Unfortunately, the church had been so suppressed for 40 years it wasn't able to take advantage of the new opportunity presented it. Today Czech Catholics struggle with a new set of problems, not those imposed by communist repression but by freedom and materialism. Because her father was a member of the Communist Party and an official in the Ministry of the Interior, she kept her baptism secret. She borrowed a prayer book and typed her own copy of it at home. She remembers the communist past, not with a sense of nostalgia so much as with a measured appreciation of both what was good and bad about that era in comparison with the present.
Today there is no problem to get a book, to go to a meeting of young religious people.
It's very easy. At the same time society and the young people are more and more materialistic. In my own time, I met a lot of converts. They were searching for some meaning. They could not travel to any foreign country.