Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31823/d.28.4.3
Political Subjects in Relation to the Reform Movement and Old Catholicism – Political Action to Weaken the Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes until 1929 (I.)
Daniel Patafta
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb
Abstract
The Croatian Old Catholic Church was founded at the end of 1923 as a failed attempt by the reform movement of part of the lower ranked Catholic clergy, which in the period from 1919 to the end of 1923 sought to reform and democratize the Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, but also at the encouragement of Belgrade governments, initially the independent democrats of Svetozar Pribićević, associated with the Freemasons, and later the Greater Serbia Radical Party, which gave it direct and indirect support in institutionalization and expansion, thus showing its antagonism to Catholicism. All political entities until 1929 that supported the reform movement and the Croatian Old Catholic Church did so out of political opportunism in order to weaken the social and political influence of the Catholic Church among the Croatian people, but also out of their own ideological beliefs.
Keywords
reform movement; Croatian Old Catholic Church; political Catholicism; Pribićević; Stjepan Radić; Serbian radicals; Freemasons; Catholic Church; political opportunism
Hrčak ID:
249189
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Publication date:
30.12.2020.
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