INSTANȚELE DE JUDECATĂ ECLEZIASTICĂ CA FORMĂ DE MANIFESTARE A LIBERTĂȚII RELIGIOASE
The Ecclesiastical Courts as a Form of Manifestation of Religious Freedom

Summary/Abstract: The state guarantees the freedom of conscience of citizens, freedom that is manifested by their right to think freely, to have their own opinions, political choices or religious beliefs. The public manifestation of a religious belief is part of the fundamental right to human dignity. The organization and functioning of religious communities in Romania, in a very well defined legal and social framework, takes place in the spirit of the autonomy of the cults towards the state and its neutrality towards the religious communities. The autonomy of religious denominations is guaranteed by the state by recognizing the right of legally recognized religious communities to have their own rules of ecclesiastical law and to apply them through their own courts. The state thus recognizes the finality of the decisions of the courts of religious cults in the case of membership of the cult and in the case of sanctions applied to the clergy.

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