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  Aloysius Stepinac Summary
Stepinac publicly called on the Church to pray for the well being of the new state and for the Lord to fill the leader, Ante Pavelić, with a spirit of wisdom for the benefit of the nation and so forth.
Stepinac never used his powers to excommunicate even the worst killers who murdered thrumpething that it is in the name of Catholic faith, and not a single priest was removed from his ranks as a consequence of misdeeds against Serbs.
Stepinac claimed that he was submitted to a show trial, particularly in his 38-minute long speech he gave on October 3rd as part of the fourth day of the proceedings.
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 Aloysius Stepinac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stepinac was born in the village of Brezarić, in the parish of Krašić.
In 1937 Stepinac succeeded Anton Bauer as the archbishop of Zagreb, becoming one of the youngest archbishops in the Church's history, even though he was younger than the prescribed canonical age of 40.
Stepinac was the archbishop of Zagreb during World War II in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945).
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 Bl. Aloysius Stepinac
Stepinac was the youngest Catholic bishop in the world when he was consecrated on June 24, 1934.
Archbishop Stepinac had already experienced this wild nationalism in Italy, and had reached the conclusion that it was "the biggest plague of the human race," in that it fostered interracial hatred rather than interracial love.
We have given such extensive coverage to the cause of Blessed Aloysius Stepinac because he was called on to stand fast against all Europe's totalist ideologies: the Fascist, the Nazi, and the Communist.
www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id273.htm   (2459 words)

  
 St. Aloysius
Aloysius was only seven when he had a strong religious experience, and began to double his prayer-time and penances.
Ferrante next placed Aloysius and his brother Ridolfo in the court of the Duke of Mantua.
The contest won, Aloysius set out joyfully for Rome, and at the age of 19 entered the Jesuit novitiate on November 25, 1585, taking his first vows in 1587.
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 CNN - Pope beatifies controversial Croatian cardinal - October 3, 1998
Stepinac remains a controversial religious figure, despite the beatification.
Stepinac's own notes, and recent studies, say he spoke out against the atrocities, and worked to save lives.
The pope said Stepinac, "having endured in his own body and his own spirit the atrocities of the communist system is now entrusted to the memory of his fellow countrymen with the radiant badge of martyrdom."
www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9810/03/pope.croatia.02/index.html   (528 words)

  
 CROATIAN PORTRAITS: CARDINAL ALOYSIUS STEPINAC
Stepinac signed the well-known pastoral letter at the Episcopal synod in which were brought to light precise facts concerning the mass killings of priest and monks; 243 killed, 169 jailed, 89 disappeared, altogether 501.
As for his post of chaplain-general Stepinac was in the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, for which reason his post entailed no responsibility, so that even the Ustashe regime of the NDH held him accountable.
, 1960 Stepinac was solemnly and honourably buried in the cathedral in Zagreb.
www.magma.ca /~rendic/stepinac.htm   (6941 words)

  
 CROATIA 1941 - 1946 by DENNIS BARTON
On April 10th 1942 Stepinac preached: "The greatest victor is not he who grinds cities and villages into dust and ashes, nor him who scatters like chaff mighty armies, nor him before whom men tremble in fear for their earthly life, but Him who is lord of life and death, of time and eternity.
Stepinac had to remove priests from parishes when their lives were in danger because they refused to accept 'converts' ((SL 21)).
In February 1942 Stepinac protested to the minister of the Interior regarding the destruction of Orthodox churches especially in Senj ((SL 21, AHO 17)).
www.churchinhistory.org /pages/booklets/croatia(n)-2.htm   (10978 words)

