Religious Freedom in the Romanian People’s Republic at the Beginning of the Establishment of the Totalitarian Communist Regime. A Legal and Canonical Approach
Religious Freedom in the Romanian People’s Republic at the Beginning of the Establishment of the Totalitarian Communist Regime. A Legal and Canonical Approach

Summary/Abstract: The present research attempts to identify the relationship between the legal stipulation of religious freedom and its active guarantee at the beginning of the communist regime in Romania. Although the subject could be considered of a strictly historical value, the re-questioning of the year 1948 may be beneficial for the pandemic context of 2020-2021 and the State-Church relationship in Romania, given the rapidity of the restrictive measures taken both in 1948 and in 2020-2021 regarding religious freedom. Although the contexts are different, one is socio-political, post-war, and the other is epidemiological, the restrictive measures were in both systems legally based, thus obtaining a protective legal umbrella, both constitutional and normative. Regarding the fatidical year of 1948, I will attempt to emphasize how the new followers of the communist legal vision tried to substantiate the State’s interferences in religious fares. Unfortunately, among them were not only second-hand jurists, pseudo-academic products of The Communist Party, but even some illustrious theologians of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

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