I CAN'T BE SILENT: THE DAY WHEN CRIMINAL LAW DISCOVERED THAT IT WAS BORN IN THE SACRESTY

He who remains silent cannot affirm with systematic enthusiasm: «modern criminal law - of which, moreover, canon law is a precursor in many aspects […] - distinguishes between the fact and the responsibility".

—Hypatia's cogitatory—

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I'm asking for a friendly cat, this time not from the city but with a fair amount of legal reading behind him, who asks whether the entire manual should really be updated to adapt it to the latest discovery of those who cannot remain silent and who for this reason affirms with systematic enthusiasm: «modern criminal law - of which, moreover, canon law is a precursor in many aspects […] - distinguishes between the fact and the responsibility" (cf.. see article who).

Now, the cat in question, who did not attend either the Alma Mater Studiorum or the Lateran University, but it still distinguishes, with a certain obstinacy of times gone by, between common law, Roman law and modern codifications, he asks if he missed something: if Cesare Beccaria, Ludwig Feuerbach and the entire modern criminal law construction must be reread as an appendix of the ecclesiastical forum, perhaps waiting for an amended reprint of the manuals, or whether it is not better to distinguish between historical contributions and systematic genealogies, avoiding easy enthusiasms of fatherhood.

Because it is one thing to recognize that medieval canon law, starting from the great Bolognese Glossators, has affected certain institutions such as imputability, intention, procedure; it is another thing to attribute to it a paternity function, even more so if you even try to mock between the lines other jurists.

The use of the category of «forerunner» even when attenuated by vague formulas such as "in many respects", ends up suggesting a systematic continuity that the history of law does not allow us to support regarding what arises within the crisis of the confessional state and the legal development of the modern age, as if the history of law were a straight line and not a complex stratification.

The cat, confused but not completely clueless, it is therefore limited to a simple question, formulated with due feline prudence: if this is really the principle, perhaps it would not be appropriate to warn the law faculties before they continue to teach the history of criminal law in a way that is now hopelessly outdated, also suggesting the wise reading of the pearls of wisdom of those who cannot remain silent? We must therefore take note of a fact: if the criterion is the "forerunner" one, then modern criminal law was born in the sacristy.

This world full of "unsolved", as those who cannot remain silent like to repeat …

From the island of Patmos, 30 April 2026

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Our previous articles (2023-2026):

– 28 June 2026 — SILERE NON POSSUM AND THE RAINBOW AS A TROJAN HORSE. WHEN THE FIGHT AGAINST ABUSE BECOMES THE PRETEXT TO REWRITE CATHOLIC MORALS (To open the article click WHO)

– 22 June 2026 — Press release: THE ISLAND OF PATMOS SUBJECT TO REPEATED UNFOUNDED REPORTS (To open the article click WHO)

– 11 June 2026 — MARCO PERFETTI: TELLING ME THAT I AM A PROBLEMATIC IS AS OBVIOUS AS SAYING THAT MADDALENA WAS A PROSTITUTE (To open the article click WHO)

– 5 May 2026 — ESTONIA, A PROMISED LAND, A DIFFERENT WORLD... AND A DAILY BADNESS OF THOSE WHO CANNOT BE SILENT (To open the article click WHO)

– 30 April 2026 — I CAN'T BE SILENT: THE DAY WHEN CRIMINAL LAW DISCOVERED THAT IT WAS BORN IN THE SACRESTY (To open the article click WHO)

– 27 April 2026 — WHY IN THIS CASE "I CAN KEEP SILENT"? (To open the article click WHO)

– 31 March 2026 — THE MALIGNANT NARCISSIST AND THE USE OF BLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA TO CAUSE DAMAGE TO THE CHURCH AND ITS FAITHFUL SERVANTS (To open the article click WHO)

– 21 March 2026 — THE ABBOT OF SOLESMES AND THE ILLUSION OF LITURGICAL SYNTHESIS: BETWEEN SUBJECTIVISM AND DOCTrinal CONFUSION (To open the article click WHO)

– 28 February 2026 — I CAN'T BE SILENT. AN EXTRAORDINARY MARCO PERFETTI BETWEEN CONFIDENT CANON LAW AND «SCANDAL IN THE SUN»: THE DECEASED AUGUST SAID THAT HOMOSEXUALITY IS A SIN (To open the article click WHO)

– 16 February 2026 — DONNE, LAW AND THEOLOGY USED AS A SLOGAN BY THE SILERE NON POSSUM BLOG (To open the article click WHO)

– 8 February 2026 — THE ATTORNEYS OF ITACA AND THE EPIC OF THE ENFORCEMENT THAT CANNOT BE SILENT (To open the article click WHO)

– 10 December 2025 — MARCO PERFETTI, I CANNOT SILENCE OTHERS: THE CULTURED CRICKET AND THE MOSQUITO THAT THINKS IT IS A GOLDEN EAGLE (To open the article click WHO)

– 6 September 2025 — IL MIGHTY SILENCE I CAN'T STAND DOING GOOGLE SHAKES (To open the article click WHO)

– 16 August 2025 — I CAN'T BE SILENT And that word taboo that he just can't pronounce: "HOMOSEXUALITY" (To open the article click WHO)

– 14 August 2025 — There is a homosexual? AT THAT TIME I CAN'T BE SILENT Also defends the indefensible (To open the article click WHO)

– 29 March 2025 — Always about I CAN'T BE SILENT: DAL “Vertical man"A" Fireculo "and" quadhow "of Leonardo Sciascia (To open the article click WHO)

– 21 March 2025 — I CAN'T BE SILENT And the story of that convinced seamstress that he can give Giorgio Armani high fashion lessons (To open the article click WHO)

– 12 February 2025 — The Opossum is to the knowledge of the Vatican as Henger is in chastity and like his deceased husband Riccardo Schicchi is at work Confessions OF SAINT AUGUSTINE (To open the article click WHO)

– 15 January 2025 — AT THE CLERICAL BORDERS WITH REALITY: THE WOMAN SUFFERS FROM FREUDIAN PENIS ENVY, The Opossum of the envy by Matteo Bruni Director of the Press Room of the Holy See (To open the article click WHO)

– 20 January 2025 — THE OPOSSUM IGNORE THAT A NUN CAN QUIETLY BECOME GOVERNOR OF THE VATICAN CITY STATE, As already was Giulio Sacchetti (To open the article click WHO)

– 22 November 2024 — THE EPISCOPAL APPOINTMENT OF RENATO TARANTELLI BACCARI. WHEN YOU ARE AFFECTED BY LIVER CANCER, THEY CHARGE ON THE ATTACK THOSE WHO CANNOT BE SILENT (To open the article click WHO)

– 31 May 2024 — A NOTE FROM FATHER ARIEL ON THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT: «AS ANNOYING AS A SEA URCHIN INSIDE YOUR UNDERPANTS» (To open the article click WHO)

– 8 December 2023 — WHO IS MARCO FELIPE PERFETTI REFERRING TO STATING FROM THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT «HERE IN THE VATICAN… WE IN THE VATICAN…», IF YOU CANNOT EVEN SET FOOT IN THE VATICAN? (To open the article click WHO)

– 14 October 2023 — THE ARCHABOT EMERITUS OF MONTECASSINO PIETRO VITTORELLI HAS DEAD: CHRISTIAN PIETY CAN ERASE THE SAD TRUTH? (To open the article click WHO)

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