Il Concilio Vaticano II e i concordati

The Second Vatican Council did not give too much space to a discussion on the present and future fact of the Concordats. On one hand they were considered an indispensable instrument for the discipline of relations between Church and State; on the other hand, an in-depth discussion would have revealed the contradictions between some Concordats and the religious freedom approved by the Council. The effects of the Second Vatican Council would however be seen in the following decades, by concluding agreements which respected the Council’s decisions and set aside the myth of societas perfecta.