Legge fondamentale dello Stato della Città del Vaticano

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Where this source is used

• Canon 331 describes the Roman Pontiff's supreme ecclesial office, while Vatican Fundamental Law separately identifies the same officeholder as sovereign of the state; the two jurisdictions should not be collapsed.

  • supports · article 1

• Vatican City's 2023 constitutional design places ultimate legislative, executive, and judicial authority in the Pope, whose eligibility derives from a religious office, while ordinary functions are delegated to distinct state organs; the placement does not classify Catholic people or Christianity.

  • supports · articles 1 and 7–21

• The 2023 Fundamental Law delegates ordinary legislative and executive functions to state organs while reserving the Pope's plenitude of governmental power and allowing him to reserve matters.

  • supports · articles 1 and 7–21

• Articles 10 through 13 assign executive functions to the President of the Governorate under the law's specified structure and reporting duties.

  • supports · articles 10–13

• Article 21 provides that judicial power is exercised in the name of the Supreme Pontiff by organs constituted under Vatican judicial law.

  • supports · article 21

• As enacted in 2023, Articles 7 and 8 assigned legislative power to the Pontifical Commission except in matters reserved to the Pope and specified a Cardinal President and other Cardinals appointed for five-year terms; the membership rule was replaced in November 2025.

  • supports · articles 7–8 as promulgated 13 May 2023

• Article 1 of the 2023 Fundamental Law states that the Supreme Pontiff, sovereign of Vatican City State, possesses the fullness of governmental power, including legislative, executive, and judicial power.

  • supports · article 1