Contenuti per la categoria: Canon law

SOMMARIO: 1. Premesse e linee di ricerca - 2. Un peculiare osservatorio: i manuali giuridici italiani e lo studio del diritto vaticano - 3. I manuali di diritto ecclesiastico - 4. I manuali di diritto canonico - 5. I manuali di diritto internazionale - 6. Monografie e saggi giusvaticanisti. La fioritura di studi (1929-1939) - 7. Giuristi ebrei e diritto vaticano: Federico Cammeo; Donato Donati e Mario Falco - 8. Gli altri Maestri e il diritto vaticano - 9. Il diritto vaticano tra oblio e studi elitari (1940-1999) - 10. Dal 2000 a oggi: la rinascita del diritto vaticano - 11. Il diritto vaticano nel quadro delle scienze giuridiche - 12. L’autonomia scientifica del diritto vaticano - 13. Autonomia didattica e insegnamento del diritto vaticano nelle università - 14. Verso un’autonomia scientifica e didattica del diritto vaticano, oltre il diritto ecclesiastico?

Italian legal science and Vatican City State (1929-2019). Some reflections on Vatican law and his scientific and didactic autonomy

ABSTRACT: This paper aims to clarify the history of the Vatican City State through the works of Italian jurists. A special attention is given to the scientific and didactic autonomy of Vatican law.

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Il fondamento dell’esclusione del bonum prolis - 3. Lo ius ad actus coniugales - 4. La distinzione tra ius ed exercitium iuris - 5. Le tradizionali presunzioni giurisprudenziali - 6. La procreazione responsabile e alcuni casi particolari - 7. L’esclusione della prole nelle ipotesi di ricorso alla fecondazione artificiale - 8. Questioni relative alla prova - 9 Conclusione.

The exclusion of bonum prolis in the latest rotal jurisprudence

ABSTRACT: After having clarified the basis of the exclusion of bonum prolis and delineated the nature and content of the right/duty to marital acts suitable for procreation, the article explains the classic distinction between law and the exercise of the law, and on the presumptions elaborated in this matter by rotal jurisprudence. This is followed by an examination, conducted in the light of the doctrine of responsible procreation, of some peculiar cases of exclusion and use of artificial insemination; finally, the article focuses on the proofs needed. This research is based on recent unpublished rotal jurisprudence.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa d’inquadramento: la ‘centralità’ derivata del Vicario giudiziale - 2. La revisione della fase introduttiva e impugnatoria (con minimi riferimenti statistici) - 3. L’individuazione soggettiva della figura - 4. Un riscontro sintetico alla luce dell’art. 46 DC. - 5. Il discernimento e l’orientamento della forma processuale adeguata - 6. Le spettanze del Vicario giudiziale nei diversi tipi di processo - 7. Le competenze del Vicario giudiziale nel processo ordinario - 8. Le competenze del Vicario giudiziale nel processo più breve davanti al Vescovo - 9. Le competenze del Vicario giudiziale nel processo documentale - 10. La motivazione dei provvedimenti e i possibili ricorsi - 11. Le difficoltà operative e le problematiche aperte.

The extension of the procedural role of the Judicial Vicar in the “system” of the Mitis iudex

ABSTRACT: In the MIDI system, the centrality of the Bishop is also associated with the strengthening of the role of the Judicial Vicar, especially in the introductory and executive phase. This contribution examines first of all the identification of the minister and the possible extension of the introductory powers to the Assistant Judicial Vicars, and then dwells on the function of discernment and orientation of the procedural form. The duties relating to each procedural mode (ordinary, abbreviated and documentary) are then specifically and analytically outlined. The analysis ends with possible appeals against the initial measures and the determination of the attributions between the interdiocesan and diocesan Judicial Vicar, especially with reference to the processus brevior. The training and responsibility of the Judicial Vicar is crucial to ensure the proper implementation of the reform.

SOMMARIO: 1. Considerazioni introduttive - 2. La provenienza dei magistrati dall’Università - 3. La conoscenza del diritto canonico - 4. La nomina pontificia - 5. La stabilità delle funzioni - 6. La provenienza nazionale - 7. Annotazioni conclusive.

