Contenuti per la categoria: Santa Sede e Curia romana

SOMMARIO: 1. La necessità e l’impellenza di una legislazione - 2. Due lacune da colmare - 3. Un primo draft per un appello alla scienza canonistica - 4. L’intervento del legislatore supremo - 5. La sede apostolica totalmente impedita. Impedimento temporaneo - 5.1. Cause fisiche di ordine esterno - 5.2. Cause di ordine personale: inabilità fisica o psichica provvisoria - 6. Inhabilitas totale, certa e perpetua - 7. Brevissima appendice sulla crux teologica e giuridica sottostante - 8. La rinuncia predisposta dal papa per il caso di sua inhabilitas - 9. Il papa che ha rinunciato - 10. Norme conclusive e postfazione sull’impedimento per ‘causa giuridica’.

A proposal for a law on the entirely impeded Roman See and the Pope’s resignation as a result of the collaboration of canon law scholarship

In the first place, the contribution highlights the reasons for the need and urgency of an intervention from the supreme legislator of the Church in order to fill two legal gaps. One of them concerns the regulation of the impeded Apostolic See, both temporarily and - notably - because of a permanent and irreversible impediment of the Roman Pontiff. The second one regards the legal status of a Roman Pontiff who resigned from his office. The potentially problematic matters that would have to be faced and the aspects about which a law should be issued are therefore presented. The ultimate purpose is that of urging and involving the universal canon law scholarship towards an open and constructive discussion in order to develop a carefully examined and considered legislative proposal to be offered to the ecclesiastical authority.

SOMMARIO: 1. Una “nota verbale” non senza precedenti - 2. Le garanzie offerte dal diritto interno - 3. La preferenza ecclesiastica per la via diplomatica - 4. L’ingerenza secondo il trattato lateranense - 5. L’art. 4 del d.d.l. - 6. L’art. 7 del d.d.l. - 7. Il self-restraint sulle criticità della tutela dell’identità di genere - 8. Cause ed effetti della “nota verbale” - Appendice.

The Holy See and the Zan Bill on the subject of LGBTQ Defence

ABSTRACT: The diplomatic “parol note” by which the Holy See participated on the Zan bill is a formally incorrect deed but substantially reduced the protest only to the freedom interests of the Church, without interfering more in the full legislative power of the State in order to give also penal importance to the LGBTQ antidiscriminatory defence.

SOMMARIO: 1. Momenti di destino - 2. Lezioni sul diritto vaticano - 3. Stato pontificio e Stato della Città del Vaticano - 4. Diritto canonico e ordinamento vaticano - 5. Riflessioni conclusive.

Some reflections on the Vatican system. Remembering the Master.

ABSTRACT: In recalling the life and work of prof. Giuseppe Dalla Torre, the author highlights some key areas in which the interests and personal commitment of the late Maestro are most focused. The essay intends to highlight that prof. Dalla Torre, also on the basis of his immense scientific production, was not only a brilliant and highly original scholar of canon law and ecclesiastical law, but he was also a refined constitutionalist, a careful scholar of public law and constitutional law. in relation to the various state systems, as well as in relation to the very unique system of the Vatican City State. The paper makes a specific reflection on some aspects of the current Vatican legal system, to which Dalla Torre has dedicated significant personal energies, especially in recent years. The essay indicates that the Vatican system was not only an important object of study and legal interest on the part of Giuseppe Dalla Torre. But it also represented an important field of action in which he sowed with copious abundance: both as a consultant for various departments of the Apostolic See; both from a jurisprudential point of view, in the years in which he held prestigious positions as a Vatican magistrate and, most recently, as President of the same Court of the Vatican City State; and, again, from the point of view of the care of new generation of jurists - trained through a prestigious School led by himself - with the relevant purpose of providing them with the tools suitable to operate, even at a professional level, within the "walls" Vatican system. It follows that Giuseppe Dalla Torre not only represents an illustrious ecclesiastic and canonist of our times, but also an esteemed legal practitioner, as well as an appreciated "Vatican jurist".

