Contenuti per la categoria: Diritto ecclesiastico

Summary: 1. Introduction - 2. Constitutional project of ecclesiastical politics and cultural resistance to a correct interpretation of the fundamental provisions of freedom - 3. Secularity of the legal system, religious pluralism and human freedoms.

ABSTRACT: The problems that derive from the growing multicultural and multi-religious characterization of our society raise a number of questions regarding the difficulties encountered in identifying rules of coexistence that could be genuinely respectful of the ideal and spiritual dimension of the human person. In particular, it is in question the ability of the system of bilateral agreements between the State and the religious organizations to really enhance the individual religiosity, which is constitutionally protected in its instrumentality for the promotion and growth of the human being. Several doubts also concern the discretionary and political selection, exercised by public authorities, of religious organizations deserving an access to bilateral regulation of relationships. In a more and more plural and heterogeneous social reality, the exclusion from the special legislation of the newly established spiritual groups in the country does not seem to be respectful of a neutral and correct interpretation of the constitutional dictate.

SOMMARIO 1. Considerazioni introduttive - 2. La definizione dottrinale di “reato culturalmente motivato”, e le sue “sotto-categorie” prasseologiche - 3. La giurisprudenza relativa a reati a elevata offensività - 4. La giurisprudenza relativa a reati a bassa offensività - 5. La sentenza Cass. n. 29613 del 2018. - 6. Verso un test culturale come architrave motivazionale? - 7. Considerazioni finali.

Latest News from Jurisprudence on Culturally Motivated Crimes

ABSTRACT:  The author, after having clarified the notion of culturally motivated crime consolidated in doctrine, analyzes the recent Italian jurisprudence on the topic, representing the general coordinates provided by the Court of Cassation to the interpreter in the presence of this type of crimes.

SOMMARIO: 1. Un piccolo volume destinato a uso degli studenti universitari e dei candidati ai concorsi pubblici (carriera direttiva) - 2. Il diritto ecclesiastico negli anni settanta - 3. Sette capitoli, inseriti in due parti e un’Appendice, sulla Natura dei Patti lateranensi.

SOMMARIO: 1. Riordino o riforma del Terzo Settore? - 2. Il contributo che possono offrire gli ecclesiasticisti e i canonisti alla riflessione - 3. La traiettoria: dalla legislazione bilaterale sugli enti cattolici al diritto comune sugli enti religiosi - 4. L’art. 20 Cost.: una lettura rinnovata in una prospettiva sistemica - 5. La legge n. 222 del 1985 rimane apripista della legislazione statale in ottica promozionale e pluralista - 6. Intese dello Stato con le confessioni e collegamento/coincidenza tra le attività di religione o di culto e le attività “diverse” - 7. Superamento “di fatto” della specialità della legislazione bilaterale sugli enti religiosi - 8. Alcune osservazioni critiche sul Codice del Terzo Settore - 9. Un diritto comune sugli enti religiosi nell’ottica dell’interesse generale? - 10. Una nuova mission per gli enti cattolici sollecitata dalla Chiesa di Papa Francesco.

The Third Sector Code: arrival point or starting point for the religious bodies’ palingenesis?

ABSTRACT: Adopted on July 2017, the Third Sector Code promotes social groups to guarantee the constitutional principles of pluralism, participation, social solidarity, substantial equality. The essay analyses what are the most important innovations and the critical issues of Third Sector’s reform, in the law and religion’s perspective and in the canon law’s perspective. Indeed, this legal reform raises fundamental questions, involving Third Sector bodies, that are, at the same time, religious bodies, such as the importance to have in our legal system a general law for religious bodies. Furthermore, Pope Francis’ teaching recalls an ethic dimension in the economic activities for the Catholic bodies.

SOMMARIO: I. Premessa. - 2, 3, 4, 5. Concorrenza del diritto dello Stato e della Chiesa a qualificare i medesimi comportamenti: possibili conflitti. - 6, 7, 8, 9. Valutazione canonistica del problema. Illiceità del matrimonio civile fra cattolici. Questione dei limiti concordatari ai poteri punitivi dei superiori ecclesiastici in Italia. Valutazione della questione sotto il profilo dell’opportunità canonica. - 10, 11, 12, 13. Sua valutazione statualistica. Posizione del diritto della Chiesa rispetto a quello dello Stato. Natura del rapporto fra fedele e superiore ecclesiastico pel nostro ordinamento. Conseguenze. - 14, 15, 16, 17. Delimitazione del jus libertatis Ecclesiae. Limiti funzionali. - 18. Limiti obiettivi. - 19. Conclusione.

1 - Avendo il compito di presentare gli Scritti, debbo provare ad andare oltre l’affetto, oltre la commozione. Anche perché proprio la professoressa Folliero non mi avrebbe certo perdonato smarginamenti.