The independence of the Vatican justice. Notes on the magistrates of the Court

ABSTRACT: Among the judicial organs of the Vatican City State, the Court is the one that has undergone the greatest transformations and the most consistent processes of adaptation to the emerging needs in the juridical experience. The essay illustrates the methods through which the objective was pursued to ensure the independence of the magistrates in charge: at the same time a necessary requirement for the right process and a good thing to protect in a particular way considering the peculiar state reality.

SOMMARIO: 1. La convocazione - 2. Le ragioni della convocazione - 3. La qualificazione del sinodo come “minore” - 4. Il tema del sinodo - 5. La commissione di coordinamento - 6. Il documento preparatorio - 7. Lo strumento di lavoro per i consigli diocesani - 8. I sinodali - 9. Le costituzioni -10. Valutazioni critiche.

"Chiesa dalle genti", the minor synod of the diocese of Milan. Profiles of Canon law

ABSTRACXT: In order to ensure a better pastoral care of foreigners the new archbishop of Milan has convened a minor synod. This form of ecclesial assembly is not contemplated by the Code of Canon Law, but has been practiced for centuries in the Ambrosian diocese. The archbishop renewed this tradition by inviting the diocesan presbyteral and pastoral councils to participate at the event. The decisions taken have had a significant impact on the life of the entire diocese, also as regards the territorial organization and the structure of the offices of the archiepiscopal curia. Overall, the synod can be considered exemplary in composition, procedure and efficiency, and hopefully will be imitated by other dioceses.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Natura del documento - 3. I destinatari della CO - 4. L’autonomia giuridica dei monasteri - 5. L’obbligo di aderire a una federazione - 6. La formazione comune obbligatoria - 7. Il rilassamento della clausura - 8. Qual è la mens legislatoris?

An Analysis of the Instruction Cor Orans on Women's Contemplative Life: Challenges and Perspectives

ABSTRACT: This article is a commentary of Cor Orans, the Implementing Instruction of the Apostolic Constitution “Vultum Dei Quaerere” on Women’s Contemplative Life, published in 2018 by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. This Instruction has the character of a real pontifical law, in many aspects disrupting the law which hitherto governed enclosed nuns. By constraining every Monastery to be part of a federation, which although presented as a communion structure, in fact resembles a genuine structure of government, the Instruction harms the autonomy of Monasteries. This mandatory federal setup goes hand in hand with a slackening of the enclosure, and will give rise to a decrease in religious observance. The article further proceeds to outline the mens legislatoris, found between the pursuit of communion and shortage management, and underlines the reductive and materialistic view of contemplative life exhibited by the document. Finally, the article underlines the determination with which the Dicastery intends to apply the new norms, a determination which shows little consideration for the principle of legality.

SOMMARIO: 1. La riforma di Pietro il Grande e la paralisi della Chiesa - 2. La diffusa aspirazione a ridefinire i rapporti tra Stato e Chiesa - 3. Verso il superamento dell’intolleranza religiosa - 4. Le prese di posizione di Antonij (Vadkovskij) e di Sergej Witte - 5. La reazione del Pobedonoscev – 6. Il Memorandum dei 32 - 7. Il riconoscimento della tolleranza religiosa - 8. I vescovi e la riforma ecclesiastica - 9. Il Manifesto del 17 ottobre e i ritardi nella convocazione del Concilio.

The Russian Orthodox Church at the Beginning of the 20th Century

ABSTRACT: Peter the Great abolished the Patriarchate and entrusted the direction of the Church to a Holy Synod led by a laymen (Ober-prokuror). This reform had the consequence to paralyze the Church, as pointed out by F.M. Dostoevskij and by several outstanding Russian scholars. At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century the necessity to overcome the relationship of subjection of the Church to the State was clearly perceived both by the intellectuals and inside the Church. The Tsar himself realized that there was a need of a change: the Fundamental laws were consequently modified and religious tolerance was acknowledged on April 17th 1905. Of paramount importance was the role played by the Prime-minister Sergej Witte and by the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg Antonij (Vadkovskij) to overcome the conservative ecclesiastical policy carried out by the Ober-prokuror Konstantin Pobedonoscev. The answers given by the bishops to a questionnaire issued by the Holy Synod on July 27th, 1905, confirmed that the problem was clearly felt also inside the Church. The Council of the Russian Church, which was supposed to be gathered at the beginning of the century, was summoned several years later, at the eve of the bolshevik coup d’état.

