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The author presents relevant information about the situation of the Catholic Church in Slovakia in the period of communist enslavement. Conciliar renewal was possible only on the basis of the activities of small communities, and among them a community 'Light-Life' of. Fr. Franciszek Blachnicki. In Slovakia, this community, led by Fr. Michael Zamkovsky, today assumed the name 'River of Life' and continue working. The principle adopted from the Fr. Blachnicki: a new man - a new society - a new culture operates today in the first two segments of the principle. Still need a new culture, and this is possible, when this movement involving more lay people. In Slovakia, all moving in that direction. The article presents the penetration of Polish pastoral thought to Slovakia.