tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post2624984939588654301..comments2024-03-26T12:56:54.350+00:00Comments on LMS Chairman: The results of persecutionLatin Mass Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951084157414901564noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-41494417606914069152016-07-30T14:18:00.924+01:002016-07-30T14:18:00.924+01:00Well said, Joseph. Fantastic essay.
The Czech Ch...Well said, Joseph. Fantastic essay. <br /><br />The Czech Church, like the English Church (or indeed a number of others), is shrinking not because of an absence of persecution, but because too many of its clergy have lost the faith, or no longer have the courage to proclaim it. Athelstanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07346012062816580296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-195170300943598932009-10-28T17:07:57.930+00:002009-10-28T17:07:57.930+00:00"An interesting discussion took place during ..."An interesting discussion took place during the questions about the effect of persecution on the Church. One questioner was saddened and disillusioned that the church in the Czech Republic, having been active in opposing the Communists, had, since Communism fell, become rather an insignificant force in what is said to be the most secular country in Europe. Another questioner suggested that the reason for the decline in the Czech church was that it was no longer being persecuted."<br /><br />Perhaps starting with Jan Hus might help. <br /><br />Then compare the voting patterns in 1945 and 1947 in the Czechoslovak General Election between the Slovaks and the Czechs. A large percentage of the latter voted Communist very few Slovaks did. <br /><br />The Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia was vigourously persecuted by the Communists. Just read up on the liquidation of the Monasteries in 1950. The Communists restricted entry to seminaries, infiltrated their own candidates and made religious orders illegal. <br /><br />The few brave Czech Catholics bravely kept to the True Faith during the years of persecution but they are too few to counter the secular and atheist and indifferent spirit of the post 1992 Czech Republic. <br /><br />The situation in Slovakia is of course quite different.Bryannoreply@blogger.com