Volontariato, cooperazione sociale e mondo cattolico nell’Italia repubblicana: contributo ad un inquadramento storico-culturale (1945-1991)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the main trajectories that led Italian Catholicism to commit itself to the institutional recognition of volunteering (law 266/1991) and social cooperation (law 381/1991). The contribution aims to analyze the impact exerted by the openings of the Second Vatican Council and some of the trajectories that subsequently prompted the discussion within Parliament, helping to historicize the internal orientations of the Catholic world on the construction of the welfare system of republican Italy.