Zan-Vaticano bill, here is the full text of the note verbale of the Secretariat of State

Ddl Zan, here is the full text of the verbal note with which the Vatican Secretariat of State requested the intervention of the Italian government to modify the bill aimed at stemming homotransphobia. “The Secretariat of State, – reads the note verbale in the possession of the Adnkronos – section for Relations with States, pays distinct respects to the Excellency Embassy of Italy and has the honor of referring to the draft law No. 2005, containing “measures to prevent and combat discrimination and violence for reasons based on sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability”, the text of which has already been approved from the Chamber of Deputies on November 4, 2020 and is currently being examined by the Senate of the Republic “. “In this regard – explains the note delivered last June 17 to the Italian embassy to the Holy See – the Secretariat of State notes that some contents of the legislative initiative – particularly in the part in which the criminalization of discriminatory conduct is established for reasons ‘based on sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity’ – would have the effect of negatively affecting the freedoms guaranteed to the Catholic Church and its faithful by the current concordat regime. ecclesiastical traditions of the authentic magisterium of the Pope and of the bishops, which consider sexual difference, according to an anthropological perspective that the Catholic Church does not consider available because it derives from divine revelation itself “.” This perspective is in fact guaranteed by the Agreement between the Holy See and the Italian Republic of Review of the Lateran Concordat, signed on February 18, 1984. Specifically, – observes the note – in article 2, paragraph 1, it is stated that ‘the Italian Republic recognizes full freedom to the Catholic Church to carry out its pastoral, educational and charitable mission, of evangelization and sanctification. In particular, the freedom of organization, of the public exercise of worship, of the exercise of the magisterium and of the spiritual ministry, as well as of jurisdiction in ecclesiastical matters, is assured to the Church ‘. In article 2, paragraph 3, it is further stated that ‘full freedom of assembly and expression of thought is guaranteed to Catholics and their associations and organizations, by word, by writing and by any other means of dissemination’ “. The Secretariat of State hopes “therefore that the Italian Party will be able to take into due consideration the above arguments and find a different modulation of the legislative text on the basis of the agreements that regulate relations between State and Church and to which the Republican Constitution itself reserves a special mention. The Secretariat of State, Section for Relations with States, avails itself of the occasion to renew to the Excellency the Embassy of Italy the assurance of its high consideration “.