{"id":2525,"date":"2019-06-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oikonomia.it\/?post_type=articolo&p=2525"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:30:11","slug":"the-legitimate-and-healthy-laicite-of-the-state-an-introduction-to-the-texts-from-a-commemorative-conference","status":"publish","type":"articolo","link":"https:\/\/www.oikonomia.it\/en\/2019\/giugno\/the-legitimate-and-healthy-laicite-of-the-state-an-introduction-to-the-texts-from-a-commemorative-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legitimate and Healthy \u201cLa\u00efcit\u00e9\u201d of the State. An Introduction to the Texts from a Commemorative Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, 6 December 2018, the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Pontifical University of St Thomas (Angelicum), in cooperation with the Centre d\u2019\u00c9tudes du Saulchoir (CES, Paris) and the Agence Internationale Diplomatie et Opinion Publique (AIDOP, Paris), held an international commemorative academic conference on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the address of Pope Pius XII, delivered in Rome on 23 March 1958. This allocution at the \u201cColony of the\u00a0Marches<\/em>\u201d explicitly employed the Roman Catholic social doctrine of the principle of a \u201clegitimate and healthy\u00a0la\u00efcit\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0of the State\u201d in the following famous passage:<\/p>\n

There are people who act because they fear that Christianity takes from Caesar that which is Caesar\u2019s\u2014as if giving to Caesar that which belongs to him were not a commandment of Jesus, as if\u00a0the legitimate and healthy \u201cla\u00efcit\u00e9\u201d of the State<\/em>\u00a0were not one of the principles of Catholic doctrine, as if it were not a tradition of the Church to continually endeavour to maintain as distinct and yet always united the just principles, the two Powers.1<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is on the basis of this passage that we proceed.<\/p>\n

Let us thank:<\/p>\n