Katolická akce jako nástroj papežského centralismu a její recepce v meziválečném Československu

Catholic Action played a key role in seeking out methods for how to define itself towards the challenges and changes brought about through a secular method of thinking and considering the world, a militant anti-clericalism and last but not least the rise of dictatorial ideologies opposing the Church. Church leaders focused their activities against these ideologies on promoting Catholic discourses on all major topics. Catholic Action activities, which were undoubtedly a centralised papal project, helped in many countries including Czechoslovakia to develop autonomous modern spiritual discourses. Specifically, experience of Catholic Action influenced some of the post-war generation of Czech Catholics because the community founded on their ideas shaped the identity of lay people engaged in the battle against the Communist regime.