Contenuti per la categoria: Catholic church

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Il libro IV come introduzione al tema - 3. I magna latrocinia - 4. Lo svolgimento logico della tesi agostiniana sul rapporto tra Stato e giustizia - 5. Cristo come unico criterio per la giustizia/virtù/felicità - 6. Il libro XIX come allargamento dei confini della legittimità dello Stato - 7. Le due civitates - 8. L’assetto delle due città nel saeculum - 9. L’identificazione della CD con la Chiesa - 10. La predestinazione quale criterio di ascrizione alle due civitates - 11. Il DcD come strumento politico - 12. Una conseguenza imprevedibile (?): la secolarizzazione - 13. Conclusione.

Augustine’s De civitate Dei and its influence on the process of secularization of the State

ABSTRACT: Is justice essential to State? Augustine, in the fourth book of the City of God, starts with a strict idea of State, but then widens the definition: he grants that also an unjust - not based on the real God - State may be a real State. This option seems to be prominent in the process of secularization enacted in the last centuries, but it’s also connected to other matter: the predestination, the identification (or not) between the City of God and the Church, and so on. Methodologically, I tried to read what Augustine really wrote and not what others said about his works.

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. L’odierno dibattito sulle prerogative patriarcali costantinopolitane e il gathering di Amman - 3. La ratio attributiva delle prerogative ecclesiastiche romane al vescovo di Costantinopoli-ΝέαςῬώμης - 4. Le prerogative ecclesiastiche costantinopolitane - 5. Il conferimento imperiale del titolo patriarcale al vescovo di Roma e di patriarca ecumenico al vescovo di Costantinopoli-Νέας Ῥώμης - 6. L’ecumenicità dell’omofonia patriarcale - 7. Osservazioni finali.

Patriarchal ecumenical homophony

ABSTRACT: The establishment in 2019 of a new Ukrainian autocephaly raises the question of the legal basis of exclusive Constantinopolitan canonical prerogatives. As is known, after the Edict of Thessalonica of 380, can. cost. 3 of 381 attributes the Roman prerogatives to the bishop of Constantinople-Νεα Ρωμη.The ethnarchical religious role, assumed by the Roman bishop, guardian of the Romanitas, (conceived as the apostolic heritage of the Roman church), determines the Eastern emperors to confer the patriarchal title (previously reserved for the Jewish etnarch of Palestine), to Roman pope and ecumenical patriarch, to the bishop of Constantinople, which became the only seat of the imperium.The Justinian articulation of the ecclesiastical order comes to highlight in the homophony of patriarchs the attestation of the unity, doctrinal and disciplinary, in the Church of the ecumenical empire. Therefore, today's panorthodox reception of Ukrainian autocephaly cannot be considered an ecclesial burden due to the universal canonical authority of the patriarchate of Constantinople. Consequently, the primates cannot accept it in the name of the respective autocephalous Church, in contrast with canon 34. In respect of the nomocanonical tradition, today's Ukrainian controversy must therefore be submitted to the assembly of patriarchs in order to reach a canonical unanimous (homophone) solution to the controversy.

SOMMARIO: 1. Momenti di destino - 2. Lezioni sul diritto vaticano - 3. Stato pontificio e Stato della Città del Vaticano - 4. Diritto canonico e ordinamento vaticano - 5. Riflessioni conclusive.

Some reflections on the Vatican system. Remembering the Master.

ABSTRACT: In recalling the life and work of prof. Giuseppe Dalla Torre, the author highlights some key areas in which the interests and personal commitment of the late Maestro are most focused. The essay intends to highlight that prof. Dalla Torre, also on the basis of his immense scientific production, was not only a brilliant and highly original scholar of canon law and ecclesiastical law, but he was also a refined constitutionalist, a careful scholar of public law and constitutional law. in relation to the various state systems, as well as in relation to the very unique system of the Vatican City State. The paper makes a specific reflection on some aspects of the current Vatican legal system, to which Dalla Torre has dedicated significant personal energies, especially in recent years. The essay indicates that the Vatican system was not only an important object of study and legal interest on the part of Giuseppe Dalla Torre. But it also represented an important field of action in which he sowed with copious abundance: both as a consultant for various departments of the Apostolic See; both from a jurisprudential point of view, in the years in which he held prestigious positions as a Vatican magistrate and, most recently, as President of the same Court of the Vatican City State; and, again, from the point of view of the care of new generation of jurists - trained through a prestigious School led by himself - with the relevant purpose of providing them with the tools suitable to operate, even at a professional level, within the "walls" Vatican system. It follows that Giuseppe Dalla Torre not only represents an illustrious ecclesiastic and canonist of our times, but also an esteemed legal practitioner, as well as an appreciated "Vatican jurist".

SOMMARIO: 1. “La vita et l’intelletto nostro”: un inedito vaticano - 2. “In questa pratica”: il fascicolo manoscritto - 2.1. Il Barberiniano Latino 1369: struttura e datazione dei sette responsi - 2.2. La questione avanti il Sant’Uffizio: i confini dell’autorità inquisitoriale - 2.2.1. I cinque pareri pro - 2.2.2. I due pareri contra - 3. “Noi vi havemo consumato”: la quaestio del Ghislieri - 3.1. Propositio - 3.2. Oppositio - 3.3. Solutio - 4. Conclusioni - Appendice.

