CARDINAL KUHARIC FORWARDS EASTER MESSAGE

ZAGREB, Mar 28 (Hina/IKA) - The Archbishop of Zagreb, Cardinal Franjo Kuharic, on Friday forwarded an Easter message to Croatians, the Catholic Information Agency (IKA) said. "We are faced with difficult world crises: moral, spiritual, social, economic, political and civilizational in general, and it is inevitable to ask (…) what is man and what is happening to him? He is the subject of all these crises. They are actually taking place within man", the message said. Man is a "mystery in every wickedness; takes pride in his power to the point of haughtiness; manifests his cruelty towards other men without the least compassion; can be unquenchable in his hatred, (…) in his greed (…)," the message further said and added that the Church called on its "sons and daughters" to question their conscience. "The media are creating a myth about 'modern man' to whom everything must be subordinated, God too. Apostle Paul knows the difference between the old and the new man. The old man is an old man in every epoch in that he is unconverted and a slave to sin. The new man is a man turned away from wickedness and transformed by Christ's redemption (…)", said Cardinal Kuharic, among else, in his Easter message to Croatians. (hina) ha 281603 MET mar 97