Lietuvių Katalikų Mokslo Akademijos Suvažiavimo Darbai XI

This volume represents one of the most significant surviving records of organized Lithuanian Catholic intellectual life during the decades of Soviet occupation. The Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Rome and convening congresses across the diaspora, was a rare institutional structure capable of sustaining Lithuanian scholarly production entirely outside Soviet control. The Eleventh Congress, dedicated to the 400th anniversary of Vilnius University, deliberately reclaimed that foundational institution of Lithuanian and regional learning from Soviet-era historical revisionism, asserting a continuous Catholic and Lithuanian intellectual tradition rooted in the Jesuit university and extending into the present.

The volume's multilingual character — Lithuanian, Latin, French, English — signals both the internal cohesion of the Lithuanian diaspora scholarly community and its aspiration to participate in international Catholic and humanistic discourse. The Vatican's participation via Cardinal Casaroli's telegram, and the reciprocal telegram signed by Bishop Vincentas Brizgys, places this congress within the broader framework of the Holy See's pastoral engagement with Lithuanian Catholics in exile. For researchers, educators, and descendants of the diaspora community, this volume documents not only the content of Lithuanian scholarship in exile but also the organizational networks, personalities, and institutional relationships that sustained Lithuanian Catholic culture for four decades of displacement.

Organized diaspora scholarly institution (Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Sciences) holding periodic international congresses and publishing their proceedings from Rome, maintaining Lithuanian Catholic intellectual and academic life outside Soviet-occupied Lithuania.