SOMMARIO: 1. “La vita et l’intelletto nostro”: un inedito vaticano - 2. “In questa pratica”: il fascicolo manoscritto - 2.1. Il Barberiniano Latino 1369: struttura e datazione dei sette responsi - 2.2. La questione avanti il Sant’Uffizio: i confini dell’autorità inquisitoriale - 2.2.1. I cinque pareri pro - 2.2.2. I due pareri contra - 3. “Noi vi havemo consumato”: la quaestio del Ghislieri - 3.1. Propositio - 3.2. Oppositio - 3.3. Solutio - 4. Conclusioni - Appendice.

“Noi vi havemo consumato in questa pratica la vita et l’intelletto nostro”: an unpublished opinion by Pius V (1556)

ABSTRACT: Long before being enthroned as Pope with the name of Pius V (1566), Michele Ghislieri worked tirelessy and enthusiastically for the Roman Inquisition under Paul IV and his successors, building and cementing his position within the Roman Curia. In his capacity as commissary of the Holy Office (1556), Ghislieri was requested to express an opinion regarding the relationship of inquisitorial and episcopal jurisdictions in receiving abjurations. This opinion, delivered in the form of a quaestio of the medieval scolastic tradition and published here for the first time, casts new light not only on the intellectual biography of this famous Pope but also, given the fact that he was not the only consultor whose opinion was requested, on the daily work of the Roman tribunal and, in more general terms, on the capital importance of law within the spectrum of Western cultural system in Early Modern age.

SUMARIO: 1. La implementación del m.p. Mitis Iudex - 2. La salus animarum y la reforma de los procesos de nulidad matrimonial - 2.1. La salus animarum, principio inspirador - 2.2. ¿Cómo contribuye a la salus animarum el proceso judicial? - 3. La centralidad del Obispo diocesano.

Challenges presented by the conversion of justice in the Church in the light of m.p. Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus

ABSTRACT: In these pages I will try to show that the motive leading to the reform of the m.p. Mitis Iudex and the recovered centrality of the Bishop judge are questions that should not be limited exclusively to the processes of marriage nullity, since they are so important that they go beyond these procedural limits; on the contrary, they should project their influence not only on the norms that regulate the ordinary processes but also on the very organization of justice in the Church. The conversion of justice that the Roman Pontiff has initiated with the m.p. Mitis Iudex, therefore, involves the rest of the causes and canonical procedural law itself.

Col titolo della presente riflessione assume timbri di sconforto il sentimento di transitorietà e di incompiutezza che al travaglio meditativo dell’Autore ha sempre opposto l’amara constatazione di precarietà che qualsiasi tentativo di riforma della sua Chiesa di appartenenza propone a fronte della superficialità, o dell’inadeguatezza, e/o perfino della disarmante inettitudine degli uomini che vengono, di volta in volta, chiamati a porre in atto un progetto cristiano, perfino serio come quello (recente ormai fino a un certo punto), collocato al centro del “secolo breve”. (segue)

SOMMARIO: 1. Dal climax, al bioma, all’habitat dell’umano - 2. Il bioma panamazzonico e l’ecologia integrale - 3. La Conferenza ecclesiale dell’Amazzonia - 4. Le nuove forme di sinodalità e la Chiesa sacramento universale di salvezza - 5. Il munus petrinum e la presidenza nella carità - 6. La Vicaría Christi vescovile urbi et orbi vocata - 7. Il metodo per “accompagnare” le vicende sinodali: discernimento e gradualità - 8. La Chiesa cattolica fra universale e locale. - 9 . Il poliedro dell’oeconomia/dispensatio Ecclesiae - 10. L’esperienza episcopale panamazzonica pietra miliare dei “cammini sinodali” di tutta la Chiesa.

The exercise of episcopal power and the oecononomia/dispensatio Ecclesiae in Querida Amazonia

ABSTRACT: The essay aims to explain how the Pan-Amazonian synodal experience, because of a particularly compromised and suffering reality - as emerged above all during the current pandemic event -, have pushed the Church to a closer interpenetration of the own universal dimension with the local one and therefore to an exercise of episcopal power more in line with the original oeconomia / dispensatio Ecclesiae.

