Content for Slovakia
Church and state in Slovakia
♦ Why Slovakia?
♦ Slovak teacher speaks out on religious education
♦ Father Hlinka’s secret mission (1919)
♦ New Slovak law rehabilitates wartime regime
♦ Timely eviction of the National Memory Institute
- Draft “conscience concordat” (2004): commentary and EU report (2005)
♦ Papal photo-op for the next concordat (2003)
♦ Legal expert: Concordat would threaten women's health in Slovakia
♦ Opposition to conscience concordat from Slovaks, MEPs and NGOs worldwide
♦ From the Slovak Press (2005-2006)
♦ Report from the EU that stalled the Slovak concordat (2005)
♦ Fall of the Slovak Government over the concordat (2006)
♦ Vatican's “morality pact” still pending
- Texts of Slovak concordats and other Church-state documents
♦ Modus Vivendi with Czechoslovakia (1928)
♦ Birthday greetings for Hitler (19 April 1940)
♦ RC clergy's Declaration of loyalty to the Fascists (1940)
♦ Basic Concordat (2000)
♦ Precedence Clause of the Slovak Constitution (2001)
♦ Concordat on the armed forces (2002)
♦ Concordat on Catholic education (2004)
♦ Draft of conscience concordat (2004)
- Pastorisation and Evangelisation Plan of the Catholic Church in Slovakia for 2001-2006
This is an audacious five-year plan by the Slovak bishops for Catholicising Slovakia. Among the recommendations is saturation by Church media (1.6.3j), and indeed from 23 January 2007 the bandwidth of the BBC World Service was turned over to the Catholic station, Rádio Lumen.
