Current Affairs New initiative demands final settlement of disputes between Church and State
Last week's Supreme Court ruling, which handed control of Prague's St. Vitus' Cathedral to the Czech state has once again focused attention on the tense relationship between the Catholic Church and the Czech government. Besides the thorny issue of returning property to the church, which was confiscated by the former communist regime, other bones of contention between the two sides include the church's official status in Czech society and the ratification of a treaty between the Vatican and the Czech Republic. Now a Catholic civic association has submitted a petition to the Czech president calling on the authorities to resolve these longstanding issues once and for all.
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