetti generali della normativa - 2.2 Le motivazioni della norma - 2.3. Un profondo cambiamento nello spirito del diritto associativo ecclesiastico - 2.4. La necessaria sussidiarietà - 3. Conclusione.

Time and age in the ecclesiastical office. The Decree of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life (June 3rd 2021)

ABSTRACT: The article deals with the incidence of two factors in ecclesiastical offices: the passage of time and the fulfilment of certain age limits in the holder of the office. The first part of the study presents a systematic summary of the general legislation. The second part discusses the novelties and consequences of the treatment of the temporal factor of offices in the regulations published in 2021 by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life. The study concludes with an assessment of the norms of the Dicastery's decree with regard to the fundamental freedom of association in the Church.

SOMMARIO: 1. Riorganizzazione ecclesiastica e operazioni straordinarie degli enti canonici - 2. Le operazioni straordinarie nel Codice di diritto canonico: i canoni 121 e 122 - 3. Competenza dell’autorità ecclesiastica e procedura canonica - 4. (segue) licenze e controlli canonici - 5. Disciplina civile delle operazioni straordinarie degli enti canonici - 6. Mutamenti sostanziali degli enti ecclesiastici civilmente riconosciuti - 7. Operazioni straordinarie degli enti di diritto comune: trasformazioni di associazioni di fedeli e pie fondazioni - 8. (segue) fusioni e scissioni - 9. Enti religiosi con ramo del Terzo settore o di impresa sociale - 10. Profili fiscali delle operazioni straordinarie e beni culturali.

Conversion, merger and acquisition as well as split-up of Catholic Church entities under Canon and Italian laws *

ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes conversion, merger and acquisition as well as split-up of Catholic Church entities by assessing canon law (can. 121 and 122 C.i.c.), treaties between Church and Italy (l. n. 222/1985) as well as the Italian law governing non profit organizations.

SUMARIO: 1. Introducción - 2. Reflexiones acerca de la buena fama y el honor - 3. Desenvolvimiento histórico - 4. La buena fama en el Derecho canónico - 5. Reconocimiento jurídico - 6. Atentados contra la fama - 7. Murmuración, un arma que mata - 8. Murmuración. Delimitación conceptual - 9. Breve referencia histórica - 10. Pecado que atenta contra el prójimo - 11. Características y causas - 12. Regulación jurídica - 13. Los delitos canónicos de falsedad - 14. La reparación del daño - 15 Reparación y resarcimiento - 16. Restitución - 17. Satisfacción - 18. Indemnización - 19. Rescisión y restitución “in Integrum” - 20. Conclusión.

Considerations on the protection of the right to good repute in canon law1

ABSTRACT: Gossip is a sin that threatens the good reputation of neighbours. It belongs to the field of the so-called falsehood sins or crimes. They are clearly opposite to charity, whose transgression implies an attack against honour, the reputation of the accused and comunion in the Church, causing in turn a rupture in the order of social justice and the common good. It is a violation of the eight commandment of the Law of God which may be censored and combatted with firmness by the authority, does not admit ambiguity and must be undone in order to restore in their integrity the good reputation of the defamed.

SOMMARIO: 1. Inquadramento giuridico - 2. La nuova edizione delle Norme - 3. Conclusioni.

The new Norms Regarding Delicts Reserved To The Congregation For The Doctrine Of The Faith. First considerations

ABSTRACT: On December 7, 2021, the “third edition” of the Norms Regarding Delicts Reserved To The Congregation For The Doctrine Of The Faith issued by Pope Francis with a rescript of the previous October 8 was published. The text updates the Norms currently in force, issued by John Paul II in 2001 and modified by Benedict XVI in 2010, adapting them to the reformed Book VI of the CIC. The revision made it possible to incorporate the laws enacted in recent years regarding the abuse of minors by clerics and to regulate what has been followed by the Congregation itself. This work, indicating the legislative changes, offers some initial considerations.

SOMMARIO: 1. Considerazioni preliminari - 2. Rimane ancora una preferenza (seppure sfumata) per il processo giudiziario? - 3. Imposizione di misure cautelari - 4. Requisiti per lo svolgimento di determinate mansioni - 5. Impugnabilità delle decisioni in materia di cause incidentali (scomparsa del vetus art. 25 NDR) - 6. Ancora una volta la questione della ‘calamita processuale’ - 7. Una ‘potestas sanandi’ ampliata a norma dell’art. 11 NDR? - 8. Il quadro dei mezzi d’impugnazione contro la sentenza - 9. Una questione particolare sull’appello: può sostenersi la legittimazione attiva del Promotore di Giustizia a quo per l’interposizione dell’appello? - 10. La regolamentazione del procedimento penale amministrativo - 11. Il regime di contestazione delle decisioni penali amministrative: alcuni guadagni e alcune incertezze - 12. Ampliamento della facoltà di deroga alla prescrizione? - 13. La previsione del deferimento al Romano Pontefice per la dimissione dello stato clericale assieme alla dispensa del celibato (art. 26 NDR) e il curioso diritto dell’imputato di richiedere la dispensa ab oneribus (art. 27 NDR) - 14. Conclusioni.

