Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain

10 PIOTR H. KOSICKI hand, the Baltic states lost their sovereignty entirely, subsumed as they were into the USSR as new Soviet “ ...

INTRODUCTION 11 When top Soviet Communist A. A. Zhdanov announced in 1947 that the world had split into “two camps”—one imperial ...

12 PIOTR H. KOSICKI his 1937 encyclical Divini redemptoris the “pernicious” influence of “bolshevistic, atheistic Communism” and ...

INTRODUCTION 13 priority over those of Italy and the papacy,”34 or—better yet— Catholicism would be reduced to the status of “a ...

14 PIOTR H. KOSICKI interventions against some of the most flagrant philo-Communist initiatives—like Czechoslovakia’s Peace Move ...

INTRODUCTION 15 pecially intent on protecting France and Italy. As Jonathan Lux- moore and Jolanta Babiuch have argued, “the gen ...

16 PIOTR H. KOSICKI tion of this “Eastern politics of the Vatican”: “defense of one’s own interests through confrontation where ...

INTRODUCTION 17 have argued, “The Council did not intend to produce a new doc- trinal ‘Summa’ (according to John XXIII, ‘that di ...

18 PIOTR H. KOSICKI though this volume does not hold fast to that binary, it repre- sents an immensely useful starting point. Th ...

INTRODUCTION 19 The volume thus understands Vatican II not merely as time spent by bishops, auditors, and periti in session in t ...

20 PIOTR H. KOSICKI the First Session, “So much that was decisive in the first ses- sion of the Second Vatican Council did not h ...

trust.”59 Pacem in terris was therefore about policy, but it made clear the Vatican’s newfound priority of dialogue, intended to ...

22 PIOTR H. KOSICKI can give is that of silence, suffering, patience, and unfailing love, and this is a voice that not even deat ...

INTRODUCTION 23 frame the chapter’s overview of the Cold War context surround- ing Vatican II—the arms race, the Cuban Missile C ...

24 PIOTR H. KOSICKI diplomatic relations in 1970, as well as the short-lived reformist “Croatian Spring.” Although a subsequent ...

INTRODUCTION 25 an emblematic case of the confrontation between tradition and modernity in a Catholic environment defined someti ...

26 PIOTR H. KOSICKI Special thanks are due to Jeffrey Rossman and Melissa J. Wilde. Árpád von Klimó helped to keep this project ...

ONE VATICAN II AND THE COLD WAR • • Gerald P. Fogarty On January 25, 1959, John XXIII, elected only three months ear- lier, st ...

28 GERALD P. FOGARTY fore the judgment seat of God.” Khrushchev noted that he was not afraid of “the judgment of God,” for, “as ...

VATICAN II AND THE COLD WAR 29 did the Osservatore Romano report this exchange of messages.3 In the course of this rapprochement ...