Her family's property was confiscated by the Communist authorities due to her father's activity in Croatian Peasants' Party.
Later she moved to Rijeka, where thanks to her knowledge of Italian Rendić started working in the editorial committee of La Voce del Popolo newspaper.
She also wrote for Pomorstvo ('Seamanship') magazine until 1972, as well as reported for Glas Koncila[6][7][8] and other Catholic periodicals under the guise of her pseudonyms Vjera Marini and Madam Berith.
Rendić was sued by the Communist authorities for her article The genitive exit or the Second Croatian revival in Kritika magazine (no.
As a result of the show trial at the Supreme Court of SFRY in November 1973, Rendić was forcibly retired and sentenced to one-year prison punishment, while Kritika magazine was censored.