On 18 January, the École Française de Rome, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Fribourg organised in Rome the first event of a three-stage conference series examining the relationship between Catholicism and anti-communism. At the event, András Fejérdy, PI, and Emília Hrabovec, senior researcher of the Sovereignty project, presented papers on the history of Central and Eastern Europe, based on documents from the Holy See archives that have recently become accessible to the public. In his presentation entitled “Des prêtres crypto-communistes? Le Saint-Siège et le mouvement sacerdotal pour la paix”, Fejérdy discussed how the Vatican responded to the challenge posed by the priestly peace movements established in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia after 1950, while Emília Hrabovec spoke on “Slovak Catholic Anticommunism in Exile and Pius XII (1945-1958)”.
The website of the conference series: https://archivespie12.hypotheses.org/4817
The programme of the conference is available here: https://histoire-sociale.cnrs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Colloque-Anticommunisme-1.pdf