Andrea Bettetini
1. L'orizzonte giuridico della Chiesa, tra giustizia e misericordia. - 2. La misericordia quale limite e perfezione alia giustizia e al diritto. - 3. L'interpretazione "misericordiosa" del diritto quale "via migliore di tutte"
Moving from the bull Misericordiae Vultus and the Apostolic Letter Misericordia et misera of Pope Francis, the Author demonstrates how mercy not only presupposes justice, but mercy is and becomes a mean to enforcing justice. The Christian notion of justice goes beyond the classical notion, understanding and elevating the suum on the basis of an ontologically superior order principle, to charity, understood, in the words of a Father of the Church, as principatus iustitiae, the guiding principle of the same justice.