Table of contents

1. Introduction. Foundations of banking origin, intermediary subjects of the "third sector" with statutory aims close to those pursued by religious bodies - 2. The functional relationship between "social freedoms" and religious freedom found in the statutory activity of banking foundations - 3. The reaffirmation of the identifying criteria of intermediary subjects and the space for the unconditional exercise of "social freedoms": the centrality of the individual - 4. The points of emphasis in the Constitutional Court's pronouncements nos. 300 and 301 of 24 September 2003 on banking foundations: overlap between purposes of religious interest and the institutional activities of the body. Intangibility of the private nature of banking foundations and statutory purposes - 5. Conclusions