Abstrakt: | Family is a basic social unit, a subject of rights and duties. This enunciation, included
in no. 46 of the post‑synodal
Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris consortio — never ageing
and still the most important post‑conciliar
document of the papal de matrimonio ac
familia Magisterium — precedes a well‑known
announcement: The Holy See will undertake
the work of deepening the issues in question and will prepare the Charter of the
Rights of the Family (CRF). Analyses of this study, assuming a very broad doctrinal
range, refer not only to the “title” of articles 2 and 3 of the CRF, but also to points B, C,
D of the document’s preamble, which harmonize with their normative overtone. Therefore,
the structure of the study is as follows: 1. The origins of the family: “the free and
full [matrimonial] consent”; 2. Exclusiveness of the “the mission of transmitting life”:
the responsible parenthood; 3. Sovereignty of the family: protection/promotion of its
“inherent rights which are inalienable.” |