Contenuti per la categoria: Canon law

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.

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. Economia, finanza e religione: le ragioni di un indefettibile rapporto - 2. Il diritto nativo della Chiesa Cattolica di esprimere il proprio giudizio sulle questioni sociali nel campo economico e finanziario - 3. La rilevanza del settimo comandamento nel contesto delle attività finanziarie - 4. La funzione di deterrenza delle sanzioni canoniche in ambito economico e finanziario e la possibile applicazione del can. 1399 c.j.c. - 5. L’impatto dei precetti religiosi nel mercato finanziario: i riflessi sui sistemi.

Sommario : 1. Autonomia confessionale e sovranità dello Stato: la distinzione tra ordini “distinti” – 2. Il principio di laicità e la valorizzazione delle differenze, nell’inderogabile esigenza di salvaguardia dei diritti della persona – 3. Tutela della salute: diritto fondamentale della Costituzione italiana – 4. La dimensione ascetica dell’individuo nella concezione giuridica del bene salute – 5. La salute nell’ordinamento canonico: connotazione di un bene con valore relativo – 6. La realizzazione “responsabile” della salute e la sua intrinseca connessione con la salvezza nella Chiesa – 7. La sana cooperatio tra Stato e Chiesa nella tutela della salute del civis-fidelis – 8. Conclusioni.

Health of the civis-fidelis in the different systems of the Italian State and the Catholic Church. The spiritual needs of the individual as included in th e meaning of health

ABSTRACT: The meaning of "health" in a legal system depends upon its culture and social development, so that time and space influence the way protection is offered. Nowadays the idea of “health” has enlarged. In the past the meaning of health was intended as a mental-physical well-being; it has now gradually developed to a larger meaning, including a complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease. Along with Italian constitution, Italy has to pursue and protect the health of any individual, not just citizens. Health is also protected by the Church as a precious gift given by God to man and is closely linked with salvation. Man is called to protect the value of this gift in its widest configuration. Therefore the integral protection of health requires to take into account all the dimensions of the individual, both as civis and fidelis. In order to reach this target it is necessary an open dialogue between civil authorities and religious institution; its importance relies on the primacy of the individual and includes the care of his dignity and the respect of his rights, in mutual respect for the autonomy of the two orders, whose relations are to be seen as a single track and a vital bulwark, a vision inspired by the liberal-democratic system.

SOMMARIO: 1. La svolta conciliare e l’aggiornamento degli ordini dei Dicasteri della Curia Romana: la comparsa dei Consilia quali enti precipuamente consultivi e marginalmente giurisdizionali – 2. Le attribuzioni del Dicastero de Legum Textibus : una potenziale ‘anomalia’ nell’ordine dei Pontifici Consigli? – 3. L’‘eclissi’ parziale del munus interpretandi e la tripartizione funzionale individuata da Papa Benedetto XVI. Il Pontificio Consiglio per i Testi Legislativi quale promotore, garante e interprete dell’ unitas disciplinae – 4. La revisio Curiae avviata da Papa Francesco. Brevi considerazioni alla luce di un’imminente riforma della cost. ap. Pastor Bonus – 5. Il possibile riposizionamento del Pontificio Consiglio per i Testi Legislativi nell’ordine dicasteriale degli Officia – 6. La ridefinizione delle competenze dell’ Officium (o Secreteria ) pro Legum Textibus . Alcune proposte, de iure condendo , di modificazione e di integrazione della legislazione vigente – a) Norma introduttiva – b) Funzioni di garanzia – c) Funzioni di interpretazione – d) Funzioni promozionali e di studio – e) Funzione consultiva – 7. Conclusione.

The Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts in the institutional framework of the Roman Curia between existing law and prospects of reform

ABSTRACT: The reforms of the Roman Curia that followed the Second Vatican Council have established the institution of a new category of Dicasteries that help the Roman Pontiff in governing of the universal Church, that is, the Pontifical Councils. They are characterized to exercise functions mainly promotional, using only marginally the potestas regiminis . This contribution shows that there is an ‘anomaly’ between the Pontifical Councils, represented by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts. In fact, it is a Dicastery which exercises especially the functions of government, partially described in articles 154-158 of the apostolic constitution Pastor Bonus promulgated by Pope John Paul II on 28 June 1988. In light of the reform process of such constitution initiated by Pope Francis, the present work offers to place the Council in the category of the Offices of the Roman Curia and drafts the rules that would illustrate the competences of the new Officium (or Secreteria ) pro Legum Textibus .

