Blessed Aloysius Stepinac in the Journal Hrvatska revija 1951–1960

Abstract

Thanks to the large number of Croatian intelligentsia that emigrated from Croatia after WWII, multiple newspapers and periodicals were launched in the diaspora which, unlike domestic publications in the time period between 1945 and 1989, were able to write freely on all topics. One of these topics was Blessed Aloysius Stepinac, Archbishop of Zagreb, sentenced in 1946 in a staged trial in Zagreb to sixteen years in prison and a further five years of deprivation of his human rights. Among the more prominent journals which wrote about him in the diaspora was the quarterly Hrvatska revija, relaunched in 1951in Buenos Aires. This paper presents, analyses and interprets articles and other texts on Blessed Aloysius Stepinac published in Hrvatska revija between 1951 and 1960, the year of his death. Due to the prestige enjoyed by this periodical and its significance as a cultural journal in the diaspora, as well as its importance for Croatian culture as a whole, this paper may be considered representative of the reception of Blessed Aloysius Stepinac in the various publications issued by post–war Croatian cultural and political émigrés.