Cardinal Bozanić, together with the bishops and approximately six hundred priests, led the central celebration of the 50th anniversary of the death of the Blessed Alojzije Stepinac in the Zagreb cathedral.

At the session, there was discussion of Catholic Social Week to be held next year, the working text of a document on the laity prepared by the Council of the CCB for the Laity, and analysis of a document on the formation of candidates for the priesthood. From September 30 to October 3 of this year, the plenary session of the Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe will be held in Zagreb.

A Mass for Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, Maria, and all the Polish officials who perished in the air crash near the Russian city of Smolensk was held in the Zagreb cathedral

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To love your neighbor according to the model of the Good Shepherd means to share a mentality, culture, experience of your own nation, your time and your region with him. ... It means to live, according to the model of Christ, with your nation, to share joy and hope with all people of good will in anticipation of liberating salvation and to pass through all the difficult paths of human life, said the president of the Croatian Conference of Bishops, Archbishop Marin Srakić, as he congratulated the new bishop.

Msgr. Želimir Puljić, the bishop of Dubrovnik for the past twenty years, has been chosen as the new archbishop of Zadar – the 113th pastor in the seventeen centuries of the Church of Zadar

A Solemn Mass was celebrated in the Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on the occasion of the installation of the bishop of Sisak, Msgr. Vlado Košić.

The trilogy, which sheds light upon the role of the archbishop of Zagreb, Alojzije Stepinac, before, during and after the Second World War, was prepared by Msgr. Juraj Batelja and published by the Postulature of the Blessed Alojzije Stepinac on the 50th anniversary of the death of the beatus.