Concordat
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Sidebar/configuration' not found. A concordat (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a convention between the Holy See and a sovereign state that defines the relationship between the Catholic Church and the state in matters that concern both,[1] i.e. the recognition and privileges of the Catholic Church in a particular country and with secular matters that affect church interests.
According to P. W. Brown the use of the term "concordat" does not appear "until the pontificate of Pope Martin V (1413–1431) in a work by Nicholas de Cusa, entitled De Concordantia Catholica.[2] The first concordat dates from 1098, and from then to the beginning of the First World War the Holy See signed 74 concordats.[1] Due to the substantial remapping of Europe that took place after the war, new concordats with legal successor states were necessary.[1] The post–World War I era saw the greatest proliferation of concordats in history.[1]
Although for a time after the Second Vatican Council, which ended in 1965, the term 'concordat' was dropped, it reappeared with the Polish Concordat of 1993 and the Portuguese Concordat of 2004. A different mode of relations between the Vatican and various states is still evolving,[3] often contentiously, in the wake of a growing secularism and religious pluralism in the western world.
Church teaching
The Catholic Church historically claimed not to be bound to one form of government over another, but was willing to work with any kind of government, so long as the rights of God and believers were maintained. Pius XI wrote in 1933:
Universally known is the fact that the Catholic Church is never bound to one form of government more than to another, provided the Divine rights of God and of Christian consciences are safe. She does not find any difficulty in adapting herself to various civil institutions, be they monarchic or republican, aristocratic or democratic.[4]
Church–state dichotomy
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From a church–state perspective, the contentions regarding concordats involves two perspectives.
From a Catholic perspective, the Church has the moral and theological right to enter into diplomatic relations with states in order to reach agreements regarding the care of its members residing there. This is the concept of Libertas ecclesiae (freedom of the Church).
From a non-Catholic perspective, concordats may pose certain concerns such as:
- concordats may not be "the same as treaties" because they are entered into by an entity that is both religious and political in nature, viz., the Catholic Church, with exception to states which are expressly atheist or are identified as choosing anti-religious views, whereas any other treaty is regularly between two sovereign entities on a horizontal level, i.e., purely political in nature,[5] and
- depending on the negotiations agreed upon in the concordat, non-Catholic religious groups face the threat of being marginalized. For example, in Spain, although the Constitution guarantees religious freedom, the Catholic Church is mentioned by name, and in practice holds a pre-eminent position among other religious groups.[6] In recent years, debate has occurred regarding whether the Spanish government should maintain a concordat with the Vatican.[7]
Due to these concerns, the United States did not establish diplomatic ties to the Vatican until the Ronald Reagan administration in 1984; and, to this day, the United States does not have a concordat with the Vatican, despite the two having a mutual "compromise" in terms of relationship.[8]
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"Although the United States will probably not go so far as some nations have by concluding a concordat with the Vatican, it will, in effect, further the religious purposes of the Vatican. Otherwise, the Vatican would have no interest in establishing diplomatic relations with the United States. Perhaps it is accurate to characterize the exchange of embassies as a compromise - meaning, the United States is willing to further the religious purposes of the Vatican, if the Vatican is willing to further the foreign policy objectives of the United States."
Examples of concordats
- The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII. During the French Revolution, the National Assembly had taken Church properties and issued the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Subsequent laws abolished Christian holidays.[9] Many religious leaders had either gone into exile or been executed during the Reign of Terror. The Church gave up any claims to lands confiscated after 1790, but secured the right to public worship, subject to any public safety concerns on the part of the local prefect. Napoleon was able to pacify French Catholics, while limiting the papacy's influence in France. While the concordat restored some ties to the papacy, it largely favored the state.[10] Within a year Napoleon unilaterally amended the agreement with the Organic Articles legislating religious practice.
Some concordats guarantee the Catholic Church the tax-exempt status of a charity, being by fact the largest charitable institution in the world, either stating this explicitly, as in Brazil (2008, Article 15)[11] and Italy (1984, Article 7.3),[12] or phrasing it indirectly, as in Portugal (2004, art. 12).[13] Template:Papal primacy and infallibility
When the political will is present, such concordat privileges can be extended by domestic legislation. In 1992, the tax exemption granted the Church by the Italian concordat was interpreted by a law which permits the Catholic Church to avoid paying 90% of what it owes to the state for its commercial activities.[14] Thus, a small shrine within the walls of a cinema, holiday resort, shop, restaurant or hotel is sufficient to confer religious exemption.[15] In June 2007 Neelie Kroes, the European Commissioner for Competition announced an investigation of this. Then, in August, the deputy finance minister in Romano Prodi's fragile center-left coalition said the issue needed to be tackled in the next year's budget.[16] However, after that nothing more about this was heard from the Barroso Commission and a few months later the Prodi government fell.[citation needed]
The Slovak concordat (2000, art. 20.2) ensures that church offertories are "not subject to taxation or to the requirement of public accountability".[17]
This is also the case in Côte d'Ivoire, where far larger sums are involved. The Basilica at Yamoussoukro, is estimated to have cost $300 million, and the additional running expenses for what is the largest church in the world are also shielded from scrutiny by the 1992 concordat concluded with the Ivorian president. Houphouët-Boigny claimed that these funds came from his private fortune. A Vatican official is reported to have called the agreement over the foundation set up to administer these funds "a delicate matter".[18] Nevertheless, this concordat ensures that the foundation's income and assets remain untaxed (art. 9.1), it holds these funds beyond the reach of both criminal and civil law (art. 7.1), it permits this money to be sent out of the country (art. 13.2) and it keeps all the foundation's documents "inviolable", in other words, secret (art. 8).[19]
In Colombia there was a crisis between state and church in 1994 when Attorney-General Gustavo de Greiff accused several bishops of having illegal contacts with the FARC guerrillas. It turned out that under Colombia's concordat with the Holy See, members of the clergy could only be investigated by ecclesiastical courts which are ruled by canon law, and that the bishops were therefore immune from investigation by the civil authorities on what many in Colombia considered to be a serious felony.[citation needed]
List
There have been at least several hundred concordats over the centuries.[20] The following is a sortable list of the concordats and other bilateral agreements concluded by the Holy See.
