Church Life in the Pages of the „Party Press”
The article highlights how ecclesiastical events and personalities were
evoked during the communist period in the official press. In particular, the
newspaper „România liberă” published from time to time news about church life.
For conjunctural political reasons these events did not appear in the media
because of an ideological idiosyncrasy to obstruct the presence of the Church
in public space. References to religious life and appearances of hierarchs in
the press were produced by events initi- ated by the State through the
Department of Cults. Since the beginning of the 70s, the existence of church
life was to be “recalled” in the press, only when the central authorities of
the Church had administrative events or ecumenical reunions. All these accounts
were severely censored.
BORIS BUZILĂ
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