“Noi vi havemo consumato in questa pratica la vita et l’intelletto nostro”: an unpublished opinion by Pius V (1556)

ABSTRACT: Long before being enthroned as Pope with the name of Pius V (1566), Michele Ghislieri worked tirelessy and enthusiastically for the Roman Inquisition under Paul IV and his successors, building and cementing his position within the Roman Curia. In his capacity as commissary of the Holy Office (1556), Ghislieri was requested to express an opinion regarding the relationship of inquisitorial and episcopal jurisdictions in receiving abjurations. This opinion, delivered in the form of a quaestio of the medieval scolastic tradition and published here for the first time, casts new light not only on the intellectual biography of this famous Pope but also, given the fact that he was not the only consultor whose opinion was requested, on the daily work of the Roman tribunal and, in more general terms, on the capital importance of law within the spectrum of Western cultural system in Early Modern age.

SUMARIO: 1. La implementación del m.p. Mitis Iudex - 2. La salus animarum y la reforma de los procesos de nulidad matrimonial - 2.1. La salus animarum, principio inspirador - 2.2. ¿Cómo contribuye a la salus animarum el proceso judicial? - 3. La centralidad del Obispo diocesano.

Challenges presented by the conversion of justice in the Church in the light of m.p. Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus

ABSTRACT: In these pages I will try to show that the motive leading to the reform of the m.p. Mitis Iudex and the recovered centrality of the Bishop judge are questions that should not be limited exclusively to the processes of marriage nullity, since they are so important that they go beyond these procedural limits; on the contrary, they should project their influence not only on the norms that regulate the ordinary processes but also on the very organization of justice in the Church. The conversion of justice that the Roman Pontiff has initiated with the m.p. Mitis Iudex, therefore, involves the rest of the causes and canonical procedural law itself.

Col titolo della presente riflessione assume timbri di sconforto il sentimento di transitorietà e di incompiutezza che al travaglio meditativo dell’Autore ha sempre opposto l’amara constatazione di precarietà che qualsiasi tentativo di riforma della sua Chiesa di appartenenza propone a fronte della superficialità, o dell’inadeguatezza, e/o perfino della disarmante inettitudine degli uomini che vengono, di volta in volta, chiamati a porre in atto un progetto cristiano, perfino serio come quello (recente ormai fino a un certo punto), collocato al centro del “secolo breve”. (segue)

SOMMARIO: 1. Dal climax, al bioma, all’habitat dell’umano - 2. Il bioma panamazzonico e l’ecologia integrale - 3. La Conferenza ecclesiale dell’Amazzonia - 4. Le nuove forme di sinodalità e la Chiesa sacramento universale di salvezza - 5. Il munus petrinum e la presidenza nella carità - 6. La Vicaría Christi vescovile urbi et orbi vocata - 7. Il metodo per “accompagnare” le vicende sinodali: discernimento e gradualità - 8. La Chiesa cattolica fra universale e locale. - 9 . Il poliedro dell’oeconomia/dispensatio Ecclesiae - 10. L’esperienza episcopale panamazzonica pietra miliare dei “cammini sinodali” di tutta la Chiesa.

The exercise of episcopal power and the oecononomia/dispensatio Ecclesiae in Querida Amazonia

ABSTRACT: The essay aims to explain how the Pan-Amazonian synodal experience, because of a particularly compromised and suffering reality - as emerged above all during the current pandemic event -, have pushed the Church to a closer interpenetration of the own universal dimension with the local one and therefore to an exercise of episcopal power more in line with the original oeconomia / dispensatio Ecclesiae.

SOMMARIO: 1. Per una nozione di movimento ecclesiale. Le indicazioni di Giovanni Paolo II rivisitate nel 2016 dalla lettera “Iuvenescit Ecclesia” della Congregazione per la dottrina della fede - 2. Gli orientamenti di papa Francesco nei confronti dei movimenti ecclesiali. Le fonti - 3. Custodire il carisma - 4. Il rischio della autoreferenzialità - 5. Altre possibili deviazioni - 6. Le preoccupazioni di papa Francesco - 7. La missione dei movimenti ecclesiali - 8. Avvertenze conclusive.

«You can be the arms, hands, feet, mind and heart of a Church “which goes forth”». Pope Francis and the ecclesial movements

ABSTRACT: Pope Francis believes that ecclesial movements are a gift of the Spirit for those who participate in them and for the whole Church. But, unlike its immediate predecessors, he deals intensively, in language that is at times severe, with the dangers they may run into. In this regard, however, it should be noted that similar warnings are also made with regard to other ecclesial realities. In any case, it cannot be denied that the current Pontiff looks favourably on the movements, since he entrusts them with very important and demanding tasks in the fulfillment of the Church's mission.

SOMMARIO: 1. Le ascendenze remote di un moderno pasticcio legislativo - 2. (segue) Per una politica della pena opposta a quella del libro VI del CIC - 3. (segue) Inefficacia sanzionatoria voluta, o pseudo-riforma? – 4. Su alcune urgenze contestuali di graduale riforma vera, non simulata.

SOMMARIO: Avvertenza - 1. Sull’irrinunciabile laicità del pensare giuridico - 2. Reformatio ecclesiae e costituzionalismo moderno – 3. Tre innovazioni istituzionali di Paolo VI in via di desuetudine: il sinodo dei Vescovi come forma rafforzata di normazione papale, la riforma del S. Uffizio, la separazione dei poteri.