Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.57.3.6
Relationship Between Print Media and Roman Catholic Church in Croatia During SFRY
Ivan Tanta
; University of Dubrovnik, Department of Communication, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Marina Damjanović Tolj
orcid.org/0000-0002-1477-4790
; Orebić Elementary School and Kuna Elementary School in Pelješac, Pelješac, Croatia
Abstract
From 1943 to 1990 the attitude of secular, national and print media towards the Catholic Church in Croatia was diverse. During that period Croatia was a part of communist Yugoslavia, which was led by Josip Broz Tito who had established the communist regime. The media was controlled by the government. Tito wanted the Church to be under the government administration as well, which former archbishop Stepinac did not approve of and was strongly against the separation from Vatican. In 1966 there was a brief relief and possibility for freer action for clergy and religious media after the SFRY and Vatican signed a treaty. After Franjo Kuharić was elected as the new archbishop of Zagreb in 1970, the Church once more started fighting back to the authorities and the media. When SFRY disintegrated, the attitude of the new Croatian government towards Catholic Church and clergy altered. The Republic of Croatia, now free and independent, adopts its first Constitution thus radically changing their relationship towards the Catholic media and overall religious matter in the media.
Keywords
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; archbishop Alojzije Stepinac; the media; Communist party; the Catholic Church
Hrčak ID:
281813
URI
Publication date:
26.9.2022.
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