Contributi di Fortunato Freni

Religiously oriented eating styles and sustainability in the legal experience of the territories facing the Mediterranean Sea 

ABSTRACT: The paper presents the different eating styles created by religious confessions, which were born in the territories facing the Mediterranean Sea, and by oriental religions, which have also taken root in Europe. Some problems that arise in the exercise of religious food freedom within civil legal systems are analyzed. The interrelationships between political institutions, religious confessions and communities ethically committed to sustainable development are studied, in order to use the different food codes to more effectively pursue the unitary objective of improving the health and well-being of living beings in the Euro-Mediterranean area, of wisely exploit environmental resources and redistribute food more equitably.

SOMMARIO: 1. Il cibo nei territori prospicienti il Mar Mediterraneo tra pluralismo etnico-religioso e biodiversità - 2. I diversi codici alimentari delle religioni mediterranee - 3. I rapporti fra ordinamenti civili e religiosi in ordine alla libertà religiosa alimentare - 4. Diritto al cibo, diritto dell’ambiente ed ecologia integrale fra sistemi giuridici religiosi e umanesimi non confessionali - 5. I novel food e i tentativi di greenwashing - 6. La sostenibilità del cibo per “alimentare” il laico sogno europeo di unità nella diversità.

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.

Integral ecological transition and religious discrimination of migrant women in the Mediterranean

SOMMARIO: 1. Ecologia integrale e parità di genere - 2. Flussi migratori nel Mediterraneo e discriminazioni religiose femminili - 3. Interventi europei di collaborazione interculturale nel Mare nostrum - 4. Verso un’unica polis euromediterranea?

ABSTRACT: In this essay it is hoped that the current development model will be overcome, because it is highly polluting and unfair from a socio-economic point of view, based as it is on competition and prevarication, the result of male hegemony in decision-making bodies and therefore discriminating for weaker and for women. These, on the other hand, must guide an integral ecological transition, because they are more inclined to the custody of creation and future generations, as well as to the improvement of the general living conditions of society, through sharing and dialogue, rather than with imposition and hard confrontation, as Pope Francis claims, in the encyclical Laudato si'. In particular, the ecological and social degradation caused by the androcentric system has increased the flows of migrants so-called environmental, which cross the Mediterranean Sea undergoing abuse and discrimination including religious ones. Above all, Muslim migrant women are more vulnerable also due to the misogynistic cultural heritage resulting from an erroneous and obsolete interpretation of the Koranic texts. Europe can be more involved in the fight against the negative consequences of climate change and discrimination against migrants, implementing policies inspired by sustainable development and intercultural solidarity, also with a view to fostering the ambitious and suggestive attempt to reach a integrated Euro-Mediterranean area.

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione: per una transizione ecologica integrale - 2. La varietà dei modelli eco-culturali dei soggetti del pluralismo etico-religioso - 3. Le associazioni animaliste e lo stile di vita vegano - 4. Le comunità smart dell’economia collaborativa sostenibile - 5. Le imprese socialmente responsabili - 6. Le “società benefit” - 7. I domini collettivi e le cooperative di comunità nella gestione dei beni comuni - 8. La tutela dei siti naturali d’interesse culturale - 9. Le organizzazioni agresti di impegno sociale - 10. Il sostegno finanziario delle banche etiche allo sviluppo sostenibile - 11. Conclusione: un ulteriore impegno per l’ecclesiasticista.

Integral ecology and ethical-religious pluralism

ABSTRACT: The contribution intends to attest the interest for the scholar of ecclesiastical law for the phenomenon of ecological transition, in which some confessional bodies, as well as groups, associations and communities of people who are differently oriented from the ethical-cultural point of view, driven by a resilience movement induced by the social and environmental crisis, they are involved in various ways. They, in pursuing what Pope Francis defined, in the encyclical Laudato si', “integral ecology”, combine attention to the protection of creation and the expression of the personality of man, through the implementation of initiatives based on a new development model.

