POLITIČKA ORIJENTACIJA HRVATSKOGA KATOLIČKOG POKRETA U POSLJEDNJIM GODINAMA POSTOJANJA AUSTRO-UGARSKE MONARHIJE I PRVIM DANIMA STVARANJA KRALJEVSTVA SHS (1903.-1918.)
POLITICAL ORIENTATION OF THE CROATIAN CATHOLIC MOVEMENT IN THE LAST YEARS OF THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY AND THE FIRST DAYS OF THE KINGDOM OF SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENIANS (1903-1918)

Summary/Abstract: The fateful event in the development of the Croatian Catholic Movement (HKP) was the founding of the Croatian Catholic Seniority (HKS), an exclusive organization of Catholic clerical and lay intellectual circles. (1912). In the Christmas issue of the Catholic journal "Rije~ke novine", the seniors – a circle around Dr Petar Rogulja – publish their "first politicalprogram article", in which they take a view on the necessity of pursuing the "national unity of Slovenians, Croats and Serbs". When the seniors accepted the political program "Svibanjska deklaracija" (The May Declaration of 1917) as a basis for their work on "national issues", it was quite evident that Rogulja's "Yugoslav orientation" of the HKP had won a decisive victory. "The Declaration" was politically at its highest when the Bishop of Krk, Dr Antun Mahni} (1918) started publicly supporting it.

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