Bernardica Juretić (born 18 August 1963) is a former Croatian Catholic nun and psychologist who served as the Minister of Social Policy and Youth in the Cabinet of Tihomir Orešković from 22 January 2016 until its dissolution and appointment of the new government in September 2016.

[3] Juretić continued her education at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome from which she graduated in 1988 in psychology with thesis The purpose of human suffering in the wake of [Viktor] Frankl's logotherapy.

In 2012, she was named external member of the Board of Health and Social Affairs of the Croatian Parliament, and director of "Zajednica susret".

[7][8] When confronted with allegations of the conflict of interest in June 2016, after it surfaced that she had allotted a significant portion of state budget funds to NGO "Susret", an organisation which she personally founded and operated prior to her appointment as minister in Orešković's cabinet, Juretić infamously retorted to gathered press reporters "Let them drop dead", apparently alluding at her critics and whistle-blowers.

Day before becoming a minister, Juretić wrote post on Facebook in which she thanked her friends for their congratulations, and urged those who are believers to pray for her and the whole Government for the Holy Spirit to enlighten them so they could work only for the glory of God.

She refuses to talk about abortion, artificial insemination and the Life Partnership Act for same-sex couples because she considers those questions to be ideological.