Connecting Catholics in a Divided World: The Vatican and the Local Roman and Greek Catholic Church in Eastern Europe as an Intermediary in the Cold War (1945–1978)

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Connecting Catholics in a Divided World: The Vatican and the Local Roman and Greek Catholic Church in Eastern Europe as an Intermediary in the Cold War (1945–1978)

Veranstalter
Collegium Carolinum München; DHI Rom; DHI Warschau; Max Weber Stiftung
PLZ
81669
Ort
München
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
Hybrid
Vom - Bis
03.05.2024 - 04.05.2024
Von
Marion Dotter, Collegium Carolinum München

World War II ended for Pope Pius XII with an ambivalent result: the Holy See was widely regarded as a reinvigorated institution of peaceful reconstruction, but the pontifex was confronted with the fact that communism, with its repressive church policy, had penetrated far into the Catholic heart of Europe.

Connecting Catholics in a Divided World: The Vatican and the Local Roman and Greek Catholic Church in Eastern Europe as an Intermediary in the Cold War (1945–1978)

Former strongholds of the Catholic faith like Poland, Slovakia and Croatia were now governed by atheist ideologues who regarded the Catholic Church with suspicion or outright contempt. Nearly everywhere in East-Central and Southeastern Europe, the Church subsequently came under immense pressure and faced tough questions on how to deal with these new regimes. This workshop aims to comprehensively examine the diverse actors within the Catholic Church's complex tapestry during the communist era in Eastern Europe. By embracing a multi-dimensional lens, we seek to show the interactions and contributions of various stakeholders within the Church. We are therefore particularly interested in exploring the entanglements, cooperation, and conflicts among various Catholic entities transcending regions, borders, and levels of the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

The conference will take place at the Collegium Carolinum, Munich (Hochstraße 8 — 81669 München). It will also be possible to join the conference online via ZOOM. For more information: https://piusxii.hypotheses.org/news?preview_id=20&preview_nonce=3a1f9a8083&preview=trueiew=true or: marion.dotter@collegium-carolinum.de

Programm

FRIDAY, 3RD MAY

8:30 Introduction

The Catholic Church in Contact with other Confessions
Discussant: Nadezhda Beliakova (Bielefeld)

8:40-9:00 Natalia Shlikhta (Kyiv)
Ukrainian Greek Catholics' View of the Russian Orthodox in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

9:00-9:20 Anna Bisikalo (Cambridge, USA)
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine and Poland between 1945 and 2000

9:20-9:40 Milosav Đoković (Belgrade)
The Holy See and the patriarchate of Constantinople after World War II (1945-1958)

9:40-10:40 Discussion

10:40-11:10 Coffee break

Diaspora Groups and their Political Activities
Discussant: Martin Zückert (München)

11:10-11:30 Katrin Boeckh (Regensburg)
Catholics on the move and in deportation. Fragments of papal Ostpolitik before the Cold War

11:30-11:50 Beáta Katrebová Blehová (Bratislava)
The Slovak (Catholic) diaspora and the persecuted Catholic Church in Slovakia – The strategies of Anti-Communism during the late Pontificate of Pius XII

11:50-12:10 Arūnas Streikus (Vilnius)
The true voice of the Church of Silence? Lithuanian exile Catholics as intermediaries between the Vatican and the Catholic Church in Soviet Lithuania during the first decades of the Cold War

12:10-13:30 Discussion

13:30-14:40 Lunch break

Political Efforts of the Roman Catholic Church from “above” and from “below”
Discussant: Johannes Gleixner (Munich)

14:30-14:50 Emilia Hrabovec (Bratislava)
To recommend courage or tolerate the inevitable? The Holy See and the Catholics in Slovakia in the face of the Communist persecution and seduction, 1948-1958

14:50-15:10 Przemysław Pazik (Warsaw)
Squaring the triangle. Loyalty to the pope and national ecclesiastical policy of the Polish Church leaders 1948-1956

15:10-15:30 Petar Dragišić (Belgrade)
Yugoslavia and the Catholic Church 1945-1978: Between Conflict and Reconciliation

15:30-16:30 Discussion

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-18:30 Keynote
Piotr Kosicki (Maryland)
A Coalition of Progressives: Political Catholicism at the Intersection of Latin American & European Political Agency, From Anti-Stalinism to Christian Democracy in the 1950s and '60s

SATURDAY, 4TH MAY

Anticommunist Activities of Catholic Representatives
Discussant: Gašpar Mithans (Koper)

9:30-9:50 Marina Bantiou (Thessaly)
The Reception of the Catholic Church's Decree Against Communism in 1949 in the European and US Press in the Early Cold War

9:50-10:10 Michaela Lenčéšová (Prague)
Ľudák diaspora in a Divided World (1945–1970)

10:10-10-10:40 Coffee Break

10:40-11:00 Helena Toth (Bamberg)
“That you put off […] the old man […] and that you put on the new man”: The struggle for symbolic resources in post-war Hungary

11:00-11:20 Kristian Geßner (Gießen)
The Bacon Priest and the East. Werenfried van Straaten and his Aid Project for Eastern Europe

11:20-12:20 Discussion

Final Discussion

Kontakt

marion.dotter@collegium-carolinum.de