Contenuti per la categoria: Diritto ecclesiastico (Teoria generale del)

The protection of human life “at sunset”, between law and freedom of conscience

ABSTRACT: The paper proposes to suggest to the Italian legislator, which must further intervene on the matter of the end of life, and has also been solicited by the Constitutional Court, some methods that can allow a synthesis between the different conflicting ethical and political positions that animate the debate on life and human dignity. It is considered appropriate that the law does not favor the ad libitum exercise of the freedom of self-determination in end-of-life choices, and that the most suitable category for orienting the balance between equality and freedom of self-determination according to dignity must be solidarity, which makes a person that is all the more alive and human the more he is inserted into a civil and supportive society.

SOMMARIO: 1. Il biodiritto tra posizioni etiche e politiche contrastanti - 2. Il consenso-informato e le disposizioni anticipate di trattamento - 3. Il suicidio assistito: un eccessivo diritto giurisprudenziale? - 4. La sterile contrapposizione tra autodeterminazione solipsistica e solidarietà sociale - 5. Le cure palliative - 6. La laicità procedurale nella giuridificazione delle scelte di fine-vita - 7. L’esperienza del diritto ecclesiastico a servizio del biodiritto.

Fifty years after the conference in which Law and Religion Scholars held a dialogue with Constitutional Scholars in Siena, central issues of that discussion are recalled, and those of a future debate are envisaged, with the hope that both disciplines might benefit from it

The “Church Mission” in the Concordats after the Vatican Council II

ABSTRACT: The Concordat Policy of the Holy Seat went through an unexpected development after the Vatican Council II. The agreements subscribed over the last decades have indeed engaged with lots of European Countries, and the range expanded to the African and Asia continent. The new geography designed to this agreements also matches with innovations in the structure and content of them. This essay aims to analyze this innovation and its strict connection with the documents of the Vatican Council II, enlightening how this has determined a more theological view of the objectives through which the freedom of the Catholic Church defines and details itself. While the concordats of the first half of the past century accompanied, followed and enlarged the trajectory of the Church rights towards spiritualization, this new phase is, indeed, characterized by a theological placement of the interests, whose freedom is indeed the object of the protections granted by the Concordats, which are briefly expressed by the lemma “Church Mission”, found in the first articles of the Concordats. This lemma, in the conciliar texts, is characterized not only by a theological dimension, but also by its direct connection with religious freedom.

Sommario: 1. Una premessa - 2. I precedenti e il contesto dottrinale - 3. I documenti conciliari - 4. La “missione della chiesa” negli accordi concordatari tra XX° e XXI° secolo - 5. Per qualche annotazione conclusiva.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa: la laicità giuridica - 2. L’enunciazione - 3. La definizione - 4. La riscrittura.

Abstract: In his brilliant work on «La laicità penale alla sfida del "secolo delle paure"» Carlo Enrico Paliero highlighted the distance between positive legal systems and a supposed (ideal-typical) archetype of 'laicità', of which the single legal system represents a "mestizo" model. The iconic image restores the complexity of any definitional challenge on 'laicità'. Law, unfolding as a practical science, has gradually managed to circumvent the obstacle through a process of empirical signification, derived, at times, from concrete needs. Therefore, it would be improper, if not arbitrary, to attempt to offer a contribution on legal 'laicità' in disregard of the events that have characterized its absence from the text of the Charter and the demands of ordinal self-protection that have determined, instead, the subsequent 'unveiling' or 'creation' of the unexpressed principle.

SOMMARIO: 1. Dalla bioetica alla biogiuridica. - 2. Etica e diritto. - 3. Profili di diritto ecclesiastico nella dimensione bioetica. - 4. Questioni bioetiche e valori costituzionali.

Juridical horizons of the bioethical dimension

Abstract: In his broad cultural, legal and academic experience, Giuseppe Dalla Torre has also dealt with issues relating to bioethics and biolaw. His thought contribution on the subject has proved to be of great scientific importance both because from a temporal point of view he was one of the first Italian jurists to take an interest in bioethics; and because he has indicated criteria and solutions that have profoundly crossed the dynamics characterizing the debate and studies of the bioethical phenomenon in Italy. The paper intends to testify to the continuing relevance of the fundamental contents of his teaching in the bioethical sector, highlighting that they have accompanied the evolution of Italian biolaw from the very first steps.

Juridical horizons of the bioethical dimension

ABSTRACT: In his broad cultural, legal and academic experience, Giuseppe Dalla Torre has also dealt with issues relating to bioethics and biolaw. His thought contribution on the subject has proved to be of great scientific importance both because from a temporal point of view he was one of the first Italian jurists to take an interest in bioethics; and because he has indicated criteria and solutions that have profoundly crossed the dynamics characterizing the debate and studies of the bioethical phenomenon in Italy. The paper intends to testify to the continuing relevance of the fundamental contents of his teaching in the bioethical sector, highlighting that they have accompanied the evolution of Italian biolaw from the very first steps.

Papers presented at the panel "The spatial ramifications of religion: new and traditional legal challenges " held at the Annual Conference 2022 of EuARe (European Academy of Religion), which took place in Bologna from 20^th to 23^rd June 2022 and was organised by FSCIRE.

1 - Questo incontro mi offre l’opportunità di esprimere qui oggi, anche in qualità di allieva più anziana di una scuola nutrita, il profondo e sincero compiacimento per aver goduto della fortuna di poter attingere ininterrottamente, ormai da più di quarant'anni, a una sorgente tanto preziosa di conoscenza e di riflessione scientifica.

Proverò a sfruttare l’occasione di una coincidenza temporale del tutto casuale per evidenziare, in sintesi, uno dei principali meriti che sono stati nel tempo e sono ancora riconosciuti da più parti al professore Salvatore Berlingò e agli scritti raccolti nel volume di cui discutiamo.

SOMMARIO - 1. L’ente ecclesiastico: una figura soggettiva complessa - 2. Il diritto speciale nella disciplina dell’ente ecclesiastico - 3. La specialità derivante dal carattere bilaterale della normativa sugli enti: il caso emblematico della responsabilità amministrativa derivante da reato - 4. L’espansione del diritto comune nella disciplina dell’ente ecclesiastico - 5. La specialità di regime degli enti ecclesiastici nell’evoluzione dell’ordinamento - 6. Diritto speciale e diritto comune nella riforma del Terzo settore.

 Ecclesiastical bodies between special rules and general law

ABSTRACT: This contribution examines the relationship between special law rules of a treaty nature and general law in the Italian discipline of civilly recognized ecclesiastical bodies, in particular those of the Catholic Church, which still represents most part of these entities. This aspect is examined with respect to the latest regulatory evolution, in particular the reform of the Third sector, which tends to confirm the duplicity of regime of ecclesiastical bodies. It also highlights the growing attention and protection of the normative peculiarities of this category of legal entities by the State legislator.