https://doi.org/10.21697/wsp.2017.12.3.36.06
Several well planned nationwide initiatives have been implemented in the Slovak Catholic Church. The most signi cant of them are “ e decade of Spiritual renewal” in the 1990s and two “Plans for Pastoral Care and evangelization of the Catholic Church in Slovakia for the years 2001-2006 and 2007-2013.” At the level of the dioceses diocesan synods were held in the dioceses of Banská Bystrica, Košice, Spiš, and the ordinariate for the armed Forces and the armed Corps of the Slovak republic. In the eld of intellectual apostolate important initiatives were undertaken by e Faculty of eology of Trnava University that organized a series of ten symposia on New evangelization held in the years 1992-2001 as well as by various religious orders and Catholic lay movements. Among the examples of such initiatives are the Salesian evangelizing festival of gospel music “lumen” in trnava (its 24th edition was held this year), the Franciscan “New evangelization Centre of St. John Paul II” in Beckov, lay Community at St. Martin’s Cathedral in Bratislava, the initiatives of the renewal in the Holy Spirit Movement and much more. it appears that nationwide initiatives had a number of short-comings: they arouse excessive expectations and provided poor feedback. diocesan initiatives triggered a lively debate which unfortunately only led to producing documents since the majority of priests did not perceive any need to implement the proposed changes in their parishes. In comparison with them, the initiatives of religious orders and laypeople which arouse spontaneously with a tacit support of the bishops proved to be much more viable. Priests are the key players in the new evangelization in parishes and its success depends on whether they support or hinder the lay apostolate. As early as in the 1940s the sta of the main office of Marian Congregations realized that their priests having the functions of spiritual directors and chairmen of local Congregations can support but also hinder their life. It appears that even today this holds true for many parishes where the priest is a key person in starting the processes of the new evangelization and pastoral conversion.
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