Representation of the Catholic church in the Croatian Media

U ovom radu je prikazan odnos Katoličke crkve i medija. U prvom dijelu rada se prikazao teorijski dio odnosa Crkve i medija, a potom su interpretirani rezultati istraživanja i odrađen je intervju s teologom. Provedeno istraživanje je pokušalo dati odgovor kako to doista mediji prikazuju Katoličku crkvu u hrvatskom medijskom prostoru. Na nekim primjerima se može vidjeti da se Katolička crkva često zatvara pred medijima i ne komunicira dobro s javnošću. To se posebno može vidjeti kod tema koje ukazuju na neki problem u samoj Katoličkoj crkvi. S druge strane su mediji koji često kada se institucija povuče u sebe nastoje još više produbiti temu i doći do informacija. Intervjuom s teologom pokušalo se pokazati kako netko iz Katoličke crkve gleda na medije i detektira probleme koji nastaju. Hipoteza rada je da Katolička crkva još uvijek nije dovoljno otvorena prema medijima i da se zbog toga stvara privid negativnog izvještavanja o Crkvi u hrvatskom medijskom prostoru. Pomoćna hipoteza je da mediji u Katoličkoj crkvi traže ili sami pomoću igre riječima uvode senzacionalizam.This thesis is about the relation between Catholic Church and media. First part of thesis covers the theoretical part and shows how Church reacted to the new media that showed up in different times. After that the results of the conducted research were interpreted and there is an interview with a theologian. Conducted research tries to give an answer to the question: “How Croatian media represents Church?”. There are examples in which can be seen that Church often closes itself in front of problems and does not communicate well with the public. This can be seen especially with topics that point to some problem in the Catholic Church itself. On the other side, the media are the one who are trying to get information. Interview with a theologian shows how someone from Catholic Church acknowledges and detects problems between the media and Church. The hypothesis of this thesis is that Catholic Church is not opened enough towards the media and because of that there is an illusion that media are mostly reporting negatively about the activities of Catholic Church in Croatia. Auxiliary hypothesis states that the media in Catholic Church are looking for sensationalism or that they are doing it by word play