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Climate and environmental urgency, usurocracy and poor countries' debt 

ABSTRACT: Questo contributo, come altri precedenti sul tema, è mosso dall'intento di far conoscere ai lettori di questa informata rivista scientifica dibattiti e aggiornamenti destinati a contesti diversi dal diritto canonico e dal diritto ecclesiastico statale, ma indubbiamente vicini per contenuti e metodo di indagine. Si tratta delle battaglie di civiltà contro l'imperialismo internazionale del denaro, condannate dai Pontefici romani e con toni ancora più incisivi da Papa Francesco, al quale è dedicato il seguente scritto in occasione del suo 87° compleanno. Le sue origini remote vanno ricercate nelle lotte contro l'usura della plebe romana, abbracciate da Simon Bolivar e dai suoi epigoni. L'autore del saggio, Avvocato della Santa Sede per il Foro Canonico e Civile, si ricollega alla grande tradizione in questione quando torna sul tema del debito estero dei Paesi poveri, strettamente connesso ai nostri giorni con quello dell'urgenza climatica e ambientale. Si tratta di un elemento nuovo, che arricchisce le acquisizioni sui fallimenti del debito e sulla finanziarizzazione dell'economia mondiale con un approfondimento, dal punto di vista giuridico, della dimensione olistica della natura e della realtà che ci circonda.

ABSTRACT: This contribution, like other previous ones on the subject, is moved by the intent to acquaint readers of this informed scientific magazine with debates and updates intended for contexts other than canon law and state ecclesiastical law, but undoubtedly close in content and method of inquiry. These are the battles of civilization against the international imperialism of money, condemned by the Roman Pontiffs and in even more incisive tones by Pope Francis, to whom the following paper is dedicated on the occasion of his 87th birthday. Its remote origins are to be found in the struggles against usury of the Roman plebs, embraced by Simon Bolivar and his epigones. The author of the paper, Advocate of the Holy See for the Canonical and Civil Forum, reconnects with the great tradition in question when he returns to the subject of the foreign debt of poor countries, closely connected in our days with that of climate and environmental urgency. This is a new element, which enriches the acquisitions on the failures of debt and the financialization of the world economy with a deepening, from a legal point of view, of the holistic dimension of nature and the reality that surrounds us.

SOMMARIO: 1. I quattro NO di Papa Francesco - 2. Dall’Italia al Burkina Faso al Sudafrica - 3. Il ruolo della Santa Sede: in particolare, Francesco e il Nord del mondo - 4. L’Enciclica Laudato si’ e l’Esortazione apostolica Laudate Deum.

Status and current perspectives on debt

ABSTRACT: Ours is a world balanced precariously between hopelessly opposing forces. In such a world the long-standing and noble battle for the elimination of illegitimate debt has little hope of success. Action must be taken on the causes but do we have the capacity and the tools? This question is attempted to be answered in the five paragraphs of this update article, reiterating with further arguments the need for the United Nations General Assembly to request an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the consistency and adequacy of existing rules. It is appropriate to refer for the premises to an earlier article on the subject, entitled Holy See and illegitimate debt. The path to the International Court of Justice (2015-2022)1.

ABSTRACT: Il nostro è un mondo in equilibrio precario tra forze irrimediabilmente opposte. In un mondo simile, la lunga e nobile battaglia per l'eliminazione del debito illegittimo ha poche speranze di successo. È necessario agire sulle cause, ma ne abbiamo la capacità e gli strumenti? Si proverà a rispondere a tale domanda nei cinque paragrafi di questo articolo di aggiornamento, ribadendo con ulteriori argomentazioni la necessità che l'Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite richieda un parere consultivo alla Corte Internazionale di Giustizia sulla coerenza e l'adeguatezza delle norme esistenti. È opportuno rimandare per le premesse a un precedente articolo sul tema, intitolato Santa Sede e debito illegittimo. Il percorso verso la Corte internazionale di giustizia (2015-2022).

SOMMARIO: 1. Coltivare la speranza in un mondo migliore - 2. L’alternativa alla violenza nella svolta latinoamericana - 3. L’improbabile via statunitense - 4. La via italiana oggi - 5. Esiste un futuro per la via africana sul debito?

Against a “white justice”. The tortuous relation between slavery, race and law

ABSTRACT: The present article aims to analyze slavery as a specific and global phenomenon, meaning it as a condition of subordination of one man to another man. I will analyze the pro-slavery and anti-slavery arguments, the Critical Race Theory’s reflections about the relationship between law and racism, and eventually I will focus on current forms of slavery.

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Un percorso storico e giusfilosofico: le argomentazioni a favore della schiavitù ... - 3. (segue) ... e le argomentazioni contrarie alla schiavitù - 4. Disuguaglianza, diritti e razza: la prospettiva della Critical Race Theory - 5. La schiavitù esiste ancora? La tratta di esseri umani - 6. Considerazioni conclusive.