SOMMARIO: 1. Peccato e libertà - 2. Distinzione e contiguità tra foro interno e foro esterno: responsabilità morale e giuridica nel diritto canonico - 3. La teoria dell'actus humanus e la centralità ineludibile della responsabilità personale - 4. Il diritto canonico come ordinamento giuspubblico e la composizione armonica tra responsabilità attiva e passiva: qualche riflesso peculiare nella sfera privatistica - 5. La responsabilità nel diritto penale canonico - 6. Derivazione del potere e responsabilità nello ius Ecclesiae - 7. Responsabilità e collegialità - 8. Il dislocarsi atopico delle decisionalità e l’obsolescenza del principio di responsabilità.

SOMMARIO: 1. Il patto coniugale tra diritto naturale e natura sacramentale. Tradizione o innovazione giuridica? – 2. Favor matrimonii e interpretazione restrittiva degli impedimenti: le conferme codicistiche – 3. La non indifferenza alla visione solidaristica del matrimonio in facto esse : l’Esortazione apostolica Familiaris Consortio – 4. Argomentazioni a sostegno di CCE , 1603. Rilievi conclusivi in merito all’impostazione del Catechismo della Chiesa cattolica.

Theological and Juridical Aspects in Current Canon Law’s Perspectives on Marriage. Some Elements

ABSTRACT: The aim of this essay is to consider how Catholic perspective can underline social and ethical elements in matrimonial canon law. This kind of approach has known many historical phases, but current Christian views on marriage, in a Canon Law’s point of view at least from Codex Iuris Canonici to Pope Francis’s public speeches, strongly assert a more balanced relevance of this typically juridical issue.

SOMMARIO: 1. Le peculiarità del diritto di famiglia e le connesse esigenze deontologiche - 2. Le indicazioni contenute nel nuovo Codice deontologico forense - 3. Le norme deontologiche nell’ordinamento canonico.

SOMMARIO : 1. L’Eucarestia: “augusto” strumento per la salute dei christifideles nell’economia della salvezza - 2. La transustanziazione - 3. La malattia celiaca e l’unico rimedio terapeutico: la dieta gluten free - 4. Il christifidelis affetto dalla sprue celiaca tra dieta gluten free e pane mere triticeus - 5. Prime disposizioni sul divieto dell’uso di ostie quibus glutinum ablatum est - 6. La particola con “una minima quantità di glutine” - 7. Le vigenti prescrizioni sulla validità della materia eucaristica e l’uso di ostie a basso contenuto di glutine - 8. La normativa sulla comunione dei celiaci tra sospetti e apprezzamenti - 9. Ultime precisazioni sull’uso del pane con poca quantità di glutine - 10. Conclusioni.

The health of the christifidelis celiac between diet gluten free and invalidity of the hosts quibus glutinum ablatum est

ABSTRACT: The communion of celiac has aroused the attention of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for the direct connection between gluten, cause of the disease, and bread mere triticeus, precious element of the Eucharist. The complex matter concerns the impelling urgency to allow the christifidelis celiac to follow a super stricte gluten free diet, necessary way to the protection of his mental and physical health, without expelling him from the eucharistic banquet, indispensable instrument of salvation of his own soul. Therefore, in the saving mission of the Church called to the salus animarum of every man, without discriminating exclusions, direct specific norms are emanated to harmonize the dogmatic demands, connected to the Eucharestic, and the therapeutic needs related to mental and physical health of the faithful with the disease. Such norms have faced the validity of the eucharistic matter sealing the invalidity of the hosts quibus glutinum ablatum est , with a meaningful evolution, during the time. It stays, nevertheless, the suspect of an exhaustive solution of the question that induces to wish new interventions.

ABSTRACT: This article is focused on the review of religious equality and the role of women in some Christian churches since the 70´s. The author examines the incorporation of women into the Holy Orders, priesthood and episcopate, and the challenges and crisis faced by those churches, mostly the Episcopalian, the Anglican and the Lutheran. In some cases such incorporation of women into priesthood and episcopate has provoked conflicts and even schisms in the most conservative communities, like in some branches of the Anglican Church. This article also explores the official position of the Catholic Church authorities, mainly Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, and Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and their documents issued on this matter. At the same time it analyzes the Canon Law legislation restricting to baptized males alone the valid sacred ordination, and its consequences. Specifically the canonical crime of attempted ordination of a woman to Holy Orders, which was introduced by the General Decree promulgated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on 19 December 2007. Pope Benedict XVI decided to include this canonical offense, among the delicta graviora reserved to the competence of the Congregation. Finally the author suggests feasible perspectives and possibilities during the present Papacy of Francis regarding to the access of women to the permanent diaconate.