Contenuti per la categoria: Canon law

SUMMARY: 1. General framework of the applicability of Italian legislation within the Vatican City State - 2. The right to privacy under European and canon law - 3. Applicability and enforceability of the Italian Data Protection Code within the Vatican City State.

ABSTRACT: In the Vatican City State no specific laws have been adopted either by the Supreme Pontiff, the Pontifical Commission, or other legitimate Vatican City State authorities in relation to the fundamental right to privacy of natural and legal persons. Canon 220 of the Code of Canon Law refers to the protection of a good reputation and of intimitas, but does not provide for specific or self-contained rules related to personal data protection; it contains only general principles that can (and should) be articulated in more specific regulations. Therefore, it seems feasible that the provisions of the Italian Data Protection Code concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the telecommunications sector - as well as any other provision concerning the sector of telecommunications and relevant services, both of landline and mobile networks, in their entirety - should be automatically applicable within the Vatican City State, pursuant to Article 12.1.a.5 of Law no. LXXI on the sources of law of the Vatican City State.

SOMMARIO: 1. Il significato dell’espressione – 2. Il rifiuto del compromesso – 3. La distinzione fra principi e valori.

ABSTRACT: The expression “not negotiable principles”, related for the Catholic Church to categorys of the natural right, induces to reflect about the meaning which the refusal of mediation and the difference between principles and valours have in a democratic system.
 

SOMMARIO: 1. Economia e religione - 2. L’etica protestante e lo spirito del capitalismo - 3. L’etica cattolica e il capitalismo - 4. Il capitalismo buono e l’umanizzazione dell’economia - 5. Il capitalismo cattivo - 6. La riflessione di Luigi Sturzo.Brevi cenni.

ABSTRACT: The Encyclical Caritas in veritate, promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI in June 29th, 2009, omits faithfull the term capitalism, also used in the social doctrine of the Church by Pope Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum untill Centesimus Annus of John Paul II. Analysing the Encyclical and because of this omission, in the teaching of Pope Ratzinger may be felt appreciation for the market economy, different from the capitalist economy. This distinction had already made and proposed in the last century by Luigi Sturzo, sociologist and Catholic thinker, enlightened and free.
 

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. La struttura essenziale del concetto di legalità e la sua realizzazione radicale nel diritto della Chiesa. - 3. L’idea di legalità come “regola che sta prima” nel ius commune e la sua coesistenza con un approccio empirico, essenzialmente giurisprudenziale e dottrinale, di costruzione del diritto. Il principio di legalità come metodo di produzione del diritto nel pensiero giuridico moderno - 4. Il legame storico-concettuale fra il principio di legalità e i Codici moderni - 5. Il Codex iuris canonici del 1917 e il principio di legalità come metodo di costruzione del ius ecclesiae in funzione della certezza del diritto - 6. (segue) Ulteriori riflessi della prima codificazione canonica sul principio di legalità.:

SOMMARIO: 1. Cattolici e appartenenza religiosa - 2. Cattolici e politica - 3. Il cattolicesimo democratico – 4. Cattolici e libertà di coscienza – 5. Amare le contraddizioni.

ABSTRACT: The reality of the Italian Catholicism presents itself contradictory about religious belonging, relation between faith and policy, relation between faith and culture. The object of the work is to reconstruct the essential elements of this question and to verify the compatibilities of some positions of the progressist Catholicism as regards present orientations of the ecclesiastic authority.
 

SOMMARIO: 1. Oggetto di queste considerazioni. – 2. La natura di mero sostegno logistico da parte del Tribunale Apostolico della Rota Romana rispetto all’“Ufficio Amministrativo presso la Rota Romana” (UARR) e l’affidamento “ope legis” della sua presidenza al Decano della Rota. – 3. Gli organi trasferiti dalla Congregazione per il Culto Divino e la Disciplina dei Sacramenti (CCDDS) all’UARR. – 4. La competenza e la procedura dell’UARR per la dispensa “super quolibet matrimonio non consummato”: 4.1. La prevalenza dell’inconsumazione sulla natura sacramentale del matrimonio oggetto della dispensa come criterio della competenza materiale dell’UARR: la discrasia fra la terminologia “super rato” e la competenza sul matrimonio non consumato e non rato; 4.2. La natura sussidiaria dello scioglimento nei confronti della nullità del matrimonio e la competenza del Tribunale Apostolico della Rota Romana nella dispensa “super matrimonio non consummato”; 4.3. La procedura “super matrimonio non consummato” da parte dell’UARR: la natura graziosa e la tutela del diritto al rispetto della normativa stabilita; 4.4. Le condizioni per la validità della dispensa e la necessità della certezza morale. – 5. Le residue competenze procedurali della CCDDS in materia matrimoniale, fra cui le cause di separazione dei coniugi (retractatio). – 6. La doppia natura, giudiziale e amministrativa, della procedura per la dichiarazione della nullità della sacra ordinazione. L’Ufficio “amministrativo” presso la Rota Romana ha potestà giudiziale? La competenza della Congregazione per le Chiese Orientali e quella del Tribunale Apostolico della Rota Romana (aliae retractationes). – 7. Il “pellegrinaggio” dicasteriale della dispensa dagli obblighi clericali, in particolare da quello del celibato.