SSOMMARIO: 1. La riforma del processo matrimoniale nel solco del cammino sinodale della Chiesa … - 2. … e nel segno della Tradizione. Interpretazione sistematica della nuova normativa e principio dell’indissolubilità del matrimonio - 3. Le radici storiche del processus brevior: la “Episcopalis audientia” - 4. La “parabola” della “Episcopalis audientia”: contenuto e disciplina - 5. La “centralità” del Vescovo oggi come ieri - 6. La doppia sentenza conforme nell’ordinamento canonico … - 7 … e la sua evoluzione storico-giuridica: dalle origini fino al XX secolo - 8. La doppia sentenza conforme nelle Codificazioni del XX secolo - 9. La celerità dei giudizi e la pastorale della famiglia al centro della Riforma di Papa Francesco - 10. “Innovare nella tradizione: sfida e compito del canonista”.

Procedural novelties regarding marriage nullity and canonical jurisdiction

ABSTRACT: The purpose of the essay is to investigate the changes made to the discipline of the canonical process of marriage nullity by the Motu Proprio “Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus”, in an attempt to verify whether the reform - which, as we know, has foreseen, among the other novelties, a shorter trial before the Bishop, and the elimination of the double sentence in conformity - both in line with the imprint proper to the canonical jurisdiction. In this perspective, the study will be dedicated to the historical reconstruction of the Processus brevior coram Episcopo and of the institute of the c.d. double sentence in conformity, at the end of which it seems possible to point out that the devolution to the Bishop of a shorter judgment - and the consequent reduction of the procedural forms - should not have undermined the cardinal principles of canonical jurisdiction.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. L'art. 60 del Decreto generale sul matrimonio canonico della CEI e l’obbligo di delibare - 3. La fase dell’indagine pregiudiziale e quella introduttiva - 4. La fase istruttoria e quella discussoria - 5. La fase decisoria - 5.1. Della redazione della sentenza - 5.2. Dell’interferenza delle questioni patrimoniali - 6. Conclusioni.

Reflections on marriage nullity proceedings in the context of the Italian exequatur procedure

ABSTRACT: The obligation to request the exequatur of the ecclesiastical sentence of marriage nullity, foreseen by the art. 60 of the General decree on the canonical matrimony of the CEI, constitutes in Italy a legal duty for the faithful who determines, for judges and lawyers, a corresponding moral duty (but which for lawyers can also become legal, under the professional mandate) of collaboration, during the various prejudicial and judicial phases of the canonical proceedings, in acquiring and making available all the useful elements in view of a exequatur procedure.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Lo stato dell’arte - 3. Enti ecclesiastici e Ets - 4. Enti ecclesiastici e libertà d’impresa - 5. Coerenza fra gli obblighi imposti dalla legge italiana e quelli previsti dal diritto canonico - 6. La scelta di adeguarsi alle norme italiane. I singoli adempimenti necessari. a) il regolamento - b) il patrimonio destinato - c) le scritture contabili.

Canon property law issues. Some thoughts around the obligations arising from the new Italian Third Sector law

ABSTRACT: The new Italian law in the field of the Third Sector provides for some burden on civilly recognized religious bodies, among which there are also Catholic ecclesiastical bodies. This paper deals with the canonical consequences of these obligations related to the general principles of Church law, as they are stated in the Code of Canon Law and the particular Italian canon law. The fulfillment of these government obligations is obviously not mandatory, however in many cases it may be timely, especially for institutions that already enjoy tax benefits that they could lose if they did not comply with the deadlines established by this new Italian law. Nevertheless, the central question is to verify whether certain obligations are lawful according to the Canon law. The essay raises the question of the provision of an “earmarked stock” and “internal rules” additional to their canonical Statutes, and especially the canonic assessment of commercial activities. If it is true that one has the right to do anything, but not everything is beneficial or constructive, catholic religious bodies should mind some questions before deciding to follow this law.