Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain

In response, Draganović and other émigré-priests started criticizing not only the Holy See, but also the Yugoslav bishops. The l ...

VATICAN II AND YUGOSLAVIA 91 secuted Croatia.” He called on the Croat bishops “not to trample on our centuries-old traditions or ...

92 IVO BANAC from the printing of the Zagreb Bible (in 1968, in a first edition of 60,000 copies, by the state publishing house ...

VATICAN II AND YUGOSLAVIA 93 logian, famously preached. The Movement of Croat University Students (Pokret Hrvatskih Sveučilištar ...

94 IVO BANAC the 1967–71 Croatian equivalent of the Prague Spring, would have been impressive even without the Catholic surge. B ...

VATICAN II AND YUGOSLAVIA 95 tional colors, attempting to nationalize their history. Croat party leaders like Savka Dabčević-Kuč ...

96 IVO BANAC this does not mean that Christians can be outside their ethnos and nation, that they can be without interest or res ...

VATICAN II AND YUGOSLAVIA 97 members of the Croat Party organization, encompassing arrests and severe sentences for notable figu ...

98 IVO BANAC The Second Vatican Council and its immediate effects coin- cided with an abrupt end to ambitious reformist aspirati ...

FOUR VATICAN II AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA • • James Ramon Felak The year 1962 was a crucial year in the two-millennium history of the ...

100 JAMES RAMON FELAK would eschew a ghetto mentality, seeking to share “the joy and hope, the grief and anguish of the men and ...

VATICAN II AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA 101 elite-driven, with new forces among the party leadership emerg- ing in the course of the 1960s ...

102 JAMES RAMON FELAK fessional life in Czechoslovakia need to be explained. First, with respect to confessional life, the Czech ...

VATICAN II AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA 103 The years of the Second Vatican Council saw the resumption of negotiations between the Holy Se ...

104 JAMES RAMON FELAK ceses—including Prague—were without a bishop or even an apos- tolic administrator. The regime asserted its ...

VATICAN II AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA 105 (of a total of fifteen consecrated bishops in the country). They were accompanied by a dozen c ...

106 JAMES RAMON FELAK support for freedom of conscience and to demand that govern- ments stop suppressing religious freedom. He ...

VATICAN II AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA 107 Church staunchly resisted. The government, meanwhile, blocked the implementation of many conci ...

108 JAMES RAMON FELAK man Rights in its treatment of religious believers and called for “a genuine dialogue with Marxists, which ...

VATICAN II AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA 109 renewal of male and female religious orders and amends for the harm done to them; restoration ...