SOME FORMS OF REPRESSION OF CATHOLIC CHURCH IN HERZEGOVINA RIGHT AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR Cover Image

NEKI OBLICI REPRESIJE NAD KATOLIČKOM CRKVOM U HERCEGOVINI NEPOSREDNO NAKON DRUGOGA SVJETSKOG RATA
SOME FORMS OF REPRESSION OF CATHOLIC CHURCH IN HERZEGOVINA RIGHT AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Author(s): Marina Beus
Subject(s): History
Published by: Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Mostaru
Keywords: Catholic Church; Herzegovina; communist prosecution; priests’ suffering

Summary/Abstract: The paper gives an overview of the Catholic Church position in Herzegovina in the period after the Second World War till 1960s. The author speaks about the general state of the Catholic Church in the mentioned period. She also follows phases and repressive measures undertaken by the communist authorities in accordance to their ideology. They were taking over their material properties, abolishing religious schools, religious instructions, laws on marriage and register books, what denied the right of Church to issue public identification papers.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 222-248
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Croatian