La reforma del Registro de Entidades Religiosas y la realidad de la Iglesia Católica

Abstract

"Introduction" Royal Decree 594/2015 of 3 July 2015, which regulates the Register of Religious Entities, is the first reform of the Register of Religious Entities (RRE) since its implementation by Organic Law 7/1980 of 5 July 1980 on Religious Freedom and the subsequent Royal Decree 142/1981 of 9 January 1981 on the organisation and management of the Register of Religious Entities. The Spanish State recognises, in some ways, the age-old complexity of the internal legal structure of the Catholic Church by publishing the Resolution of 3 December 2015, of the Directorate General for International Legal Cooperation and Relations with Religions, on the registration of Catholic entities in the Register of Religious Entities, in a similar way to when it published the Resolution of 11 March 1982, of the Directorate General for Religious Affairs, on the registration of Catholic Church Entities in the Register of Religious Entities a year after the promulgation of RD 142/1981.These normative circumstances allow us to ask the question about whether the 2015 reform provides a sufficiently adequate response to the specific juridical structure of the Catholic Church and its complex reality; and, if the answer is affirmative, to determine which are the successes, problems and solutions...