“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

Pope John Paul II was well acquainted with the methodology of totalitarian regimes, which asserted that their victims were actually criminals. It is precisely for this reason that the Pope restored the reputation of Cardinal Alozije Stepinac, a victim, by beatifying him in 1998. Bishop Košić asked CNN to issue a public apology for asserting blatant untruths because it is important that such a thing does not happen again, not only in the case of Cardinal Stepinac but in the cases of any of the vi

The Serbian media were incorrect when they called Stepinac an “Ustasha,” emphasized Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan Jovan Pavlović of Zagreb-Ljubljana and All of Italy in an interview for Jutarnji list.