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Article: Slovakia embraces the past. (Catholic Church's influence) (Cover Story)
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- Commonweal
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- September 24, 1993
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The Catholic church in what is now Slovakia has historically been associated with the suppression of liberty. Monsignor Jozef Tiso's attempt to create a theocratic Nazi puppet state in 1939 ultimately failed and the church fell easy prey to the Communist revolution in 1948. After forty years of Communist indoctrination, the perception of the church as reactionary would have been hard to erase; instead it is now being reinforced.
The majority of Catholics who clung to their religion in postwar Czechoslovakia regarded their church primarily as a refuge and remained psychologically in a pre-Vatican II time warp. Most priests were selected by state officials for ...
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