This thesis covers some main fields in the relationship between the State and the Church in Sovenia in 1966–1991. The author analises the tactics of Slovene communist government in relation to the local Church and illustrates the consecuences of totalitaristic praxis on Slovene Catholics and on the hierarchy of the Church, mainly analysing the elaborate archival material of Slovene Commission for religious affairs. To estimate soundly the political regime towards the Slovene Church the author uses the definition of religious freedom from the International covenant on civil and political rights from 1966 which was, at least declaratively, ratified five years later by the Yugoslavian government. In the same manner it covers legal and administrative governemnt measures toward the activities of religious communities and the impact of these measures on the pastoral activities of the Church and on the apostolat of its members. It enlightens the actions of Slovene government toward The Faculty of Theology in Ljubljana and its relation towards female and male monastic communities, as well as the status of Slovene Catholic press and the regime politics of diferentiation with the help of the Society of the Catholic priest. The author pays considerable attention to the actions of Slovene Church in favor of freedom of religion and its contribution to democratic transformation of the Slovene society. This is also the basis for comparing the legal and actual status of the Church in Slovenia and Croatia. The author keeps an eye on three layers of relations between the State and the Church in Yugoslavia/Slovenia (the Holy See-Yugoslavia, Slovene republican government-the heads of the local church, local government-pastoral communities) and analises the influence they had on each other. Gained results enlighten an establishment that the communist government (first on a federal basis, after 1971 in the terms of the republics) took specific statutory provisions in order to protect its gained political monopol.
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