Towards inevitable challenges of democratic society

Starting from the fact that the Church in Croatia starts to face with democratization of the soeiety and its cosequences, the author, in the first part of his reflects, outlines spiritual and epochal context of the contempo-raneous democracy. At the same time he notices how secularization and pluralism make two inevitable accompanyng phenomena of the each, so far known democratic society. In the concluđing part, the author proposes, in the form of thesis, some positions and behaviours which could help to the church community to decrease undoubtedly corrosive consequences of meeting with comming democratic processes