Český katolický exil v ideovém sporu o časopis Studie
Czech Catholic Exiles in an Intellectual Dispute over Studie Magazine

Summary/Abstract: This article considers an intellectual dispute that took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s amongst Czech Catholics in exile. The dispute was over the leadership of the exile journal Studie, which was published by the Christian Academy in Rome (Křesťanská akademie v Římě) and edited by the priest Karel Skalický (b. 1934). Because of its liberal openness towards non-Catholic authors, including former Communists, the journal met with the resistance of conservative Catholic exiles led by the priest Jaroslav V. Polc (1929–2004), and thus had to confront repeated attempts to have him step down. Considering the open character of Studie, a number of distinguished non-Catholic exiles came out in defence of Skalický (in particular, Erazim Kohák and Václav Bělohradský), together with dissidents in Czechoslovakia (especially Josef Zvěřina). The dispute, which ended in the victory of Skalický’s liberal approach, is described here in the context of debates within the whole Roman Catholic Church at that time over the interpretation of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.

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