20/05/2024 14:15 - 16:30

HALL: FATESI - DUSMET

Proponent: Fattori G.

Chair: D'Arienzo M.

Speaker: D'Arienzo M., Fattori G., Ferrante M., Mazzola R., Pacillo V.

1984 is an iconic date in the constitutional evolution of the Italian Republic and also of the catholic legal system which is, not by chance, the most influential religious law in the
national history and legislation. 1984 can be interpreted according to two categories. They complement each other, a 'small' 1984, which is 1984 proper, and a 'big' 1984. The small 1984 is the sequence of three legal events: it is the year of the new Concordat between Italy and the Holy See; it is the year of the Italian State's first Intesa (agreement) with a non-Catholic confession; in 1984, the second Canon Law Code came into force, not even seventy years after the first. In this sense, the 'small' 1984 remains primarily a matter for specialists in State-Church public law and canon law.
'Big' 1984, on the other hand, is the outcome of a renewed social habitat and the metaphor of a different cultural climate. In this sense, the big 1984 is a projection of itself, the premise for its own overcoming and the subsequent evolution that changed into a secular meaning the denominational paradigm that had legitimized a hierarchy between majority and
minority religions.
Forty years after 1984, it is this 'big' 1984 that challenges jurists of Religion to confront themselves in a broader perspective, to interpret the balance and projections of a legal turning point in its historical-political dimension. Due to the specificity of the topic, the panel will be held in Italian.