Concordat versus agreements: experience of integration Church activity into the lithuanian legal system

Paulius V. Subačius

doi:10.21697/pk.2018.61.2.07

Published: 2018-06-09

Vol. 61 No. 2 (2018)

Concordat versus agreements: experience of integration Church activity into the lithuanian legal system

Paulius V. Subačius

Prawo Kanoniczne

Section: Rozprawy i Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.21697/pk.2018.61.2.07

Abstract

In the year 2000 after difficult searches for a consensus in the Church itself and after variable negotiations with Government three agreements between the Holy See and the Republic of Lithuania were signed and ratified. The first one – “Concerning juridical aspects of the relations between the Catholic Church and the State”, the second – “Concerning the pastoral care of Catholics serving in the Army”, and the third – “On Co-operation in Education and Culture”. A Mixed bilateral commission between the State and the Church has been constituted for elaboration and practical implementation of the aforementioned acts. An article analyses a shift from the drafts of concordat to agreements and tensions between Church and State in spheres of education, culture, social care, pastoral care in the military and hospitals.

Keywords:

Concordat, agreements, Lithuanian Bishops’ Conference, Lithuanian Government, pastoral care

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Subačius, P. V. (2018). Concordat versus agreements: experience of integration Church activity into the lithuanian legal system. Prawo Kanoniczne, 61(2). https://doi.org/10.21697/pk.2018.61.2.07

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Paulius V. Subačius

Affiliation:

Vilnius University, Lithuania Poland

Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)

Prof. dr. Paulius V. Subačius – full member and vice-president of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Sciences, member of the Commission Internationale d'Histoire et d'etudes du Christianisme (Lithuanian section). Author/editor of fifteen books in fields of literature, history, religion, and academic politics. Among them – monograph “Twenty-five Years of Religious Freedom, 1988–2013: Christians in Lithuanian Society after the National Revival” (2016), and critical editions of diaries and letters by bl. bishop Jurgis Matulaitis MIC (Matulewicz).