Curtural Diversity

Italy’s Religious Culture

Like all democratic secular societies, Italy does not enforce religion on its citizens, and the country is made up of many different belief systems Italy's Constitution Adopted 139 articles on December 22, 1947. Much like ours it states:
Article 8: states
1. All religious denominations are equally free before the law.
2. Religious denominations other than Catholic are entitled to organize themselves according to their own Creed provided that they are not in conflict with Italian juridical organization
3. Their relations with the States are regulated by law on the basis of agreements with their respective representatives.
Article 19: states
All are entitled to freely profess their religious convictions in any form, individually or in associations, to propagate them, and to celebrate them in public or in private, save in the case of rites contrary to morality.
In today’s Italian culture, the principles of religion are not synonymous w...