E allora, desidero anzitutto ringraziarvi, ringraziare questa Università, i Colleghi di questa Università e ringraziare in particolar modo l’ADEC nella persona del Presidente e dei componenti del Direttivo per avere pensato a questo Atto accademico in memoria della professoressa Folliero e avervi incluso, affidandomela, la presentazione degli Scritti a Lei dedicati. Ringrazio Gianni Cimbalo, per la ricostruzione puntuale e avvertita del profilo scientifico della studiosa, il toccante ricordo della persona e per le emozioni che ha rinnovato, credo non soltanto a me.

SOMMARIO: 1. Carcere e religione - 2. Pluralismo religioso e istanze di sicurezza - 3. Strategie di contrasto al proselitismo e alla radicalizzazione jihadista - 4. Gli ‘indicatori sulla radicalizzazione’ - 5. Le questioni aperte: prevenzione e de-radicalizzazione - 6. Cosa fare.

Between religious freedom and security issues: the prevention of jihadist radicalisation in prison

ABSTRACT: Faith constitutes an essential aspect of prison life. Its relevance has been emphasised in recent times because of the religious pluralism that characterises the current prison population. In this scenario, the rise of jihadist terrorism has shed light on the problem of radicalisation in prison, already known and studied by the experts, which poses new challenges for policymakers, prison staff, and detainees. Prison Administration has been focused on religious freedom, its boundaries and its relationship with religious extremism and has already adopted some measures to combat and monitor jihadist proselitism in Italian prisons. This paper provides an overview of these anti-radicalisation strategies in prisons, highlighting unresolved issues. These include the lack of an integrated plan with regards to prevention of radicalisation and de-radicalisation, not limited by the prison context. This paper further highlights the challenges in devising policies that address security concerns without sacrificing religious freedom and diversity, as provided for by the Constitution.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa: la necessaria precedenza della libertà religiosa sulla laicità - 2. Radici etico-religiose del matrimonio, libertà religiosa e origini del matrimonio civile - 3. Il matrimonio civile: tra neutralità e ideologia - 4. Ritorno del fenomeno religioso nell’età della secolarizzazione: ricadute in materia matrimoniale - 5. La restituzione di matrimonio e famiglia alla società civile e alla religione - 6. La (ri)conquista di spazi di “diritto personale” e ritorno alla disciplina religiosa del matrimonio - 7. Diritto alla tutela dell’identità e “princìpi non negoziabili” dello Stato democratico. Conclusioni.

Marriage and family between secularism and religious freedom

Abstract: Given that between secularism and religious freedom there is a relationship of instrumentality of the first compared to the second, in the essay there’s a recall to the ethical-religious roots of the marriage’s legislation, which, starting from the Protestant Reformation and then from the French Revolution has undergone a process of secularization and secularism with the birth of the civil marriage. It is a process that has been motivated (also) by reasons of religious freedom, but which has led, by the State, to the subtraction of the marriage’s subject from the society. Today there is a substantial return from the state to the society of the discipline about the various forms of life and family communions, and this, in a religiously pluralistic society, involves (also) the return of the marriage to the religion.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa: il vilipendio quale “reato d’opinione” - 2. L’evoluzione dei delitti contro il sentimento religioso - 3. (segue): la riforma del 2006 - 4. La sentenza della Corte costituzionale n. 188 del 1975 - 5. L’esercizio del diritto di libera manifestazione del pensiero quale causa di giustificazione (art. 51 c.p.) - 6. Le più recenti applicazioni della giurisprudenza di legittimità - 7. Chiusa.

Are the crimes against religious sentiment compatible with the exercise of freedom of expression?

ABSTRACT: The crimes against religious sentiment, provided by the Italian Criminal Code, are mainly framed as “crimes of opinion”. Therefore, it should be ascertained whether and how those crimes are compatible with the exercise of freedom of expression, guaranteed as a fundamental right by Art. 21 of the Italian Constitution. The paper provides an overview of the jurisprudence – of ordinary courts and the Constitutional Court – and of the legislative evolution since 1930s about the crimes against religious sentiment.

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Disegno costituzionale e rigidità politico-normative: quale strada per una equilibrata disciplina del fenomeno religioso? - 3. Conclusioni.

Equality in diversity. Religious identities and constitutional democracy

ABSTRACT: The entry into force of the new system after the fall of fascism did not constitute the resolutive element to mark a decisive turning point in the Italian ecclesiastical politics, with the implementation of a system of reforms in religious matters consistent with the innovative will of the institutional change that occurred in the Country. The consequence is that, seventy years after the adoption of the Republican Constitutional Charter, many normative provisions still conform to the inspiring principles of the fascist system, and there are many impediments to the concrete realization of the principles of freedom and democracy, with serious damage for the enjoyment of constitutional guarantees by spiritual minorities. With the approval of a general legislation on religious interests, the equal enjoyment of the fundamental rights could be achieved, both for individuals and for groups, within a framework of definitive overcoming of the fascist penalizing legislation and of fixation of the regulatory law criteria of the various treatments to protect spiritual specificities.