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114. According to Katolička Crkva i Hrvati izvan domovine, p. 13. Most of these
worked in West Germany.
115. According to the 1971 census, 330,000 migrant workers were from Croatia
and 137,351 from Bosnia-Herzegovina, mostly from Croatian-populated areas.
Idid., 116. Vatican documents, Motu Proprio—Pastoralis Migratorum Cura
and Instructio de Pastoralis Migratorum Cura, released on 20 August 1969, urge
spiritual care of migrant workers, refugees, and people without a homeland.
116. Vatican documents, Motu Proprio—Pastoralis Migratorum Cura and Instructio
de Pastoralis Migratorum Cura, released on 20 August 1969, urge spiritual
care of migrant workers, refugees, and people without a homeland.
117. The Croatian Church abroad was distributed most densely throughout
western Europe, with 110 missions, pastoral centers, and offices and some 140
priests, about 100 social workers, and another 100 pastoral assistants (57 laypeople
and 43 nuns). Ignacije Vugdelija, “Političko-ekonomska migracija Hrvata
i religijsko-moralna problematika te briga Crkve,” in Grubisˇić et al., Religija i
Sloboda, p. 271.
118. From Stanković’s interview with me, Nedjeljna Dalmacija, 1 July 1990,
p. 19.
119. Ignacije Vugdelija, “Političko-ekonomska migracija Hrvata i religijskomoralna
problematika te briga Crkve,” in Grubisˇić et al., Religija i Sloboda,
pp. 276–282.
120. I picked up these terms on my journalistic tours and talks with village
priests in Dalmatia’s hinterland.
121. Doder, The Yugoslavs, p. 83.
122. Ibid.
123. Komisija za odnose s vjerskim zajednicama Izvrsˇnog vijeća Sabora Socijalističke
Republike Hrvatske (Commission for Relations with Religious Communities
of the Executive Council of the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of
Croatia), “Zabiljesˇka o razgovoru predsjednika komisije Dr. Frida i Nadbiskupa
Dr. FRane Franića odrzˇanog 21 Aprila 1972 u prostorijama komisije” (Memo on
meeting between the Commission’s Chairman, Dr. Frid, and the archbishop of
Split, Dr. Frane Franić, held on 21 April 1972 in the Commission’s Office), confidential,
08-41/2-1972) (Zagreb, 25 April 1972).
124. Interview with me. Nedjeljna Damacija, 1 July 1990. According to information
I obtained through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of
Croatia in May 1991, in the late 1980s, the total number of Yugoslav diplomatic
staff and consular officials working abroad was 1,110, of whom 78 were ethnic
Croats. Informacija.o zastupljenosti kadrova iz republike Hrvatske u SSIP-u i DKP (An
information on diplomatic and consular cadres from the Republic of Croatia in
the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (Zagreb: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
the Republic of Croatia, 1990).
125. Grbić, “O crkvenim finansijama,” p. 6.
126. According to the Church’s official statistics for 1969, the Catholic
Church ran 19 seminaries with 2,109 students, and 11 theological schools (including
two universities) with 1,256 students at home and 70 students studying
theology abroad. Bročić, “The Position and Activities of the Religious Communities
in Yugoslavia,” p. 363.
127. For example, “parish catechism” was practiced in the Croatian dio˙cese
of Split in 40 locations in the academic year 1947–48—by 1983, 60 percent of
all elementary school children and 19.7 percent of high school students regularly
attended the parish catechism. Ivan Grubisˇić, “Z ˇ upski vjeronauk (kataheza) i
260 notes to pages 40–42