Versko izobraževanje konvertitov v obdobju med obema vojnama na Slovenskem
Religious education of converts in interwar Slovenia

Summary/Abstract: The paper will present the practice of the Catholic priests at the requests of non-Catholics to enter into Catholicism. In Slovenia these converts were in the interwar period originally often Catholics who converted into another religion and then wanted to “return" into the Catholic Church. The paper will research concrete examples of different groups, reasons and conditions for their crossing and re-conversion. The key requirements all candidates had to fulfill were the “lesson about the Catholic faith”, with an emphasis on the differences between the Catholic faith and the faith they wanted to withdraw from, and penance. For instructions on how to proceed and to obtain authorization for the admission of candidates in the Catholic Church, they had to turn to the competent bishop. In religiously mixed marriages the priests demanded a contract on the catholic education of children. Among candidates were also foreigners, especially shortly after World War I we fin d a lot of Russians among them. We note, that in the 1930s the requests of the Ljubljana diocesan office had tightened in comparison to the previous decade, and also the number of applications increased, namely in proportion to the increased number of exits from the Catholic Church.

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