The Second Vatican Council has encouraged new forms of work with young people, students and intellectuals in the Church in Slovenia. On the basis of pre-war experiences and especially after the elimination of religious studies in schools after war, many priests dedicated themselves to that work. After the eighties this education encouraged particularly the social responsibility of the intellectuals and established many organizational forms. Eastern conferences were organized in the Ursuline church, Tuesday lectures at Franciscans in Ljubljana, lectures for students and intellectuals in Maribor, and especially Theological Course for students and intellectuals and Inter-diocesan Committee for Intellectuals. Besides that students’ communities called meetings came to life. Theological Course expanded to all major Slovenian cities, settled also in Maribor and then gradually changed conceptually. In the Družina Weekly students were given a page, which they edited themselves. Inter-diocesan Committee published a Bulletin for students and intellectuals that is published today as the periodical Tretji dan. The Sinai Center and academic society Amos were founded in Maribor. Prior to independence, students and intellectuals connected to neighbouring organizations from abroad. Later some students joined the organization and work of newly emerging political parties, whose programmes contained Christian social teachings. Today pastoral care for students and intellectuals is moving from mass and public action to communion groups and meetings that are based on personal testimony and spirituality. In 2017 a University parish was founded in Maribor, but it was not yet formally included into the University.
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