Even if I swallow the fact that every new highway, every new manufacturing facility, museum or cultural festivity is first blessed by some bishop, I’ve find it hard to accept that the prime daily news on Croatia One, the major Croatian broad-casting system, are followed (without commercial inter-ruption!) with some preaching. The spot is called Duhovna Misao (Spiritual Thought) and is regularly narrated by a catholic clergyman from some small city or village. What a clever approach: not only that you stamp the importance of the church on all those people interested in prime news but you also remind the people of that particular small city or village who is calling the shots in their locality.

Of course, the church is appreciating the servility of Croatian politicians. In his Easter sermon (do I have to tell you that it was broadcasted on Croatia One?), Josip Cardinal Bozanić, the Archbishop of Zagreb, said that he is praying every day for all Croats but in particular for the leading Croatian politicians because they are burdened with so many responsibilities. This is yet another example of the well known ‘totalitarian democracy’ : all people are equal but some are more equal than the others. But, then, who is to say that Catholic church is a democratic institution?