  
 CNY Lead Story Archives
Archbishop Stepinac High School was founded in 1948 to meet the educational needs of students from Westchester parishes.
The school is named after Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac, an archbishop in post-World War II Yugoslavia who was imprisoned from 1946 to 1951 during a harsh communist crackdown on the Church.
Stepinac is in the midst of a $1.5 million capital campaign for the construction of an additional baseball field, tennis court and two outdoor basketball courts.
www.cny.org /archive/ft/ft050798.htm   (1005 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Aloysius Stepinac (Roman Catholic And Orthodox Churches: General Biography) - Encyclopedia
Aloysius Stepinac, Roman Catholic And Orthodox Churches: General Biographies
Aloysius Stepinac[step´inAts] Pronunciation Key, 1898–1960, Yugoslav prelate, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, b.
The controversy over the Yugoslav treatment of Stepinac served to widen the rift between the Tito government and the Vatican.
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 Who Will Be Next
In announcing the beatification of Stepinac, John Paul II referred to his 'martyrdom.' I do not doubt that the Pope's words were carefully chosen and that the identification of Stepinac as a 'martyr' was intended.
This would be perfectly in line with the ongoing program to re-write history to paint a positive picture of the disgraceful and murderous conduct of the Catholic priesthood in wartime Croatian and, especially of Rome's shameful failure to use her power and influence to seek an end to the Croatian Holocaust.
Stepinac was charged, tried and convicted of the crime of collaboration with the Nazis following their invasion and dismantling of Yugoslavia.
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 The Roman Church and the Ustashi Regime
All bishops, with Archbishop Stepinac at their head, received in 1944 the highest Ustashi decoration "The order of Merit." All these priests were cited for their political services to the Ustashi state or for active participation in battle, either on the Eastern front or in fighting the Partisans.
Archbishop Stepinac never missed an opportunity to stress the significance of the Ustashi state both in his speeches to the faithful and in his use of the authority of his position.
Thus, throughout the war, Archbishop Stepinac and a considerable part of the higher and lower clergy bound the fate of the Catholic Church in Croatia to that of the Axis and the Ustashi regime.
jmgainor.homestead.com /files/PU/MDPC/CH/stp/case/11/11.htm   (2828 words)

  
 Stepinac
No opportunity was allowed to pass without Stepinac openly singing the praises of, or sprinkling with oral or holy-water blessings, the new Catholic Croatia, her great Leader Pavelic, the Duce, and the great Fuehrer.
Stepinac ordered special ceremonies in all the Catholic churches on Pavelic's birthday, and he frequently invoked the blessing of God upon the Ustashi.
Stepinac was not only the Head of the Council of Croatian Bishops and of the Committee which carried out a policy of forcible conversions, he was none other than the Supreme Military Apostolic Vicar of the Ustashi Army.
liberalslikechrist.org /Catholic/Stepinac.html   (3026 words)

  
 Seattle Catholic - Letters to the Editor
Regarding Boland's demurral, it is true that the cases of Mindszenty in Hungary and that of Aloysius Stepinac (1898-1960) in Yugoslavia are similar.
Stepinac and Mindszenty both clashed with the pro-Nazi governments in their respective countries during the war, both emerged as folk heroes and both had to be destroyed by the Reds.
At the time of Stepinac's frame-up in 1946 he was Archbishop of Zagreb and was not elevated to the red hat until years later.
www.seattlecatholic.com /letterstoeditor.html   (557 words)

  
 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of February 10
Aloysius Stepinac, the eighth of 12 children of a peasant family, was always the special object of his mother's prayers to he might be ordained.
At the end of the war, Stepinac was found guilty of collaborating with the Nazis at a mock trial.
Without a doubt, Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac is one of the greatest Croatian patriots of the 20th century.
www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0210.htm   (3894 words)

  
 You Can Judge the Catholic Church By Its Heroes
Stepinac was the archbishop of Zagreb during World War II.
Unfortunately for the advocates of Stepinac's sainthood, the archbishop's diary is part of the historical record and documents his admiration for the murderous Croatian leader Ante Pavelic, even after he learned of Pavelic's genocidal plans.
In calling for the cooperation of all Catholics with the fascists, Stepinac could well be considered the patron saint of racists or right-wing nuts everywhere.
www.secularhumanism.org /library/aah/inniss_11_2.htm   (831 words)

  
 Jasenovac
Too numerous to be executed in its entirety, the Orthodox Serbs were to be eliminated by a triple policy: one third (including the educated and the well to do) were earmarked for execution, another third was to be expelled to German-occupied Serbia and the remainder was to be assimilated through forcible conversions to Roman Catholicism.
Of necessity, the ecclesiastical part of the Ustasha genocide could not be perpetrated without the full-fledged complicity and collaboration of the Croat Catholic Episcopate headed by the Archbishop of Zagreb, Dr. Aloysius Stepinac.
Instead, in 1998, in a rumored prelude to canonization, Aloysius Stepinac was beatified by His Holiness John Paul II.
www.jasenovac.org /news_read.php?nID=41   (349 words)

