(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 09 - A classroom "can welcome the presence of the crucifix when the school community concerned independently evaluates and decides to exhibit it, possibly accompanying it with the symbols of other confessions present in the class and in any case seeking a reasonable accommodation between any different positions ". This is what the Court of Cassation established (sentence no. 24414, published today) which, at the United Sections, dealt with the posting of the crucifix in school classrooms.
In particular, the question examined by the Supreme Court concerned the compatibility between the display order of the crucifix, given by the head teacher of a state professional institute on the basis of a resolution taken by the majority of the class assembly of students, and the freedom of conscience in religious matters of the teacher. who wanted to do his lessons without the religious symbol hanging on the wall. The Court affirmed that the provision of the regulation of the 1920s - which all governs the matter, in the absence of a law of Parliament - is liable to be interpreted in a sense consistent with the Constitution. "The classroom can welcome the presence of the crucifix when the school community concerned - explains the Supreme Court - evaluates and decides independently to exhibit it,possibly accompanying it with the symbols of other confessions present in the class and in any case seeking a reasonable accommodation between any different positions ". (ANSA).