Libertà religiosa e pandemia: verso un nuovo paradigma di relazioni tra Stato e confessioni religiose?

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted on all aspects of our lives, affecting various freedoms and rights, including religious freedom. The fundamental core of this freedom, namely the individual, public and collective exercise of worship, which was indeed likened to attending a theatre or cinema performance, was eroded, first by preventing and then restricting religious celebrations. In the absence of a framework law on religious freedom that could constitute the legal basis for an agreed discipline, the stipulation of memoranda of understanding between the Italian government and six religious denominations, following a collective online meeting, appears to suggest a different way of understanding the bilateral system in our pluralist and multicultural society.