Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain

110 JAMES RAMON FELAK In keeping with the significant changes taking place in the Communist regime as it launched its “Socialism ...

VATICAN II AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA 111 relegalized; a new organization called the Dílo Koncilové Obno- va (Work of Conciliar Renewal) ...

112 JAMES RAMON FELAK From the Vatican’s perspective, Czechoslovakia now had a new set of personnel with whom it was not yet fam ...

VATICAN II AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA 113 The Catholic press and Catholic associations were brought under strict state control, as were ...

In the action program proclaimed at the congress, it noted the “insufficiently realized conclusions of the Council,” includ- ing ...

VATICAN II AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA 115 pressed concern over the organization’s growth, initiative, and “activization of the Church,” ...

116 JAMES RAMON FELAK Ministry’s opposition to granting it full independence, its opera- tion was not halted until June 1974. In ...

VATICAN II AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA 117 Mass, such as intercessory prayers and lay reading of the scrip- tures. As implementation of l ...

118 JAMES RAMON FELAK a vindication, of past efforts to foster worship in Bohemia in a Slavic language. Vatican II led to furthe ...

VATICAN II AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA 119 logue grew, and it became a regular part of Church life in the sec- ond half of the 1960s.43 T ...

120 JAMES RAMON FELAK in theory and practice, to develop a better understanding of the situation in which Czechoslovakia found i ...

VATICAN II AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA 121 published Naše víra (Our faith), which was actually a translation of the Frankfurt Catechism f ...

122 JAMES RAMON FELAK Christian interpretations of his message and to the teaching of the Church fathers. The White Book, the mo ...

VATICAN II AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA 123 tion as manifested under Dubček. Each tradition, in Skalický’s es- timation, represented a dif ...

124 JAMES RAMON FELAK founder could have respected. This was a Catholic Church in the process of renewal, seeking unity with oth ...

VATICAN II AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA 125 agement of Czech Catholics such as Zvěřina, as well as the Catholic Church’s Polish pope: John ...

126 JAMES RAMON FELAK Conclusions Coming a few years after Vatican II, but trying to do much the same for Czechoslovakia’s Commu ...

FIVE VATICAN II AND POLAND • • Piotr H. Kosicki Five decades after the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church’s place in ...

128 PIOTR H. KOSICKI fiftieth anniversary of Gaudium et spes, Apostolicam actuositatem, Dignitatis humanae, and the Council’s ot ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 129 sixteen documents produced by Vatican II were published in a bilingual Polish-Latin edition in 1968, t ...