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62. Srdjan Vrcan, “Mladi i religija danas” (The young and religion today), in
Religija i drusˇtvo, pp. 46–60.
9. The Second Strife
1. Radovan Samardzˇić, “Religija i drusˇtvo, crkva i dr zˇava u SFRJ” (Religion
and society—Church and state in the SFRJ), in Religija i drusˇtvo (Religion and
society), ed. S ˇ tefica Bahtijarević and Branko Bosˇnjak (Zagreb: Center za idejno
teorijski rad Gradskog komiteta SKH, 1987), p. 199.
2. The Slovene TV journalist Ljerka Bizilj was the first in Yugoslavia who, in
1990, after having examined police archives at Ljubljana, wrote about spying on
the clergy by the communist political police. Ljerka Bizilji, Cerkev v policijskih
arhivih (The Church in police archives) (Ljubljana: Cankarjeva zalozˇba, 1990).
3. Chris Cviic, “Throne and Altar in Croatia,” Tablet, 19 July 1997.
4. The media in Slovenia revealed in 1999 that workers found several microphones
planted in the offices of Maribor Bishop Franc Kramberger and one of
his aides. Vatican Radio reported on this on 10 April 2000. The listening devices
were discovered in September 1999, just before the visit by Pope John Paul II.
The Slovenian leadership, says Radio Vatican, includes many former communists
and others who fear that the Roman Catholic Church wants to regain the wealth
and political power it enjoyed before 1945. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,
Newsline, Southeastern Europe, 11 March 2000.
5. Komisija za odnose s vjerskim zajednicama Izvrsˇnog vijeća Sabora Socijalističke
Republike Hrvatske, “Uputstvo za organizaciju i rad komisija za odnose s
vjerskim zajednicama u općinama, gradovima, i zajednicama općina” (Instructions
for organization and work of Commissions for Relations with Religious
Communities in municipalities, cities and associations of municipalities), confidential
(Zagreb, 24 April 1986).
6. Komisija za odnose s vjerskim zajednicama Izvrsˇnog vijeća Sabora Socijalističke
Republike Hrvatske, “Pregled stanja i rada komisija za odnose s vjerskim
zajednicama u SR Hrvatskoj” (A survey of the status and activity of commissions
for Relations with Religious Communities in the SR Croatia), prepared by the
chief secretary Vitomir Unković with the Commission’s staff in cooperation with
municipal commissions (Zagreb, April 1988).
7. See John Anderson, Religion, State and Politics in the Soviet Union and Successor
States (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
8. Republički sekretarijat za unutrasˇnje poslove SR Hrvatske—Sluzˇba
Drzˇavne Sigurnosti (The Republic Secretariat of Internal Affairs of the Socialist
Republic of Croatia—Service of State Security), “Informacija o komentarima i
ponasˇanju klera za vrijeme bolesti i pogreba Predsjednika Tita” (An information
on comments and behavior of the clergy during the illness and funeral of President
Tito), top secret, obtained through the Commission for Relations with Religious
Communities of the Executive Council of the Association of Municipalities
of Dalmatia (Zagreb, June 1980). According to this document, some clerics
blamed God for keeping Tito alive so long.
9. Vjesnik, Zagreb, 21 April 1983.
10. In 1985, Monsignor Petar S ˇ olić, a professor of theology from Split and
spiritual advisor for the Catholic Youth Movement, was threatened with a jail
sentence by the police for organizing a march on the diocesan shrine of Sinj. In
an interview with me, S ˇ olić said he saw nothing illegal in singing religious songs
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