{"id":13804,"date":"2021-11-15T16:10:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T15:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&p=13804"},"modified":"2021-11-16T09:12:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T08:12:49","slug":"president-milanovic-at-audience-with-pope-francis-in-the-vatican-invites-him-to-visit-croatia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-at-audience-with-pope-francis-in-the-vatican-invites-him-to-visit-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107 at Audience with Pope Francis in the Vatican Invites Him to Visit Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 and First Lady Sanja Music Milanovi\u0107 are paying an Official visit to the Holy See. After an audience with the Holy Father Pope Francis, and a meeting with Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and the Secretary for Relations with States Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, President Milanovi\u0107 stated that they discussed topics that concern us and that with the assistance of the Vatican, we can perhaps solve them better since there is understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Milanovi\u0107 confirmed that he has invited Pope Francis to visit the Republic of Croatia. \u201cThe Pope is absolutely welcome in Croatia\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The President also noted that they discussed vaccination. \u201cEveryone is vaccinated in the Vatican, evidently a scientific view of the issue prevails here, and masks are scarce\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a problem lately with this madness lacking arguments. I\u2019ve supported this for months, but now I don\u2019t see any sense because it has no scientific base. The invention of a vaccine, which is the result of the work of a number of brilliant minds, cannot be science and this stupidity with the measures. Today in Austria they are prohibiting people who aren\u2019t vaccinated to leave their homes, except to go to work. What\u2019s that? Science?\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 told the press when asked to comment on the letter of the Croatian Bishops\u2019 Conference related to vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve told the citizens to get vaccinated, but they have a right to defend themselves from self-will. Where are human rights advocates? Where is the European Court of Human Rights that has an ambition to tailor the constitutions of other states? They\u2019re not here. The Pope has said \u2013 it is an act of love, think of yourself and get vaccinated. I won\u2019t ask you any more if you\u2019re vaccinated. My duty is to get vaccinated if I want to do something good for myself\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked about the Pope\u2019s view on the situation in the Western Balkans, especially Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, President Milanovi\u0107 said that he discussed this matter with Cardinal Parolin and Archbishop Gallagher. \u201cThey are friends willing to help, they know enough, but not everything. Their view is one which suits us, they can help, but there are limits. And we can help ourselves\u201d, the President said, and repeated that he is in favour of a meeting with Serbian President Vu\u010di\u0107 and Turkish President Erdo\u011fan \u201cto sit down and see whether we as representatives of the nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina can achieve more than second-class diplomats who are making a mess of things in Bosnia and Herzegovina\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs long as Croats insist on not being deprived of their right to elect their representative and look on to Sarajevo, and they do say that, be happy and may you shudder when Croats turn away from Sarajevo and say they\u2019re not interested in that. An intelligent conclusion is that Croatia still cares for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Let\u2019s not extinguish this\u201d, the President said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About his meeting with the Holy Father, President Milanovi\u0107 further said that he presented the Pope with a Glagolitic missal, a very precious and excellent book, very important for the Croatian identity. \u201cI told him that the Glagolitic Croatian script had been in use for centuries, long before the Latin alphabet. The few Croats who could write were semiliterate Glagolitic priests who kept up the tradition, the identity\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe presented his works, speeches and one work of art to me\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 said. Asked what message the Pope conveyed to him, he said \u201cit\u2019s too personal\u201d to share it with the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are religious and Church matters where I have no business, it\u2019s not my job. We talked about the region, Europe, Brussels. Pope Francis has interesting views on Brussels as an estranged centre of power that doesn\u2019t realize that European states are historical, national states\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 replied when asked if they talked about bilateral relations between Croatia and the Holy See. \u201cWe talked about Europe\u2019s identity, about problems of administrative management\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the remainder of the day, President Milanovi\u0107 visited the Pontifical Croatian College of St. Jerome where he met with the rector Rev. Marko \u0110urin and the Croatian students studying at Catholic universities in Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHOTO: \u00a9 Vatican Media<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHOTO: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia \/ Filip Glas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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