Naslov
Church in Croatia as the Opposition to Itself: Ecumenism as the Victim of Inner Conflicts

Autori
Branko Sekulić

Izvornik
Occasional papers on religion in Eastern Europe (1069-4781) 36 (2016), 3; 51-68

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Church in Croatia, Catholicism, Ecumenism, Frane Franić, Josip Bozanić

Sažetak
Taking into consideration the youthful and more mature periods of the life of Frane Franić, the late Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Split- Makarska, and Josip Bozanić, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the current Archbishop of Zagreb, as one of the most essential and prominent persons in the contemporary history of the Catholic Church in Croatia, whose life and work can serve as a kind of paradigm of the nature of the respective institution, I tried to portray a change in the social activity of the Croatian Catholic community “then and now.” The line that separates these two periods is the years of intensifying inter-ethnic conflicts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia and the bloody disintegration of the respective federation in the nineties. In this sense, this paper shows the discrepancy between the goals and actions of Franić and Bozanić “before and after” this social turbulence, for it indicates the massive change of the entire narrative that took place within the Croatian Catholic community towards the social situation and ecumenism as such. By the symbolic gap between Franić's and Bozanić's youthful and more mature periods, one has tried to create a vivid picture through which it will be much easier to understand the frustration within Croatian Catholicism that arises due to the realization of where it could be today if it followed the progressive spirit of Vatican II and where it finds itself now when it is immersed in the ethnonational mud and struggles with various ideological challenges.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Teologija

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