ABSTRACT

The topic of the ecclesiastical-religious bodies is, forty years after the revision of the 1984 Agreements, of great scientific and practical interest. This is because the reformed legal condition of the canonical bodies, designed through the novation of the Concordat, in proposing itself as the default discipline for the definition of the regulatory structure of all the peripheral confessional branches with legal personality, has allowed these subjectivities to carry out a social presence that is not dissimilar to that of non-profit organizations under common law and the assumption of a ‘way of being’ compatible with the original specialty. Thus the bilateral legislation was able to harmonize with the general rules, inserting the religious bodies into the legal dynamics concerning solidarity and subsidiary action in pursuit of the collective interest and the common good.