ÚLOHA VIERY V SOCIÁLNOM ZÁPASE NA PRÍKLADE PASTIERSKEHO LISTU SLOVENSKÝCH BISKUPOV Z NOVEMBRA 1924

The social movement that developed in Slovakia after the end of the Great War succeeded in capturing the left-wing parties - Social Democracy and the Communist Party. In particular, communists did not hesitate to use the alleged parallels of communist ideas with Christianity in the ideological struggle. Thanks to this tactic, they were also successful among religious populations. Therefore, efforts to establish Christian-oriented trade unions in Slovakia were not too successful. Thus, in November 1924, through the Pastoral Letter, the Slovak bishops entered the conflict and watched with concern the rising anticlerical movement in Czechoslovakia.