Folia Theologica et Canonica 5. 27/19 (2016)

IUS CANONICUM - Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi, O.Praem., The religious dimension of education as one the primary principles of religious freedom based on human dignity

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- the relation to God, to persons, and to the society - gives proper responsibility for the states and even for the denominations in the common work and cooperation for the moral and cultural value of the human society which naturally has civil and religious aspects. The state cannot neglect the fact that the religious beliefs are part of most of its citizens’ natural characteristics, and from the exercise of which obligations devolve on the state.31 This basic concept can be demonstrated well by § 10 (1) Act CCVI/2011 of Hungary which clearly expresses, that the state in order to promote the common goals of the society can cooperate with the Churches. This is eminently true regarding the educational, medical, and social activity of the different denominations.32 Joseph Schweitzer (1*2015; former Chief-Rabbi of whole Hungary) emphasized in 2006 that even an economical or basically political organization needs to manifest ethical values if we liked to speak seriously about a real respect of human rights and religious freedom.33 Similar clear conviction follows from Joseph Ratzinger’s comments (published in 1987)34 and from statements of representatives of the Hungarian Reformed Church, which analyze values in our contemporary society, in which the family should have an eminent place in social and religious context.35 Therefore, the religious sphere and the faithful activity of the churches, denominations, etc. have a fundamental impact on the formation of the human values of the concrete society as a community of people, which aspects support the needy of their special protection.36 This idea shows well the essential difference between the “laicism” and the “neutral” concepts, the latter of which is ready for cooperation with denominations in order to fulfill the basic human right for religious freedom of the state own citizens. 11

11 Szuromi, Sz. A.. Legislazione successiva alla transformazione dei rapporti tra Chiesa e Stato nell’Europa centro-orientale, in lus Missionale 9 (2015) 213-224, especially 221-224.

32 Cf. Schanda. B„ Aliami egyházjog. Vallásszabadság és vallási közösségek a mai magyar jogban [Ecclesiastical Law. Religious Freedom and Religious Communities in the Hungarian Law), Budapest 2012. 78-84. Szuromi, Sz. A. - Ferenczy, R., Kérdések az. állami egyházjog köréből, 36—38,45-46.

33 Schweitzer, J. Jewish values in the European Union, in The Epoch of Crisis of the Classical Categories, in Vtzi, E. Sz. - Kucsera, T. G. (ed.), Europe in a Work! in Transformation (Conference at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 14lh— 16"' December 2006), Budapest 2008. 129— 134, especially 129.

34 Ratzinger, J., Chiesa, ecumenismo e politica. Nuovi saggi di ecclesiologia (Saggi Teologici 1 ), Cinisello Balsamo 1987. 202-204.

35 Lukáts, A., A Dunántúli Református Egyházkerület és az EU csatlakozás, in Egyházakkal az Európai Unióba (A 2003. április 28-án Esztergomban tartott konferencia előadásai; Párbeszéd I), 25-30, especially 28; cf. Szabó, L, Reformation and Transformation, in Vízi, E. Sz. - Kucsera, T. G. (ed.), Europe in a World in Transformation, 135-138.

36 Cf. Munono Muyembe, B., Le bien commun et la diaconie: service de TÉglise dans la société. Possobles formes de coopération en vue d'un bien-étre integrál de la personae humaine, in Church and State relations: from Historical and Theological Perspectives, 191-198.