摘要：Summary Criminal offences of sexual freedom and morality lately are one of dominant issues in the mass media reports concerning the Catholic Church. The abuses in the catholic educational institutions in Ireland attracted the attention of the mass media in Croatia too, which is the key topic of this article. The reports of seven Croatian daily newspapers are analysed: Jutarnji list, Večernji list, Novi list, Slobodna Dalmacija, Glas Slavonije, 24 sata i Vjesnik. In 111 analysed contributions/articles we evaluated the relevance of the source of information, the thematic and the graphical design of the article, as well as the characteristics of the titles/headings given. Special attention was given to the mass media representation of the abuses in the Irish catholic institutions, in relationship to similar cases in other states, protection of identity of the suspect priests and victims of abuses, generalisation of particular cases and jumping to conclusions and attacks on Pope and other ecclesiastic officials.
