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Croatian catholics in the time of postcommunism
Jakov Jukić
Abstract
It is difficult to understand today's happenings without knowing
yesterday's conditiones. Because of that it is necessery to returne into the past and to assert how just Croatia has been living proper catholicism through its long history at its borders of the great cinflicts: with Islam, Orthodox and communism. While lerned debates about theoretical contradictions in the system of Islam, Orthodox and communism were holding in Europe, at the borders it was lived in the experience of blood and conflicts for bare survival of the faith and people. No without points of contact with that happenings in the
past, the Croatian contemporaneity denotes three crucial events: fali of communism, disintegration of former Yugoslavia and breaking of the war. It is not certainly easy to answer a questions about bearing of catholics in present difficult ferments. In any case demands of time are great. Because of that there is need to start with education of the individual, that has strong spirituality, theological education and moral responsability. Without such elite of lay people and priests Church can easily become a place of the ritual elations and national remembrances, but not God's people on the way of the conversion. In that complex it is the most important to preserve particularity
of the Christianity and its distinction in relation to the state, society, politics, culture, history and world.
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52572
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Publication date:
21.12.1994.
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