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Abstract: The French diplomats and the situation of the Catholic Church in Romania (1946-1955). In the after-war period, the Western world, and particularly France, demonstrated a certain interest for the Catholic Church in Romania during the process of sovietisation. The explanation may reside in the traditional cooperation between France and the Central- and East-European countries, especially Romania, in cultural, political and military matters; a cooperation in which France continued to believe, even in the conditions of the installation of a totalitarian regime. Although the French were already quite detached from the Church, they still had the sentiment of belonging to Catholicism (which is by definition open to international problems) and of the necessary solidarity with other Catholic Churches, particularly those subjected to persecution, implicitly regarding human rights. Generally the democratic regimes were interested in the evolutions in the Moscow-controlled area. From the perspective of the Romanian state, the issue of Catholicism (regardless of rite) belonged precisely to the policy of fighting the West and its values. The interest of the state coincided in this respect with that of the Romanian Orthodox Church, which wanted to suppress the Greek-Catholic Church, to take over its patrimony and to religiously isolate the Romanians, whose openness towards the West was considered inopportune. The integration of the Greek-Catholics into the Orthodox Church was for the Communist regime the optimal solution for religious uniformity and the approach to the Russian Church. |
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