For a critical analysis of the war experience in the Western civilisation (from war-duels to the “blind” ban on so called aggression) 

ABSTRACT: In taking up the threads of a meditation recently begun in this Journal, the Author manages to update its profile within an increasingly decisive criticism of the Briand-Kellogg pact: unnatural resolution of the dialectic between national interests in a pure et simple of so-called aggression of one state by another. The criticism moves in particular from the nature, no less brutally political than the war itself, of the UN decision to ban the alleged aggressor, without any analysys whatsoeverof the underlying reasons that constituted the basis for it, in the presence of a shared judging body and impartiality, capable too of suggesting possible conciliatory measures also with regard to the damage already caused by the war. The essay concludes by deriving the need to overcome the noted backwordness of the UN Charter on this point, channeling it into the context of a culture of “mild law”, inclined to wards the gradual overcoming of the “sovereign state” model, in the context of the recent development of nonimperial federal forms of coexistence and non- violent collaboration between nations.

SOMMARIO: 1. Una premessa - 2. Sull’uso della forza nella rivoluzione oceanica - 3. Tra legittimismo ottocentesco e rivolta delle nazioni - 4. Sulle note di anarchia dei rapporti internazionali fra le due guerre mondiali - 5. (segue). ... e sulla fondamentale questione dell’impotenza giudicante dell’ONU - 6. Conflitto e aggressione nell’anarchia succeduta alla Santa Alleanza - 7. (segue) ... contro l’autodichia esasperata delle potenze egemoni - 8. Itinerari alternativi (non bellici) alla decisione di guerra -9. (segue) ... in tema di costituzioni europee e di coercizione nei trattati “di pace” - 10. Verso orizzonti nuovi in materia di riformismo costituzionale?

Christian conception of history in Carl Schmitt’s Thought

ABSTRACT: The aim of this essay is to analyse the Christian conception of history in Carl Schmitt’s thought, already developed in his previous works, but again recalled and reworked in the 1950s, in order to hinder the technological drift of society. In particular, in outlining this new and different temporal horizon, Schmitt, on the one hand, recalled the solitary and prophetic intuitions of Donoso Cortés and, on the other, the mysterious figure of the katéchon, or rather, one of the most meaningful concepts of Schmitt’s theological-political Weltanschauung.

SOMMARIO: 1. Un nuovo e terrificante scenario - 2. Tramonto o rinascita dell’eone cristiano? - 3. Katéchon versus Éschaton.

A legal monster of the twentieth century: from technological warfare to its humanistic overcoming?

ABSTRACT: The Author attempts to reconsider the dispute that has opened between Russie and Ukraine in the light not only of the evident flagrance of an abrupt, illegitimate ‘punitive expedition’ by Moscow towards a key territory for the control of the Black Sea, but also in the context of the great game of a power confrontation, never really concluded, between the two military blocs, despite the agreements on nuclear desarmament stipulated between Reagan and Gorbachev in the constituent phase of an unprecedented Russian Federation, after the passage from the start of a troubled liquidation of the Stalinism to the announced overcoming of the blockade policy. A context, against which NATO’s failure to comply with the mutual commitment of the two parties to the complete cessation of mutual hostile conduct, prior to perestroika, seems full and flagrant. The essay recognizes in the event the clear failure of an apparent opening of trust towards the post-communist counterpart, internal to the substantial maintenance of an armed peace with a world to be kept for a long time in a sort of quarantine on the margins of “Western civilisation”, for an indefinite period and under the strict control of an internationalized military apparatus of exorbitant dimensions. A dead-end road, destined to produce even partial moments of exploitation of the repressive functions of the UN, rather than supporting its fundamental role of “saving future generations from the scourge of war”. To such a logic the A. tries to escape, in an attempt to bring the cooperation relationships laboriously woven into the fabric of international relation back to a framework of substantial good faith, from human subjects whose trust and honor always seem due, until rigorously proven otherwise; in the belief that progressive success can only come to these relations by restoring a framework that favours the basic ethical choices on the UN statute, as an indispensable background for constructive settling of potential situations of conflict of interest, which arise between member states in the course of their peaceful cooperation towards an orderly sharing of the planet’s resources.

SOMMARIO: 1. Preambolo - 2. La guerra ‘giusta’ in Occidente. Tra Tarda Antichità e Medioevo del diritto - 3. (segue) Evoluzione del problema nell’età dell’imperialismo - 4. Interrogativi sulla resistenza non violenta come verità più profonda sull’uomo - 5. (segue) Fra realismo politico e profezia del Regno (Mt. V, 38-48) - 6. Centralità della Croce: l’imitazione del processo a Gesù negli “Acta martyrum” - 7. (segue) Fede e ragione. Il doppio registro dell’economia salvifica - 8. Quadro sintetico dei residui ostacoli sulla via di un mondo diverso e solidale - 9. (segue) Sull’incompatibilità tra deterrenza e trattativa. L’ammonimento cinese - 10. Etica confuciana, diritto romano, diritto canonico. La Cina, oggi - 11. Dal ‘maschio alfa’ al giudice. Agli albori del divieto di vendetta privata - 12. (segue) Su un’Autorità addetta al controllo dell’aggressività interstatale - 13. Verso una nuova guerra ‘giusta’? Dubbi di fondo sulla nozione di aggressione - 14. Una NATO senza legge verso un gioco, di cui nessuno è responsabile? - 15 (segue) Sottrarre la neutralizzazione all’autonomia degli stati? - 16. È già irricevibile una tardiva ’actio finium regundorum’ sotto garanzia ONU? - 17. Quali altre vie per la missione di una ‘Russia eterna’, nella fraternità dei popoli? - 18 (segue) Quasi una conclusione.