References
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- ^ a b c d René Metz, What is Canon Law? (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1960 [1st Edition]), p. 137
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Browne, P. W. (4 May 2018). "The Pactum Callixtinum: An Innovation in Papal Diplomacy". The Catholic Historical Review. 8 (2): 180–190. JSTOR 25011853.
- ^ See, for example, Petkoff 2007.
- ^ Pius XI, Dilectissima Nobis 1933
- ^ Robert A. Graham, "Introduction: Reflections on Vatican Diplomacy", in Kent and Pollard, eds., Papal Diplomacy, 1, 2
- ^ Andrea Bonime-Blanc, Spain's Transition to Democracy: The Politics of Constitution-making (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, Inc., 1987), 104.
- ^ Maria Elena Olmos Ortega, "Los Acuerdos con la Santa Sede: Instrumentos Garantes de la Libertad Religiosa", in Maria del Mar Martin, Mercedes Salido, Jose Maria Vazquez Garcia-Penuela, eds., Iglesia Catolica y Relaciones Internacionales: Actas del III Simposio Internacional de Derecho Concordatorio (Granada: Editorial Comares, 2008), 489–502.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bettwy, Samuel M. (Summer 1984). "United States - Vatican Recognition: Background and Issues". The Catholic Lawyer. 29 (3): 265. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."France". Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Archived from the original on 6 February 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2011. See drop-down essay on "Religion and Politics until the French Revolution"
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Vilmer, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène (2007). "Commentaire du Concordat de 1801 entre la France et le Saint-Siège" [Comment on the Concordat of 1801 between France and the Holy See]. Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique (in français). 102 (1): 124–154. doi:10.1484/J.RHE.3.141.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Brazil | Concordat: text (2008)". Concordat Watch. Translated by Sottomaior, Daniel. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Concordat Watch - Italy - Modifications to the Lateran Concordat (1984): text". www.concordatwatch.eu. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Concordat Watch - Portugal - Concordat (2004): text". www.concordatwatch.eu. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Maltese, Curzio (25 June 2007). "Property tax relief for the Church: EU takes Italy to Court". Concordat Watch. Translated by Hunter, Graeme A. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ "Gli alberghi dei santi alla crociata dell'Ici" ("Tax crusade marches on the holy hotels"), Curzio Maltese, La Repubblica, 25 October 2007.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Texts of Slovak concordats and other Church-state documents. Basic Concordat (2000)". Concordat Watch. Translated by Holohan, David. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ostling, Richard N. (24 June 2001). "The Basilica in the Bush". Time.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Côte d'Ivoire - Agreement concerning the "International Foundation, Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro" (1992): text". Concordat Watch. Translated by Fraser, Muriel. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Concordat Watch - Concordat Strategy - What are Concordats?". www.concordatwatch.eu. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Mi'kmaq Spirituality and the Concordat of 1610" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- ^ Fredrik Nielsen, The History of the Papacy in the XIXth Century (London, 1906), p. 261
- ^ Concordat of 1851, Template:In lang
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Concordat between the Holy See and the Realm of Serbia in 1914 (between Pius X and Peter I) - Licodu". licodu.cois.it. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Salaville, Sévérien (4 May 2018). "Le Concordat de la Serbie avec le Saint-Siège (juin 1914-mars 1915)". Échos d'Orient. 17 (108): 459–468. doi:10.3406/rebyz.1915.4174.
- ^ a b René Metz, "What is Canon Law?" (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1960 [1st Edition]), pg. 138
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Barszczewska, Agnieszka (2001). "The Roman-Catholic Church and Its Influence on the Moldavian Csángó Identity in Greater Romania". In Barszczewska, Agnieszka; Peti, Lehel (eds.). Integrating Minorities: Traditional Communities and Modernization. The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities. p. 232. ISBN 978-606-92744-9-1.
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- ^ Concordat of 1953, Template:In lang
- ^ Concordato entre la Santa Sede y España Script error: No such module "webarchive"., [html], Vatican website; accessed 15 February 2017.
- ^ Concordat of 1954, Template:In lang
- ^ Concordato entre la Santa Sede y la República Dominicana, [html], Vatican website; accessed 14 January 2020.
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