The Motu proprio “Quaerit semper” on the dispensation from unconsummated marriages and causes of nullity of ordination

The Motu proprio Quaerit semper (QS) has created an “Administrative Office at the Roman Rota” (UARR) enjoying a notable autonomy from the Apostolic Tribunal. In fact they are two different entities of which the second by law has the dean of the Rota as its moderator. The rest of the personnel is autonomous although the UARR uses the offices of the Rota. QS has abrogated articles 67-68 of the Apostolic Constitution Pastor bonus by putting their content into two new paragraphs added to the following art. 126. In this fashion the competence of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (CCDDS) for unconsummated marriages, even non-sacramental ones, and for the nullity of ordination has been transferred to UARR. Nonetheless, the CCDDS still retains competence for different marriage procedures: the separation of the spouses, presumption of the death, etc. The author proposes that the dissolution of unconsummated marriages should be subsidiary to the declaration of the nullity of marriage, as is the case at the Roman Rota.
 

SOMMARIO: 1. Una tematica che ha suscitato interesse- 2. Novità formali e sostanziali dell’attività concordataria di Giovanni Paolo II - 3. Ragioni storiche di un fenomeno in espansione - 4. Un Papa giurista o un Papa pastore? - 5. Alcune considerazioni finali.

SOMMARIO: 1. Trasformazioni economiche e dinamiche sociali − 2. Centralità della persona umana nella dottrina sociale cattolica − 3. Luci ed ombre del sistema economico contemporaneo − 4. Esigenze di regolamentazione dei mercati internazionali − 5. Il primato del “bene comune” sugli interessi particolari.

Size "public" of the papal magisterium: fragments of social teaching on the world economy

ABSTRACT: The Catholic Church for several years devoted particular attention to the economic processes of the world, drawing on ideas that enrich the overall picture of its "social doctrine". In this case, the papal teaching proved to be quite sensitive to the phenomena of globalization that are investing also global economic system. This paper intends to analyze some key points of the papal reflection on the subject, highlighting the relevance "public", which is gradually to assume the contribution of Catholic social teaching around the overall dynamics of the global economy.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. I primi statuti della Cei - 3. Lo statuto del 1965 e l’attuazione delle disposizioni conciliari - 4. Responsabilità ed autonomia della Cei del post-Concilio: gli statuti del 1971 e del 1977 - 5. La Cei interlocutore ecclesiale dell’autorità civile - 6. Attualità e prospettive tra fine e inizio millennio. Gli statuti del 1998 e del 2000.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. S. Agostino - 3. S. Tommaso d’Aquino - 4. Francisco de Vitoria - 5. Francisco Suarez - 6. Problemi attuali.

ABSTRACT: At the present time, the complexity of international relations make us to reflect on ideologies that in past centuries, opening the modern history, helped to organize the international life and the relations between peoples and between States. Especially Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf and Emmer de Vattel are to be regarded as founders of modern international law, but it would be a serious shortcoming for the scholar the oversight of the work of some spanish theologians and jurists, such as the dominican Francisco de Vitoria and the jesuit Francisco Suarez which, starting from the 16th century, have developed principles that are fundamental results in international law. The universal character of the christian message has had many applications in the social and legal sphere, requires that the human race constitutes one family and that the spirit of christianity is directed toward each institution aimed to prevent disputes between States and between the peoples become violent clashes, destruction or massacres. In ancient period the most important contributions that have enriched the catholic doctrine as well as its teaching in these matters were those of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. In augustinian and thomistic doctrine the war must be regarded as a last resort to which it is not used that after having verified the impossibility to safeguard the good right; again, that the legitimate end of the war is not the victory, but the peace in justice, namely that is the restoration lasting public order in which everything is repositioned in the right place. The affirmative answer to the question if you can give a just war is the key element that is remained a fundamental basis in catholic morality. The war can be considered lawful under certain conditions; but it is nevertheless a profound injustice, as a result of the sins of humanity against the virtue of charity. An important part of the teaching of the spanish theologian Francisco de Vitoria, was especially concerned by the problems created in Spain by the conquest and colonization of Latin America. He was considered the true founder of international law from many specialists. He put in question the conviction then widespread that indigenous not enjoyed human rights, i.e. rights brought from civilization. The dominican theologian rejected these views because he was inspired by the natural law, which must regardless of profession of the true religion which regards the guidelines toward the personal spiritual salvation. Reflecting on the thought of the spanish jesuit Suarez, we are devoting, in particular, our attention to the “jus gentium”. The expression is not related to the international relations between peoples and between nations, what happened in the evolution that subsequently took the expression. Originally the expression jus gentium was referring to some of the rules common to all peoples; in some way a natural right, which led to consider the community of nations as forming a great social community, governed by a set of rules, principles, morals, rights, and duties, according to the needs or opportunities or indications of human nature that is the work of a single Creator. This concept has opened the way to the idea of international law understood as complex rules in relations between nations. In the contemporary era the concept of just war must be considered in a different way and must take account of two considerable elements: the lawfulness of the just war should be read today in harmony and with the observance of an “jus cogens” which goes beyond the respect for the territorial integrity and political independence of a State and then the use in war of deadly weapons, even for the civilian population, which upset the reflection on just cause for a war. We believe that this has fostered a rethinking of catholic doctrine and the positions of the Pope John Paul II who undertook very on the theme of peace and war: he had shown himself absolutely contrary to the war and, again, he seemed to want to overcome the doctrine of the just war. There are those who in the catholic world believes that today it is no longer possible to speak of just war and that the war can no longer be regarded as a means of resolving disputes between States. But before humanity some questions remain.