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155 Law & Just. - Christian L. Rev. 137 (2005)
The Maintenance of Clergy in the Italian Catholic Church

handle is hein.journals/ljusclr155 and id is 55 raw text is: THE MAINTENANCE OF CLERGY IN THE ITALIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH CRISTIANA CIANITTO Today's system of maintenance of the clergy is the result of a long historical and juridical process, the final phase of which can be found in the 1960's. Paragraph 20 of the Presbyterorum Ordinis decree, which was proclaimed at the end of Vatican Council II, required the abolition of the old beneficial system, or at least its radical reform. It was recommended that diocesan institutions be created in order to provide the clergy with maintenance through managing the old beneficial possessions. The Church wanted to go back to the origins, to the indistinct property mass characteristic of the ancient Christian communities, in order to leave all clerics free to exercise their own ministry without any worry about their personal finances. These proposals of the Council were only finally accomplished with the bringing into force of the new Code of Canon Law in 1983 and with the revision of the Concordat with the Italian State in 1984. The new system consequently is set out in the L. 222/1985, in which the modifications of the Concordat are put into effect. This not only takes note of the reform which occurred inside the canonical environment, with the new Code of 1983, but also integrates and introduces innovations into canonical discipline by creating financing channels not foreseen by reform of the codes and further organisms unknown to the counciliar project, too. Sources of money for maintenance of the clergy The sources for the maintenance are three: Incomes deriving from the administration of ex-beneficial properties; 8%. Irpefl assignments; (i.e. 8 out of a thousand). Deducible offers. The Irpef is the Italian income tax that all Italians have to pay if they are liable to taxation and if they earn more than a certain minimum income.

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