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Workshop
"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)"
The workshop will take place as part of the project “The Global Pontificate of Pius XII Catholicism in a Divided World, 1945–1958” (for more information visit our Website) at the Collegium Carolinum in Munich from 3 rd to 4 th May.
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. 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.
Marion Dotter (Collegium Carolinum, Munich)
Julian Sandhagen (GHI Rome)
Viktoriia Serhiienko (GHI Warsaw)
In cooperation with the German Historical Institute in Rome, the German Historical Institute Warsaw, and the Max Weber Foundation.