Keywords
Sistema jurídico-canónico y nuevos retos pastorales, derecho a los sacramentos, discapacidad intelectual, right to sacraments, intellectual disability
Persona con discapacidad intelectual y derecho a los sacramentos
Abstract
En este artículo se pretende abordar una reflexión acerca de la modulación concreta que adquiere el derecho a los sacramentos de las personas con discapacidad intelectual en la Iglesia católica1.En relación al septenario sacramental clásico en la Iglesia, es decir, los sacramentos del Bautismo, Confirmación, Eucaristía2 (los tres sacramentos de iniciación cristiana), el sacramento de la Penitencia y de la Reconciliación, la Unción de enfermos (los sacramentos de curación) y, finalmente, los sacramentos del Orden y del Matrimonio (los sacramentos al servicio de la comunidad), no en todos ni del mismo modo se puede hablar de un derecho a los sacramentos ni son las mismas las condiciones de acceso a los mismos. El acercamiento de este artículo a la relación entre personas con discapacidad intelectual e Iglesia católica se hace, por tanto, desde un enfoque jurídico, enfoque que hace emerger la dimensión pastoral siempre presente en el Derecho canónico (c. 1752 CIC: « [ ]teniendo en cuenta la salvación de las almas, que debe ser siempre la ley suprema en la Iglesia»).
This article reflects on the specific features of the right to sacraments of people with intellectual disabilities in the Catholic Church. With regards to the seven classic sacraments, namely Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist (the three sacraments of Christian Initiation), Penance and Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick (the sacraments of healing) and Holy Orders and Matrimony (the sacraments of service to the community), we cannot speak of a right to all of the sacraments or in the same way for all of them, and the conditions for accessing them are not the same.This article therefore, approaches the question of people with intellectual disabilities and the Catholic Church from a legalistic position, a position that makes apparent the pastoral dimension that is ever-present in canon law (Can. 1752 CIC: [ ] the salvation of souls, which must always be the supreme law in the Church, is to be kept before one s eyes
This article reflects on the specific features of the right to sacraments of people with intellectual disabilities in the Catholic Church. With regards to the seven classic sacraments, namely Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist (the three sacraments of Christian Initiation), Penance and Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick (the sacraments of healing) and Holy Orders and Matrimony (the sacraments of service to the community), we cannot speak of a right to all of the sacraments or in the same way for all of them, and the conditions for accessing them are not the same.This article therefore, approaches the question of people with intellectual disabilities and the Catholic Church from a legalistic position, a position that makes apparent the pastoral dimension that is ever-present in canon law (Can. 1752 CIC: [ ] the salvation of souls, which must always be the supreme law in the Church, is to be kept before one s eyes
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