The position of the Yugoslav Communist regime towards the Catholic Church in Croatia

Zadatak diplomskog rada je opisati odnos jugoslavenskog komunističkog režima prema Katoličkoj crkvi u Jugoslaviji. Planiram prikazati kako se jugoslavenski komunizam ideološki, svjetonazorski i provedbeno oslanjao na revolucije s početka dvadesetoga stoljeća, pogotovo u odnosu prema Katoličkoj crkvi. U radu ću prezentirati djelomičan, na izabranim primjerima dokumentiran, prikaz odnosa komunističke vlasti (KPJ/SKJ) na čelu sa J.B. Titom prema KC u Hrvatskoj. Odnos je to bio pun pritisaka u svrhu discipliniranja, društvenog umrtvljenja (razjedinjenja) i otvorenog političkog obračuna sa jedinom društveno organiziranom strukturom koja, zbog svjetonazorske i ideološke suprostavljenosti, predstavlja kamen spoticanja funkcioniranja nedemokratske vlasti. Promatran je period od dvadeset godina, od kraja Drugoga svjetskog rata (1945.) do formalnog ugovora o odnosima dogovorenih u Protokolu (1966.). Ovaj rad obuhvaća period od dvadeset najtežih godina odnosa partijskog režima i Katoličke crkve u Hrvatskoj, ispunjen nebrojnim nasrtajima na Crkvu terorom nad crkvenim službenicima i laicima, stvaranjem anti vjerske histerije u medijima, progonom svećenika, biskupa i vjernika, kao i nizom montiranih procesa.The goal of this thesis is to describe the relationship between the communist regime towards the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia. I plan to show how Yugoslavian communism, ideologically and by implemetation, relied on revolutions from the beginning of the 20th century, especially in it's relationship to the Catholich Church. I will present partial and, on selected examples, documented display of relationship of the Communist government (KPJ/SKJ), with Josip Broz Tito in front, towards Catholic Church. That relationship was filled with pressures in purpose of disciplining, social disunion and open political clash with only social structure that, because of it's ideollogical opposition, presented the stumbling stone in functioning of undemocratic government. I observed a period of twenty years, from the end of World War II (1945) to enactment of formal contract of relationships agreed in Protocol (1966). This thesis includes period of the hardest twenty years in relationship of the Communist regime towards the Catholic Church in Croatia that was filled with countless attacks on the Church terror over Church officials and layman, creating an antireligious hysteria in the media, persecution of the priests, bishops and believers and in a string of fixed judicial proceedings