SOMMARIO: 1. Preambolo - 2. Si autem peccaverit in te frater tuus. Un caso di sviluppo esorbitante di un brano scritturale? - 3. Istituzione e metanoia; ovvero della irriducibile individualità del soggetto - 4. Su una ipotesi “diffusa” di episkopé. Dislocazione dell’azione penale a livello collegiale? - 5. (segue) Verso un rinnovamento radicale del processo penale (e non solo).

The inquisition as model for a papal or episcopal magistrature exempt from intuitus personae. Towards an alternative to overcome the current crisis of penal and administrative justice

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this article is to highlight the remains of absolutism that still permeate the legal codes of the Catholic Church (1917 and 1983), as traceable in and hierarchical relationship existing between the udienza diocesana (diocesian audience) and the udienza pontificia (Papal audience) and the individualistic nature of both. The author highlights dramatic elements of inefficiency and anti-historical prejudice in these institutions, which contrast with the hegemonic collegial ethos that has emerged from Vatican II. In proposing the inquisition as archetypal model for a transversal concentration of the judicial districts of different dioceses - as already implemented since 1938 in regard to judgements of matrimonial annulment - the article supports the overcoming of the limits that canon 1423 imposes on the collegial autonomy of bishops. These limits - the author concludes - can be surmounted only by a gradual recentering a collegial strategy on a recognizable unitary fulcrum of penal jurisdiction and the institutionalization of that “tribunal administrativum” that had been promised by canon 1400, § 2, of the current code, but has remained buried between indolence and oblivion in the Papal Curia.

SOMMARIO: 1. Le ascendenze remote di un moderno pasticcio legislativo - 2. (segue) Per una politica della pena opposta a quella del libro VI del CIC - 3. (segue) Inefficacia sanzionatoria voluta, o pseudo-riforma? – 4. Su alcune urgenze contestuali di graduale riforma vera, non simulata.

SOMMARIO: 1. Considerazioni introduttive - 2. Le radici della disciplina canonica sulle reliquie e la fenomenologia dei furta sacra - 3. Il periodo aureo della legislazione in tema di reliquie: la riforma di Urbano VIII e la sistematizzazione di Benedetto XIV - 4. Il Codex del 1917: un supporto moderno per una normativa antica - 5. Il can. 1190 del Codice giovanneo-paolino: un frammento superstite di una esigua storia giuridica - 6. Dedicatio altaris: a cavallo tra obbligo e raccomandazione - 7. Autenticità e conservazione delle reliquie: la competenza della Congregazione delle cause dei santi - 8. La competenza della Congregazione per il culto divino e la disciplina dei sacramenti sul legittimo regime cultuale - 9. Le peculiarità proprie del Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium - 10. Il Catechismo della Chiesa cattolica e le indicazioni della CEI: disposizioni a completamento del quadro normativo - 11. È lecito parlare di compravendita di reliquie all’interno dell’ordinamento ecclesiale? - 12. La nuova primavera del commercio delle reliquie: profili civilistici - 13. Riflessioni sull’applicazione della legge penale: provocazioni e nuovi orizzonti d’esplorazione.

Fragments between heaven and earth. The discipline of relics between canon law and the secular one

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to give an account of relics and in order to achieve it the paper examines three different perspectives. The first section charts the origin of the reliquary cult through an historical and systematic reconstruction, starting from the early Christianity until the 1917 Code of canon law. The second segment looks in more detail at the demanding objective to examine Church’s law in force on relics as well as relics worship. The normative to be analysed is contained in many different legislative sources, which have been object of little interest in terms of canonistic doctrine. The third and last section of this study points out the rising of the market of relics in our contemporary society. In particular, this point will be analysed through the eyes of the jurist who deals with religious matters, taking into account the complexity that links the canonical system to the national one, underlying the significant difficulties that the secular judiciary has to face when it comes to express themselves about subjects of “different order”.