Giuseppe Della Torre

The essay starts from the speech by Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Paul VI, on the “providentiality” of the end of the Papal States in 1870, to capture some effects of this event on the developments of the canonical legal order. Attention is focused in particular on the following effects: a better distinction between Church and political community, on the reform of the Roman Curia, on canonical codification, on the international subjectivity of the Holy See...