DE INJERENCIAS Y AUTONOMÍAS: LOS ACUERDOS ENTRE EL ESTADO Y LA SANTA SEDE EN ARGENTINA

The Concordats between States and the Vatican are international legal instruments aimed at regulating relations between the civil power and the Catholic Church. Historically, the signing of these pacts has allowed to link intervention areas of political power and Catholic Church. It has also enabled to distinguish the Catholic institution from other religious organizations present in the national territories. In this paper, we will review the variety of treaties negotiated between the countries and the Holy See; in a following step, we will analyze the Argentinian case. The agreement between the Argentine government and the Vatican, signed in 1966, had the peculiarity of canceling the interference of the civil power in ecclesiastical field. This Concordat ensures full autonomy of the Catholic Church, without affecting its privileges as ‘officious’ national worship, derived from the Patronage Regime and the symbiotic relationship between the State and the religious institution.