Bobič, Pavlina - Introduction Keywords: Austria-Hungary | Catholic Church | Franz Ferdinand | ideological legitimation | Slovenian Abstract: This chapter examines the Catholic Church's interpretation of the causes of the war, an interpretation which endowed the war with a moral dimension and conferred on it adequate ideological legitimation. It occupies with the rhetoric employed by the Church in the context of Franz Ferdinand's assassination and the declaration of the state of siege that …

Bobič, Pavlina - From Holy to Bloody War Keywords: Austro-Hungarian | Catholic Church | holy | Slovenian Abstract: This chapter examines first, how the Catholic Church interpreted the notions of suffering and sacrifice, embedded in the context of the state's war effort, and second, to show the ways in which war and faith were perceived by the Slovenian soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian Army between the outbreak of the war in 1914 and the end of 1916, i.e., in the period prior to the May D…

Bobič, Pavlina - The Catholic Church between the Nation and State in July and August 1914 Keywords: Archduke's | Catholic Church | Franz Ferdinand's | Slovenian | Victor Eisenmenger's Abstract: This chapter attempts to cast light on the following issue: what was the rhetoric of the Catholic Church in the Slovenian lands of the Habsburg empire, when analyzing the causes of the war, and who or what forces, earthly in the ideological sense-if not heavenly, judged from the clerical perspective-were accountab…