10/07/2025 09:45
- 12:00
HALL: Seminar Room 02
Proponent:
Ciravegna M.,
Fabris C.M.,
Zuanazzi I.
Chair:
Zuanazzi I.
Speaker:
Ciravegna M.,
Dimodugno D.,
Fabris C.M.,
Ruscazio M.C.,
Zuanazzi I.
The principle of self-determination in personal life choices and the principle of democratic participation in the forms of management of collective instances have become almost axioms following the socio-cultural and juridical transformations that have affected state systems. The transposition of the 'consensus method' has therefore also become a challenge for the Catholic Church, an institutionally hierarchical community founded on principles of divine derivation, to open up to forms of greater co-responsibility, participation and adherence of the faithful in the formation of rules or decisions that involve the good of all or of the individuals concerned. In the perspective of a more synodal Church, according to the orientations of the current pontificate, the panel intends to examine the actual declinations of the consensus method in the various spheres of the ecclesial order, both ad intra in the relations between hierarchical authorities and the community of the faithful, and ad extra in the relations with States or international organisations, seeking to compare, on the one hand, the sense and relevance of this value in the light of the nature and mission of the Church, and on the other hand, the limits and resistance that may arise from a juridical tradition, although original with respect to States, but not entirely autonomous, insofar as it repeats its authority from the divine mandate.