Fine del potere temporali dei Papi e diritto canonico

EnglishThe essay starts from the speech by Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Paul, 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 oh the Holy See. The conclusion is that the end of the temporal sovereignty of the Popes constituted a moment of regeneration (also) of canon law; it represented a very strong stimulus to the rediscovery and exaltation of ots most authentic nature serving the properly spiritual mission of the Church. italiano1. Un discorso di Giovanni Battista Montini in Campidoglio. - 2. Ragioni canonistiche di una resistenza. - 3. Una migliore distinzione tra Chiesa e comunita politica. - 4. De-temporalizzazione e riforma della Curia romana. - 5. De-temporalizzazione e codificazione canonica. - 6. Una nuova presenza nell'ordinamento internazionale. - 7. Conclusioni.