The cathedral of Saint-Guy, in Prague, belongs to the Catholic Church and not to the State. The Appeal Court of Prague established this in a ruling handed down on 16 June, thus ending a controversy that had lasted since 1992. In reporting the court’s ruling, the APIC news agency reconstructs the historical background of the episode. The cathedral dating back to 1344 was the property of the Church for centuries before being ‘nationalised’ and passing under the control of the Czechoslovak Communist regime in 1954. Following the fall of the regime in 1989, the Catholic Church tried to recover the cathedral. A court of the first instance in the Czech capital had accepted the request, explaining that the Church’s right to ownership had never been nullified during the regime. The Appeal Court has now confirmed this ruling.