Procedural aspects of the recent reform of the “Normae de delictis Congregationi pro Doctrina Fidei reservatis”: an interpretation and some suggestions

ABSTRACT: On December 8, 2021, a new modification of the "Normae de delictis Congregationi pro Doctrina Fidei reservatis" came into force. The legal modification has affected both the substantive and the procedural part of these norms. This article examines some of the most significant aspects of this reform from a procedural-canonical perspective and suggests some possible adjustments and future lines of reflection.

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Lo status dei cattolici orientali in Germania - 2.1. I fedeli della Chiesa ucraina - 2.2. Gli altri cattolici orientali - 3. Facoltà dei parroci latini di sposare coppie orientali? - 4. Chiesa di appartenenza dei figli di matrimoni misti - 4.1. Efficacia anche nella sfera giuridica latina? - 4.2. La situazione prima del motu proprio De concordia inter Codices - 4.3. La situazione dopo il motu proprio De concordia inter Codices - 5. Conclusioni.

The Status of Oriental Catholics in Germany. A current challenge for the coordination of the two Codes

ABSTRACT: According to an estimate by the Secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference, about 200,000 members of fourteen different Eastern Catholic Churches currently live in Germany. A first large migratory wave with a lasting impact up to today emerged with members of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the first decades of the 20th century. Lately, due to migration from Syria and Iraq starting in 2015, a larger number of Eastern Catholics - estimated by some in the five-digit range - have arrived in Germany. The change brought about by migration poses new challenges for pastoral care and canon law in Germany. The Ukrainians have their own jurisdiction in the form of an Apostolic Exarchy. All other Oriental Catholics have been entrusted to local Latin ordinaries by a decree of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches according to can. 916, § 5, CCEO. Therefore, the solution of many legal questions requires a synopsis of both codes. Do Latin parish priests have the authority to celebrate marriages for Oriental couples per se? To which church do children from a mixed marriage belong? The motu proprio De concordia inter Codices did not answer all questions and has also brought new ones.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Reformatio in capite et membris - 3. La riforma gregoriana - 4. Rinnovamento monastico e nuove forme di religiosità - 5. Erasmo da Rotterdam e l’Umanesimo cristiano - 6. Ecclesia semper reformanda - 7. Gli antecedenti della Riforma - 8. I poveri di Lione - 9. Il movimento dei Lollardi - 10. La rivoluzione boema - 11. Le guerre hussite.

The Protestant Reformation between requests for renewal and heretical movements

ABSTRACT: The Protestant Reformation represents an epochal event as it is widely considered the true moment of transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age. Without wishing in the least to diminish the innovative significance of the aforementioned phenomenon, it is however necessary to point out how the Catholic Church, during the course of its history, has been crossed by a yearning for regeneration that has involved both the constitutional and the devotional aspects of its being. To this end, it is enough to recall the reforming work of Gregory VII, the Cluniac monastic rigor, the contribution of some regular Orders (mendicants), as well as the spread of new forms of religiosity, from the modern Devotio to the Christian humanism of Desiderio Erasmus of Rotterdam. Similarly, the originality of the Reformation did not prevent modern Protestant historiography from considering it the natural result of an evangelical pluralism already present in the twelfth century. The direct reference is to the doctrines of Pietro Valdo, John Wycliff and Jan Hus, and in particular to their ecclesiology which in various ways will be proposed by Martin Luther, with his own peculiarity, and without ever reducing himself to it.

1 - Nel febbraio 2008 in questa Rivista telematica apparve un saggio di Antonio Fuccillo dal titolo Il valore della tradizione dottrinale: riappare dall’oblio il manuale di Antonio Traverso, contributo poi destinato a essere pubblicato anche in altra sede. Si tratta della dispensa delle Lezioni di Diritto Ecclesiastico del Prof. Antonio Traverso che contiene le lezioni dettate per l’anno accademico 1909-1910; un’opera composta da 493 pagine dattiloscritte, che indica come data di stesura il 28 maggio 1910 e che reca nel frontespizio la scritta “R. Università di Genova” (segue).

The rediscovered manuals of Antonio Traverso

ABSTRACT: The essay examines the manuals of the lessons of Ecclesiastical Law of Antonio Traverso who taught at the University of Genoa between the 19th and 20th Centuries. These completely forgotten works have recently been found and a short reading of them is presented here.

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione: dichiarazione d’intenti, obiettivo e metodo - 2. L’assenza di una costituzione nella Chiesa e problematica connessa - 3. L’ordinamento canonico e i suoi limiti nella tutela dei diritti individuali - 4. Un esempio paradigmatico: il processo per l’imposizion

Canonical criminal procedural law related to the principle of self-defense: a comparative analysis
 
ABSTRACT: The article compiles an analysis of canonical criminal procedural law tracing it in the first place to the lack, in the canonical system, of a constitutional law, which Paul VI had deemed necessary to be adopted when, in the aftermath of Vatican Council II, he decided to promote that Lex Ecclesiae Fundamentalis, later abandoned under the pontificate of John Paul II. The work makes use of a comparative analysis with Italian criminal procedural law and compares the procedural institutes of one and the other legal system to help understand the breadth and consistency of the gaps and shortcomings of canonical procedural law.e di un decreto penale.