The agreement was expressly supported by the Church and certain political parties such as the New Slovenia (NSi) and the Social Democratic Party (SDS), other political parties criticized it, most notably the united Slovenian People's Party and Slovenian Christian Democrats (SLS+SKD), and they drew attention to several disputable issues, while the Slovenian National Party (SNS) dismissed the agreement, entirely, radically and in general, stating that 'this is a dangerous precedence for the interference of the Vatican in Slovenian territory with the blessing of the Vatican, the Opus association and probably some American intelligence agency too, in collaboration with the extreme right-wing' (Večer, 3 October 2000).
Omenjeni sporazum izrazito podpiraCerkev in stranki NSi in SDS, druge politične stranke gakritizirajo z opozarjanjem na več spornih vsebin ali pa vsajna eno (SLS+SKD), radikalno, pavšalno in v celoti pa gazavrača SNS s stališčem, da ¨gre za nevaren prejudic vatikanskega posega v slovenski prostor ob blagoslovu Vatikana, cerkvene združbe Opus dei in verjetno tudi kake ameriške obveščevalne službe ter ob kolaborantstvu ekstremnih desničarjev' (Večer, 3. 10. 2000).