Prihvat Drgog vatikanskog koncila u Hrvatskoj na primjeru katoličkog tiska i odnosa Crkve prema medijim
Acceptance of the Second Vatican Council in the Croatian catholic press and the Church's attitude toward media

Summary/Abstract: An examination of the acceptance of the Second Vatican Council among Croats has not yet received scholarly attention, even though some competent evaluations exist. This article limits itself to reviewing the main Church publishers and publications which were established or renewed at the time of and directly after the Council in order to commnicate the Council's ideas, as well as examines the degree to which the Church's aims were realized in so far as the media is concerned as set out in the post-Council documents. The Council occured at a time when a ''warmer climate'' existed in the relations between the Church and Communist Yugoslavia; this was also a time of crisis within the Yugoslavian regime. This led to a renewal in the Catholic press in Croatian, ten years after the communists had stifled the weekly ''Gore srca'' (Lift up your Hearts), the sole remaining Croatian Church newspaper to continue printing after 1945. The first publication to appear was the popular newspaper ''Glasnik sv. Antuna Padovanskog'' (St. Antun Padovanski Herald), put out monthly by the Franciscan order of Zagreb starting in April 1962. Following this, the weekly Glas s koncila (Voice of the Council) began to appear. This newspaper's editors began to publis the month Mali koncil (the Little Council) for youth. In Split, the episcopal ordinariate began publising a theological journal, Crkva u svijetu (the Church in the World), in 1966, along with many related books. In Zagreb, the theological journal Svesci (Bindings), which came out before Christmas, 1966, the largest Catholic publishing house Kršćanska sadašnjost (Christian Here and Now), began to gradually develop. These were the most important Croatian publishing initiatives which were inspired by the Council. But the Council's ideas began to spread through a number of smaller publications and initiatives. The era of the Second Council was marked by tenson and polemics between socalled 'progressives' and 'conservatives', wherein some stressed the new elements in the Council's teachings, while others were afraid that the reforms and 'innovations' were imperiling the very essence of Catholic teaching and practice. The Council changed no less than the relationship between the Church and the media. The Council decree Inter mirifica accepted the media as the ''astounding invention of technique''. The injunction of the Council inspired in 1971 the promulgation of the Pastoral Instruction Communio et progressio, in which the contemporary Catholic approach to the media was elaborated, further supplemented by the instruction Aetatis novae twenty years later. Both documents, and those that followed them, were translated in Croatia, but we are far from having put them into practice.

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