Bishop Hranić, in a statement on the occasion of the election of Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope, pointed out he had been one of the most open cardinals toward the media and that it was primarily thanks to him that the media were able to cover the cardinals’ entry into the Conclave.

“On the path of Benedict XV and John Paul II, this Pope will continue to build the community of the Church and the world.”

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