SOMMARIO: 1. La legge n. 40 sulla procreazione medicalmente assistita (pma) dopo gli interventi giurisprudenziali - 2. La pma per i singles e il presunto diritto alla mono-genitorialità - 3. Le scelte etiche del procreare di fronte ai nuovi ritrovati tecnologici - 4. La mediazione del (bio-)diritto laico.

The alleged right to single parenthood and the ethical choices of beginning-life

ABSTRACT: This contribution, taking its cue from requests for jurisprudential recognition of an alleged right to single parenthood, analyzes the phenomenon of pma for singles in the light of the different ethical conceptions of procreation, reaching the conclusion that the law 40 on pma should be entirely rewritten through a normative intervention oriented in the sense of a secular mediation, within the framework of the pluralism of ethical-religious conceptions present in society, which knows how to combine the right of self-determination with the duty of solidarity.

SOMMARIO: 1. La bilateralità “necessaria” e i suoi limiti - 2. Le intese apicali e il generale regime di libertà religiosa - 3. Le intese paraconcordatarie e la delegificazione - 4. La bilateralità “diffusa” e le intese ulteriori - 5. Le differenti bilateralità: una questione di metodo?

The "new agreements" State - religious denominations between necessary bilateralism and broad bilateralism

ABSTRACT: The paper analyzes the system of sources of Italian ecclesiastical law in its two pillars of agreed rules and unilateral rules. The former are necessarily the result of an agreement between different legal systems because they govern the specific relations between the State and individual religious denominations, that is, between sovereign and autonomous entities in their respective orders. The unilateral rules, on the other hand, fall under State jurisdiction because they aim to regulate rights and procedures relating to the generic freedom of conscience of believers, non-believers and other believers. Nevertheless, even in this second area, bilateralism between the State and ethical-religious groups is increasingly being practiced. However, this must not strictly condition State autonomy in the political order, but must aim to enhance the democratic tool of dialogue, as broad as possible, between institutions and intermediate bodies. The two forms of bilateralism (the necessary one and the broad one) are in fact structured within the processes which grant ethical-religious issues varied legal forms and give rise to different types of sources. It is essential that institutional practice does not artfully confuse the two described "bilateralisms", ending up surreptitiously managing all the heterogeneous and plural ethical-religious factor through a single, heavy and comfortable, bureaucratic method based on mere political discretionality.

SOMMARIO: 1. Il ruolo di Parlamento e Governo nella modifica del Concordato lateranense e nell’elaborazione delle intese con le confessioni acattoliche - 2. La prassi instaurata per l’iter di stipulazione delle intese - 3. La discrezionalità del Governo all’avvio delle trattative e il caso dell’UAAR - 4. Il concetto di confessione religiosa parte di un’intesa - 5. I limiti e le garanzie costituzionali nell’uso delle intese - 6. Anomalie tra normativa bilaterale e normativa unilaterale: intese-fotocopia e diritto comune “para-pattizio” - 7. La differenza fra le trattative per un’intesa e la negoziazione normativa - 8. La presunta minaccia del fondamentalismo religioso e il senso d’insicurezza instillato a fini politici.

The proceding of agreements on relations between State and religious denominations is restricted between political discretion and alleged insecurity

ABSTRACT: The present essay analyzes the procedure aimed at stipulating agreements on relations between the state and religious denominations considering the new elements introduced by the UAAR case. The Italian Union of Atheists and Agnostics is the protagonist of a long-standing case law case, because the Government has rejected the request for access to negotiations that allow to verify in concrete whether the conditions exist for concluding an agreement pursuant to in the third paragraph of the article 8 of the Constitution

SOMMARIO: 1. I gruppi etico-deontologici e il diritto della polis democratica alla luce dei recenti cambiamenti sociali vissuti dalle identità collettive - 2. I codici di autoregolamentazione nel settore del lavoro - 3. Il mercato tra codificazione etica ed eteroregolamentazione - 4. Le recenti opportunità di lavoro socialmente utile offerte dalle tecnologie social alle smart communities - 5. La nuova sensibilità deontologica nel mondo finanziario: le banche etiche e la finanza islamica - 6. La rilevanza nell’ordine della polis dei vari tipi di norme contenute nei codici deontologici: attualità e prospettive inter- e/o trans-culturali.

