Croatia
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Roman Catholic
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, weekly
newspaper
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published in
Zagreb
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and distributed throughout the country, as well as among
Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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and
Croatian diaspora
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.
Publishing history
The newspaper (whose title means "Voice of the
Council
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") began publication on October 4, 1962, at the initiative of the Zagreb Franciscans and based upon a decision made by the archbishop of Zagreb,
Franjo Šeper
Franjo Šeper (2 October 1905 – 30 December 1981) was a Croatian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1968 to 1981, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965. B ...
theological
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discuss following confrontations of various post-Council theological trends.
It was first printed on September 29, 1963, with the motto "The New Face of the Church". The 1963
Christmas
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edition was printed in 40,000 copies. The publisher was the Archdiocesan Cathedra in Zagreb and the editor-in-chief was the head of this institution. It was issued every two weeks until the end of 1984. In December 1984, the publication's editor
Živko Kustić
Živko Kustić (12 December 1930 – 19 July 2014) was a Croatian writer. Kustić studied mathematics, physics, and theology at the University of Zagreb before being ordained as a priest of the Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia in Žu ...
was put under investigation for disseminating "misinformation" and was sentenced to two months in jail the following month.
Since January 1985, ''Glas Koncila'' has been a weekly newspaper, published jointly by the archdioceses of Zagreb, Split, Sarajevo, Rijeka and Zadar. From 1987 to 1991, the archdiocese of Belgrade was also one of the publishers. Since 2004, the publisher is again the Archdiocesan Cathedra in Zagreb.
Notable contributors
Notable contributors include
Bonaventura Duda
Bonaventura Duda (14 January 1924 – 3 August 2017) was a Croatian Order of Friars Minor, Franciscan, theologian, biblical scholar, and a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Early life and education
Roko Duda was ...
,
Celestin Tomić
Fr. Celestin (Dinko Bruno) Tomić (6 October 1917 in Vis – 23 September 2006 in Zagreb) was a Franciscan Conventual and biblical scholar.
Early life
He comes from a large family of the island of Vis manual workers. Dinko Bruno was born on 6 ...
,
Vladimir Lončarević
Vladimir Lončarević (born 26 July 1960) is a Croatian literary historian, literary theorist, Croatist, essayist and publicist.
Biography
Lončarević was born in Zagreb, where he graduated in Croatian studies from the Faculty of Humanitie ...
Živko Kustić
Živko Kustić (12 December 1930 – 19 July 2014) was a Croatian writer. Kustić studied mathematics, physics, and theology at the University of Zagreb before being ordained as a priest of the Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia in Žu ...
Tomislav Šagi-Bunić
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The meaning of the name ''Tomislav'' is thought to have derived from the Old Slavonic verb "'' tomiti''" or "'' tomit" meaning to "''languish ...
Croatian encyclopedia
The ''Croatian Encyclopedia'' ( hr, Hrvatska enciklopedija) is a Croatian national encyclopedia published by the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography.
Overview
The project began in 1999, and it represents a fifth iteration of the encyclo ...