Archbishop Devčić on the occasion of the election of Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope

“Pope Benedict XVI is a man of profound faith, broad knowledge, great wisdom and rich pastoral experience.”

“Europe, which is enduring the consequences of secularization, has obtained from its being, from Western culture, a Pope who understands it from the inside, who knows what secularization is and what its consequences are,” announced the vice president of the Croatian Conference of Bishops, Archbishop Ivan Prenđa of Zadar, on the occasion of the election of the new Pope

“It is regrettable that a distinguished company such as CNN uses insinuations in its reports and does not consider it necessary to recant them as publicly as it presented them to its audience,” wrote Bishop Košić

Cardinal Josip Bozanić: I am profoundly convinced that in Pope Benedict XVI we again have a Holy Father who is well acquainted with the Croatian nation and the Catholic Church within it.

At a symposium in Cernik, Fr. Frederic Manns, Ph.D., lectured on the Jewish Galilee at the Time of the New Testament and the archeologist Prof. Stanislao Loffreda lectured on Archeological Research in Capharnaum

An exhibition with its tangible archeological testimony from the Holy Land, texts from the Holy Scriptures that tell of the history of the transmission of the Bible and a presentation of the Bible in the Croatian cultural heritage provide broad insight into spiritual history and bring the Croatian person closer to the Divine undertaking of salvation, emphasized Bishop Škvorčević.

Fr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who is also the custos of the Holy Land, visited Croatia on the occasion of a biblical-archeological museum exhibition at the Franciscan monastery in Cernik