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The Legal Position and the Cultural Role of the Churches During the Communist Era in Hungary
Author(s)
NovákIstván
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2022.03.003
Affiliation(s)
University of Eger, Eger, Hungary
ABSTRACT
In my essay I would like to present the role of the Hungarian Catholic Church as a national “institution” after 1945. The communist dictatorship supplied the authority of the churches to reshape the society based on a new ideology. One of the milestones of this process was the years after 1947 when the church schools were secularized and the monastic orders were disbanded. Cardinal JózsefMindszenty was the main character of the act of resisting. The second milestone was around 1956 when there was a limited cooperation: some of the schools became church school again but with a high control. From 1988 came the third milestone when the presentations of the bishops were bounded formal to the authority of state and after a short period the church became independent from it. In my paper, I would like to present these milestones and what were the effects on the Hungarian society in a juridical and cultural way.
KEYWORDS
Vatican, church, espionage, clericalism, secularism, social act of resisting
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