The perspective of 'Praedicate Evangelium' regarding liturgical abuses

ABSTRACT: The paper examines the transformations made by the Ap. const. Praedicate Evangelium [= EP] regarding the contrast of liturgical abuses. Beginning with the problem of celebratory propriety that emerged in the context of postconciliar disbandment, it first examines the essential features of the case of abusiveness (the frequency of the conduct, the erroneous presumption of justification for the conduct, and the prominence of the authoritative condition) and, then, the main magisterial and papal directive interventions. Article 66 PB outlined a specific supervisory function on the part of the Congregation for Worship. PE, indulging the criterion of decentralizing co-responsibility, stimulates awareness of its own attributions and the specific responsibility of the bishops in ensuring the observance of liturgical norms. Article 96 EP therefore makes explicit the duties of the episcopal office and the supporting and assisting role of the Dicastery. The elimination of abusiveness is expressly linked with increased liturgical formation. The normative change does not change the essence of ecclesial discipline; however, it requires a qualitative leap in the pastoral solicitude of bishops (the most significant contribution is the deontological call). An in-depth theoretical and practical study of the problem of liturgical abusiveness, without trespassing on casuistry, can help complete the cultural and regulatory turnaround underway.

SOMMARIO: 1. Il sentito problema della correttezza celebrativa - 2. L’inquadramento della fattispecie abusiva - 3. Gli interventi magisteriali e direttivi pontifici - 4. La disciplina dell’art. 66 della ‘Pastor bonus’ - 5. Il nuovo approccio di ‘Praedicate Evangelium’ - 5.1. Il contesto della riforma curiale - 5.2. L’art. 96 di ‘Praedicate Evangelium’ - 5.3. La responsabilità episcopale - 6. L’opportuno collegamento con la formazione liturgica - 7. Un mutamento disciplinare o attitudinale?

Constantine I The Great. The Emperor, the man, the leader

ABSTRACT: History is not the teacher of life, but perhaps the reverse could be true if one looks at the emblematic events and proceedings of this interesting study conference, held at the University of Bari from 17 to 18 November 2022, in which the mysteries of the past are probed through the eyes of the present. The author reviews the salient features of the figure of Constantine I the Great as Emperor, Man and Commander to reach perplexing conclusions about his elevation to the honours of the Altars, especially in the Orthodox world.

SOMMARIO: 1. Vita magistra historiae - 2. L’Imperatore - 3. L’uomo - 4. Il condottiero.

The Messina genesis of the dual vocation of Giorgio La Pira, a scholar of Roman law and Venerable of the Catholic Church

ABSTRACT: In the same Messina environment in which the religious conversion of the young La Pira grew, his vocation as a historian of Romanity was also defined as being able to gather the typical unity profile with respect for the diversity of faiths and Mediterranean cultures. Therefore, it is not surprising that Pope Francis, once the "Holy Mayor of Florence" was proclaimed Venerable, agreed with him in recognising the Mediterranean as a place of communication between different worlds.

1 - Un rigoroso pensatore teutonico, Ludwig Wittgenstein, della cui dottrina, pur nel dissenso, non può non farsi carico ogni serio ambito di studi, ha enunciato, fra gli altri, due asserti piuttosto allarmanti in ordine a quanto ci si prefigge di trattare, e cioè: a) che il passato non ci direbbe molto del presente e b) che quando non si ha una conoscenza logico-empirica, cioè fondata sull’esperienza sensibile, sarebbe meglio tacere. (continua)

The friendship with Gladio Gemma in the years of ours teaching in the University of Modena

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. I fatti della politica e l’ambizione di contribuire alle esigenze di armonizzazione costituzionale e allo sviluppo della vita democratica in Italia - 3. Il concilio Vaticano Il e le trasformazioni della società italiana negli anni sessanta - 4. Il dibattito culturale e politico sulla riforma della legislazione ecclesiastica.

ABSTRACT: Individuals and experiences that, in the years between 1962 and 1970, had an important influence on the civic and political growth of the author and Gladio Gemma. New focus was given to the issue of relations between the State and the Catholic Church in the late fifties. The Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 and the transformation of Italian society in the 1960s. Tendencies in the jurisprudence on the theme of relations between the state and religious confessions. The cultural and political debate on the reform of ecclesiastical legislation.