VJERSKA SLOBODA U ZAKONIKU KANONSKOGA PRAVA I U ZAKONODAVSTVU RH
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE CODE OF CANON LAW AND THE LEGISLATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: Man as a rational being, fulfills himself and his existence through the categories of space and time; space in a social and religious community and at a specific point of time in which he lives. Because, by his nature, he seeks to fulfill himself in the fullness, both communities – social and religious – have a great responsibility to help him, especially through certain legal expressions by which they guarantee and give him the rights to achieve it. One of those rights is freedom of religion and to profess that religion. Therefore, this article seeks to outline all these legal ways in which man – person – believer – has the freedom and the right to profess his religious beliefs and to live according to his conscience, and according to the canonical norms or the state laws. The first part of the paper deals with the legislation of the Catholic Church and its legal regulation of the freedom of expression and living personal and mutual faith. The second part examines the Republic of Croatia’s approach to religious freedom in general, expressed in particular laws and acts, and also areas in which religious communities that are present on its territory can freely act.

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