Dubrovnik, October 20 – 22, 2009

Archbishop Srakić announced that the bishops would devote particular attention to preparations for the accession of Croatia to the European Union and, among other things, discuss the topic of "The Believer before the Challenges of the Plural (Permissive) Society."

The history of the Homeland War and its victims, the price of our freedom, must not be consigned to oblivion. In a society prone to forgetfulness and concealing the truth, we need to renew remembrance lest we lose our future, said Cardinal Bozanić.

Contemplating the models of the holy priests, participants in the passion of Christ in the most profound manner, we think today about our mission and the demands of recent times when there has been no dearth of attempts by some new tyrants, whose prisons have walls and dungeons that are more difficult to recognize, to suffocate the Church amidst ruins and dust, said Cardinal Bozanić to the priests.

Jasenovac, Parish Church, September 24, 2009

Statement by the Justice and Peace Commission Croatian Conference of Bishops

The new bill proposals for water and water management funding have not provided safeguards against the uncontrolled privatization of water resources, a strategy for the export of water to countries that have a recognized need for a supply of drinking water, or safeguards against the illegal and uncontrolled extraction of gravel and sand from pumping sites. This has opened the way for highly interested multinational companies, as well as some socially and morally irresponsible local businessmen, to earn extra profits at the expense of the remaining national nonrenewable and renewable resources, warns the Commission.