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This article explores the question of whether the increasing importance of religion in international relations is also reflected in the role the Roman Catholic Church plays in the formulation of Czech foreign policy. In the first half of the study we will briefly investigate in what ways the role of the Church is described in the key documents of Czech (foreign) policy and how the Church-politics relationship is interpreted in the Czech media discourse. Our attention will be dedicated primarily to the thematic analysis and the actorness of the Church. In the article's second half, we will focus on the way(s) the Church is trying to change the situation of its relation to Czech politics, which is currently unfavourable to it. We will identify three fundamental strategies that can be used by the Church as a reaction to its expulsion from the public sphere and also assess their empirical presence in the Czech milieu. Adapted from the source document.

The author uses the concept of reconciliation processes/reconciliation issues, which is usually used in the environment of churches or in applied theological discourses respectively, in connection with the specific contribution of Christian churches to the historical settlement & reconciliation among the European states & nations after the 2nd World War, especially in Central Europe. He analyses & compares in detail the Polish-German & Czech-German issues. While thanks to the important position of the Church (or churches) in the Polish & German societies, these activities (or initiatives) met with a great response as early as the 1960s -- and gained a great importance also on the official level of the (West-)German-Polish relations, in the Czechoslovak-(West-)German relations, this factor long remained absent or entirely marginal. But after the political change(s) of 1989 the churches became involved in the shaping of the newly formed bilateral relations between the unified Germany & the successor states of former Czechoslovakia & greatly contributed to their having a deeper anchorage in Europe. The author backs up in a detailed way the relevance of this phenomenon, especially in Czech-German relations (or generally in church initiatives/activities with a German participation), but less so in the mutual relations (and initiatives) between the Central European churches. On the contrary, the previously highly visible church engagement in the Polish-German case fell off in the 1990s. The Central European churches gradually naturally realized again the advantages & difficulties of their role as a trans-national/non-state actor -- and as one of the important players of the so-called public diplomacy. This role culminated in the 1990s in connection with their social & political emancipation in the post-communist states -- and at the same time it started to dwindle in importance as a consequence of the secularization processes which accelerated considerably & often a surprisingly during the 1990s (and also in the subsequent years) in this part of Europe. Adapted from the source document.

Obsah -- Úvod -- Náboženské motivy českém jazyce (Tereza Klabíková Rábová) -- Křesťanské svědectví v mediální společnosti: Teorie a praxe (Jiří Zajíc) -- Komunikace, instituce a důvěra - tři teze k tématu církev a média (Aleš Pištora) -- Majetkové vyrovnání, nebo vyrovnávání vztahu? (Václav Pláteník) -- Ryba smrdí od hlav, aneb proč komunikace české katolické církve kulhá na obě nohy a nikdo jí nepomůže… (Štěpán Kotrba) -- Využívanie sociálnych sietí v cirkevnom prostredí (Imrich Gazda) -- Komunikace papeže Františka (Anna Vošalíková) -- Vliv náboženství na daňovou morálku v České republice (Wadim Strielkowski, Inna Čábelková, Laurent Weill) -- Televize NOE: televize dobrých zpráv (Leoš Ryška) -- Vysílání veřejné služby nejen pro věřící (Irena Ryšánková) -- Jak nahlížím na současnou církevní komunikaci? (Tomáš Holub) -- Shrnutí -- Resume -- Seznam autorů -- Seznam literatury