Abstract

The text delves, from both a theoretical and practical point of view, into the thesis that all the sources of Italian civil ecclesiastical law – whether unilateral, bilateral or plurilateral, by constitutional necessity or widespread negotiation – deserve to be equally cared for and safeguarded, since they share the same democratic objective of guaranteeing effective satisfaction to the majority of the demands for religious freedom advanced by individuals and groups, at the given historical moment, on the territory of our republic, in both negative and positive forms