Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain

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The Catholic University of America Press Washington, D.C. VATICAN II BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN EditEd by Piotr H. KosicKi ...

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CONTENTS vii Abbreviations • • 1 Introduction Piotr H. Kosicki 27 One – Vatican II and the Cold War Gerald P. Fogarty 50 Two – ...

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ABBREVIATIONS AAN Archiwum Akt Nowych (Archive of Modern Records, Warsaw) ABH Arhiv Bosna i Hercegovine (Archives of Bosnia and ...

viii ABBREVIATIONS MP Member of Parliament OSA Open Society Archives (Budapest) PZPR Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (Polis ...

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1 INTRODUCTION • • Piotr H. Kosicki The announcement of the Council aroused great interest and great hope. It seemed that, aft ...

2 PIOTR H. KOSICKI aggiornamento, or updating, of the Roman Catholic Church, what became known as the Second Vatican Council soo ...

INTRODUCTION 3 Based on responses to questionnaires circulated to dioceses and Catholic organizations all over the world in 1959 ...

4 PIOTR H. KOSICKI took greater account of the world around it than any previous council and assumed as one of its principal tas ...

INTRODUCTION 5 ing witness to the Gospels under an openly anti-religious, Com- munist regime—and John XXIII’s Church of aggiorna ...

6 PIOTR H. KOSICKI representative—and inaccurate—is the blanket assertion that “inside these countries there was no possibility ...

INTRODUCTION 7 Croat, Hungarian, or Slovak, Catholics behind the Iron Curtain learned about the Second Vatican Council and respo ...

8 PIOTR H. KOSICKI historical sociology of movement formation, and it also draws heavily on the national historiographies of the ...

INTRODUCTION 9 Both Czechoslovakia and Poland had a higher percentage of Catholics at the war’s end than at its beginning. Prote ...