STA, 31 October - The Protestant Reformation was like a breath of fresh air to the stifling social and religious atmosphere in Slovenian lands. It is credited with giving Slovenians the first books in Slovenian, thus encouraging a sense of national identity. 

STA, 10 October 2018 - A hate speech trial against Slovenian Bishops' Conference secretary general Tadej Strehovec got under way at the Ljubljana Local Court on Wednesday, the culmination of a clash over prayers for unborn children staged by anti-abortion activists outside the Ljubljana gynaecology clinic. 

STA, 25 September 2018 - In the face of a report on sexual abuse in the German Catholic Church, the Slovenian Bishops' Conference told the STA on Tuesday that its task force dealing with such abuses had received 15 reports since it was founded in 2009, three of which were dismissed as ungrounded. 

STA, 10 August 2018 - A higher court has sentenced former priest Franc Klopčič to four years in prison for sexual abuse of an eight-year-old girl, the newspapers Delo and Slovenske Novice reported on Friday. The priest's lawyer announced an appeal to the Supreme Court. 

STA, 16 June 2018 - Archbishop of Ljubljana Stanislav Zore spoke out against pro-choice rights in an address to the annual gathering of the sick, the disabled and elderly at Brezje, Slovenia's main pilgrimage shrine, on Saturday. 

The slow but steady infiltration of religious norms into the secular society.