Transylvanian Echoes of a European Phenomenon: The Vatican and the National-Christian Movements in the Mid–1920s
Transylvanian Echoes of a European Phenomenon: The Vatican and the National-Christian Movements in the Mid–1920s

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the manner in which the public agenda of the Greek Catholic Church in Transylvania came to include an issue of European interest: the difficult relationship between the Holy See and certain political trends, during the mid–1920s. The disavowal by Pius XI of the Action Française and his condemnation of the actions taken by the fascist militias against the Catholic youth, both occurred in the second half of 1926, also had an impact upon the Greek Catholic circles in Romania. A number of priests belonging to this denomination had joined the local manifestation of the national-Christian trend (the National Christian Defense League), and the question was whether the papal ban on Catholics joining the movements that placed religion in the service of their own political interests was also relevant for the Romanian space.

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