Original scientific paper
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ISTRIA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO LIBERALISM, 1848-1914
Stipan Trogrlić
; Institute of Applied Social Research, Pula, Croatia
Abstract
Faced with Italian and Croatian national movements, the Catholic Church in Istria in the 19th century had to take stances toward those novelties in the century of the nations. The Church in Istria, particularly its leadership, was in the forefront of the Croatian national movement, which caused its confrontation with Italian liberals, who were the propagators of the Italian »Rissorgimento« and its assumption of the necessity for italianisation of Croats and Slovenes there. While the Croatian Catholic clergy warned the faithful of the destructive influence of liberalism on moral and faith values, it also cautioned them of the national peril that liberalism represented. The liberals also attempted to engage Italian clergy for the purposes of the Italian national program.
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212344
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Publication date:
5.12.1994.
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