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Caritas et veritas 2025, 15(1):99-114 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2025.009

Responsibility and Challenge: Psychological Analysis of Covid-19 Information in a Journal of the.Czech Christian Academy.

Pavel Moravec1, Lucia Lacková2
1 University of Ostrava, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational and School Psychology, Fráni Šrámka 3, 709 00 Ostrava
2 University of Ostrava, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational and School Psychology, Fráni Šrámka 3, 709 00 Ostrava

The purpose of the research is to analyse information about Covid-19 as it relates to religion in a Czech periodical Universum in the year 2020. We examine coping strategies to deal with the pandemic situation. Thematic analysis is used as a method. Five main themes are found: Challenge, Searching for the spiritual dimension of the crisis, Use of online space, Ineffective management of the pandemic by the Church, and Balancing different approaches. The disease is presented as a challenge to face and the published information gives the pandemic a spiritual dimension, but without apocalyptic fear. Spirituality has emerged as an adaptive coping mechanism to deal with the pandemic not only for practising believers.

Keywords: Catholic Church, Covid-19, coping, religious coping, religious fundamentalism.

Received: June 16, 2023; Revised: February 14, 2024; Accepted: March 4, 2024; Prepublished online: July 20, 2025; Published: August 12, 2025  Show citation

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Moravec, P., & Lacková, L. (2025). Responsibility and Challenge: Psychological Analysis of Covid-19 Information in a Journal of the.Czech Christian Academy. Caritas et veritas, 15(1), 99-114. doi: 10.32725/cetv.2025.009
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