Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain

70 ÁRPÁD VON KLIMÓ ing the actual power of the state apparatus, and it rests on the assumption that the documents released by th ...

VATICAN II AND HUNGARY 71 general under any Communist dictatorship, access to these docu- ments was surely not the main obstacle ...

72 ÁRPÁD VON KLIMÓ The most difficult question concerns the impact that the Coun- cil had on believers, since we have very few s ...

VATICAN II AND HUNGARY 73 groups, there was a great demand for religious communal life, as well as a large number of offerings, ...

74 ÁRPÁD VON KLIMÓ the center of these groups was the communal teaching and learn- ing of theological and practical Christian wi ...

THREE VATICAN II AND YUGOSLAVIA • • Ivo Banac The Second Vatican Council was not only a turning point in the history of the Ro ...

76 IVO BANAC vodina and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with their significant Cath- olic population, was hit hard by the Communist revo ...

VATICAN II AND YUGOSLAVIA 77 Despite their checkered and controversial experience, aimed at undermining the authority of the Cat ...

78 IVO BANAC Italy for the overseas countries.7 The postwar refugee wave was over by the end of the 1950s: as a result, first th ...

VATICAN II AND YUGOSLAVIA 79 vember 3, 1960, with an affirmative letter in which he noted that the “normalization of relations w ...

80 IVO BANAC the Discipline of the Sacraments and on the Preparatory Cen- tral Commission, and he was elected a member of the Th ...

VATICAN II AND YUGOSLAVIA 81 ats and Catholics.”15 He begged “our Orthodox brethren to forgive us just as crucified Christ forga ...

82 IVO BANAC longed, from the new generation that lives “in the world of im- age and the domination of associational thought.”18 ...

VATICAN II AND YUGOSLAVIA 83 the struggle to prevent the Church from becoming again a hand- maid of the state, the struggle to p ...

84 IVO BANAC tion.23 In fact, the effects of the Council tested the authorities’ capacity for investment in conciliar normalizat ...

VATICAN II AND YUGOSLAVIA 85 “Letter of a Village Parish Priest,” in which the various foibles of the regime were exposed to rid ...

86 IVO BANAC nationality question at the apex of power. Two blocs emerged— unitarist-centralists and federalists—who contended f ...

VATICAN II AND YUGOSLAVIA 87 formal and remained at the level of the Yugoslav embassy council- or in Rome (Nikola Mandić) and th ...

88 IVO BANAC 1966, was less formal than an agreement, did not define the legal position of the Church in the state, and mainly a ...

VATICAN II AND YUGOSLAVIA 89 (It was revealed after the Brioni meeting that the UDB-a kept 1.3 million personal dossiers in Croa ...