Holub, secretary of the Czech Bishops' Conference, was reacting to the passing of the bill on property settlement between the state and churches that counts with the return of real estate and financial compensation for churches shortly after midnight Friday.
The bill will now go to the the left-dominated Senate that is expected to veto it and return to the Chamber of Deputies.
"On the one hand it showed that the government is capable of carrying out the plan, but on the other hand the utter lack of accommodation on the part of politicians became clear," Joel Ruml, chairman of the Ecumenical Council of Churches, said.
"But nothing is over. The Senate will return it. Also, the goal is no settlement with churches, but it (the bill) has become a beautiful theme ahead of the (autumn) regional elections," Ruml said.
Holub said he hopes that the political tension that accompanied the debate in the Chamber of Deputies will ease.
"The settlement makes it possible for tax payers not to pay churches' operation any more, but at the same time, it makes it possible for churches to work where needed," Holub said.
Under the government bill, churches should get back more than a half of the property worth about 75 billion crowns that was confiscated from them under the Czechoslovak communist regime and 59 billion crowns plus inflation are to paid to them in compensation for the rest over a period of 30 years starting next year.
Simultaneously, the state will gradually cease to finance the churches. The transitional period is to last 17 years.
The bill was supported in the Chamber of Deputies by 93 out of 182 deputies present, 89 were against it.
The government coalition will need minimally 101 votes in the 200-seat Chamber of Deputies to outvote the Senate's expected rejection of the bill.
"I am convinced that the votes will be available and that the final voting will be successful," Prime Minister Petr Necas (Civic Democrats, ODS) told CTK.
Bohuslav Sobotka, chairman of the opposition Social Democrats (CSSD), however, has doubts about this.
"The passing of church restitution may be a problem for the government in September with regard for the not too big enthusiasm a number of government coalition deputies showed Friday," Sobotka said.
Katerina Klasnova, chairwoman of the group of opposition Public Affairs (VV) deputies, also said the situation in September will be more dramatic and more closely watched.
She said obstructions will continue. Her party's deputies resorted to obstructions during the discussion on the bill on Friday, too.
The Chamber of Deputies included in the government bill a provision obliging churches to prove they owned the property to be returned to them.
The opposition proposals that the financial compensation be deleted from the bill, that only the property that the churches owned as well as used be returned to them, or that the first sale of the returned property be not exempted from income tax did not make it through.
The opposition wanted the bill to be rejected or returned to the second reading.
The Chamber of Deputies was dealing with the bill from the June session. The Friday evening and night debate lasted almost six hours.
The opposition challenges the extent of the property to be returned as well as the level of compensation.
It also fears that the bill may breach the principle according to which only property confiscated after the communists seized power in then Czechoslovakia on February 25, 1948, may be returned.
The government coalition dismisses these fears.
The government coalition says the bill will contribute to the development of municipalities on the territory of which church property is now blocked.
Culture Minister Alena Hanakova (TOP 09 and Mayors) said the rejection of the bill would not prevent the return of church property in connection with a previous decision by the Constitutional Court.
Besides, the state would have to continue funding clergymen's salaries.