Codes of ethics and Deontology in the fields of Labor, Market and Finance. Freedom of Conscience and the Transition from Oeconomicus Corporatism to Democratic Intercultural Cooperation

ABSTRACT: The paper analyzes the recent relevance of deontological codes, from which a process of enriching the concept of deontology seems to emerge. This is increasingly understood not only in a corporatist way as an ethics of conduct within the category of reference, but also in a democratic way as the ethics of service made to the polis by professional communities, which now, in the overall world of work, appear ethically inspired in the most varied ways. Following the development that freedom of conscience has experienced in its various forms of collective exercise, we are positively experiencing new patterns of work organization where deontology represents a synthesis between moral and law. Similarly, to churches, even some professional communities have useful, non-utilitarian relationships, and open to democratic intercultural cooperation, with their multiform and typical ways of working in the service of the human person, elected to lifestyles or spiritual missions. In order to encourage and extend this phenomenon of greater ethical accountability of free professions, some legal channels will be analyzed to better harmonize the use of those new deontological standards with legal rules in order to ensure balance and order at a general level, and to avoid the social dissociation in neo-corporatist groups.

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Un primo inventario dell’impegno sociale eticamente motivato: a) filantropia; b) ambientalismo, animalismo e veganismo; c) clubs service ; d) valorizzazione dei beni culturali; e) agricoltura sociale; f) oratori; g) finanza etica e sharing economy ; h) fondazioni familiari; i) social streets ; l) architettura sociale; m) orti urbani collettivi - 3. I codici di autodisciplina e la libertà di coscienza come trade union tra ordine giuridico e ordini spirituali - 4. Conclusioni.

SOMMARIO: 1. L’incremento dell’immigrazione in Europa nell’attuale contesto politico e religioso - 2. La “Primavera araba” e le tensioni afferenti alla libertà religiosa nei nuovi equilibri geopolitici - 3. Gli odierni fermenti culturali e giuridici nell’Islam mediterraneo - 4. La prospettiva di una laicità inclusiva euro-mediterranea avverso gli esclusivi schemi “mondialatinizzanti” - 5. Il ruolo dell’Europa nel bacino del Mediterraneo - 6. Alcuni strumenti per estendere la libertà di coscienza a tutte le tendenze culturali: a) il dialogo interreligioso - 7. Segue: b) le normative concordate - 8. Il decentramento comunitario e l’esigenza di una duttile (ma anche non discriminatoria) governance europea.

Migrations and laicity of the law in the polis euro-Mediterranean

ABSTRACT:
The recent increase in migration flows to Europe and the tumultuous popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East (so-called Arab Spring) are creating significant problems of coexistence between different cultures and religions throughout the euro-Mediterranean area. Leveraging on new cultural and legal turmoil of the moderate part of the Islam and on the revaluation of the plural open and inclusive identity of the Old Continent, it is hoped the use of a procedural laicity at the entire polis euro-Mediterranean, for bring near both sides of the Mare Nostrum with intercultural dialogue and prevent the worsening of the clash of civilizations: the North Christian and the Muslim South. We propose, therefore, are some tips to overcome the tensions on religious freedom in the new geopolitical balance and for make collaborate with institutions, in a democratic and transparent mode, communities and religious and ethical groups in an attempt to reach a wider area of integration euro-Mediterranean, whose legal system, spreading better peace and social justice, would create more adequate conditions for the protection of inalienable human dignity.
 

SOMMARIO: 1. La globalizzazione ed i conflitti di identità - 2. La unilateralità confessionale - 3. La unilateralità statale - 4. La bilateralità necessaria - 5. La definitività provvisoria di una specifica transazione - 6. La parlamentarizzazione - 7. Gli accordi derivati - 8. L’obiezione di coscienza - 9. La rilevanza ultranazionale dei diritti umani - 10. La giurisprudenza costituzionale - 11. I recenti contributi ad una moderna nozione di positività del diritto - 12. Il diritto ecclesiastico come strumento per l’intercultura.