Abstract

The article focuses on the issue of bilaterality forty years after the Villa Madama Agreements. The focus is particularly on the Catholic Church without forgetting the other confessions. The contribution does not summarise all the agreements, at several levels, between the State and the Catholic Church nor the agreements with the other confessions. Rather, it starts from a general observation of the evolution of bilaterality, to analyse that in the time of Covid as a paradigmatic example of its evolution, and concludes, in the face of the pressure of unilateral acts of the State, on the need for such acts to be coordinated by a law on religious freedom in order to prevent the favor religionis from giving way to the favor libertatis