Professional paper
»OUR STANDPOINTS IN POLITICS« – POLITICAL PROGRAM OF THE SUPPORTERS OF THE CROATIAN CATHOLIC MOVEMENT GATHERED AROUND RIJEČKE NOVINE (1912 – 1914)
Veronika Mila POPIĆ
Abstract
The paper shows the program of the followers of the Croatian Catholic Movement as stated in the programmatic article »Naše stanovište u politici« (»Our standpoints in politics«) published in December 1912 in daily newspaper called Riječke Novine. Regarding
the ideas, the article shows a complicated and multilayered socio-political and religious context of the emergence of the newspaper, as well as the development of the aforementioned article. Since it is considered a product of Croatian Catholic Movement, the author
suggests that this article should be examined primarily in the context of the Catholic Church and numerous Catholic movements across Europe. Moreover, the article was almost completely focused on the higher evaluation of the contribution of laity in the Church
and political life, as well as in the development of catholic press. The active participation of the editorial board of Riječke Novine (and the majority of followers of the Croatian Catholic Movement) in contemporary socio-political events led towards the necessity of
expressing their attitude towards the key factors of the contemporary Croatian political life (e.g. their attitudes towards the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, political parties, the Slovenians, the Serbs). Exactly regarding these attitudes the programmatic article situated
Riječke Novine in a specific political and national group. The period just before the First World War in Croatia was marked by inadequate Austro-Hungarian rule on the one hand, and Serbian successes in the Balkan Wars on the other hand. As the paper reveals, both of
these factors will contribute to the formation of the pro-Yugoslav attitude among Croats and Serbs not just within the editorial board of Riječke Novine but also within one (and predominant) branch of the Croatian Catholic Movement.
Keywords
Croatian Catholic Movement; Catholic Church; politics; Yugoslavian orientation; Rijeka; Catholic press
Hrčak ID:
144081
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2015.
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