  
 German Roman Catholic Scandal In Kosovo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Stepinac decided to become a priest in 1924 and was sent to Rome to prepare, and was ordained six years later on October 26, 1930.
At the end of the war, Stepinac was found guilty of Nazi collaboration at a mock trial, and was convicted and sentenced sixteen years' hard labour on October 11, 1946.
At his trial when his life was on the line, Stepinac asked his communist prosecutors: "...every nation has the right to independence, then why should it be denied to the Croatians?" He spent five years in the prison of Lepoglava, and in 1951, Tito's government released him and confined him to the village of Krasic.
www.orthodoxchristianity.net /forum/index.php?topic=3120.0   (4169 words)

  
 Chris Agee - The Stepinac File
Although there is no single essay devoted to Stepinac alone, Butler’s J’accuse, his shrewd and meticulous portrait of a compromised prelate, belongs to one of his quintessential modes: the focus on the single personality through which a wider historical, cultural and/or ethical picture is adumbrated.
If the several dozen passages assessing Stepinac are extracted and conflated, the result is an extraordinary tour de force, notable for its subtlety on three counts: the marshalling of primary sources; the parsing of coded meanings; the fair-mindedness of his moral delineation.
For those familiar with the case mounted in defense of Stepinac, this is the key document, for extracts of the accompanying resolution would later often be used to absolve Stepinac of any responsibility for the conversion campaign.
www.archipelago.org /vol5-1/agee2.htm   (6136 words)

  
 Stepinac Aloysius - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Shortly after the war ended, the Tito government nationalized various sectors of the economy, imposed restrictions on the Roman Catholic Church, and...
Gonzaga, St Aloysius (1568-1591), Italian Jesuit priest and patron saint of Christian youth.
He was born in Castiglione and educated at the...
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 CARDINAL ALOYSIUS STEPINAC IN LIGHT OF DOCUMENTATION
Stepinac, then as before later on, vindicated the right of the Croatian people to self-determination and to their own state.
After Stepinac's declaration the defense lawyer Dr. Ivo Politeo perorated in his characteristically remarkable fashion, a courageous and dauntless thing to do in those times.
Stepinac was sentenced on October 11, 1946 to sixteen years of forced labour and imprisonment, deprived of his civic rights and his property confiscated.
www.magma.ca /~rendic/stepinac.html   (6941 words)

  
 "Holiness and Timeliness"
Blessed Aloysius Stepinac, the heroic Archbishop of Zagreb during both the fascist and communist days of harsh control over the people of his land, died as a martyr, "having endured in his own body and his own spirit the atrocities of the communist system" in the words of Pope John Paul.
Stepinac was one of the few men in Europe who raised his voice against the Nazi tyranny, precisely at the time when it was most dangerous to do so."
What is clear in the life of Stepinac is that as soon as he realized the truth, he fearlessly fought for it even against those who had brought independence to his native land.
www.rcan.org /archbish/1998/10-14-98.htm   (572 words)

  
 The Case of Archbishop Stepinac
This document assembling facts in the case of Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac of Yugoslavia has been prepared because the arrest and trial of the Archbishop are still being used in the United States in a campaign of misrepresentation against the Federal Peoples Republic of Yugoslavia.
To understand fully the role Archbishop Stepinac played during the crucial pre-war years, as well as during the war and after the liberation of Yugoslavia, it is necessary to remember the centuries-old struggle which the South Slavic peoples, the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes and Macedonians carried on for their independence.
Stepinac was informed of every mass conversion performed in the individual parishes.
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 Sava Bosnitch: Evidence conflicts on pope`s war actions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Too numerous to be executed in its entirely, the Orthodox Serbs were to be eliminated by a triple policy: One third (including the educated and the well to do) were earmarked for execution, another third was to be expelled to German-occupied Serbia and the remainder was to be assimilated through forcible conversions to Roman Catholicism.
The ecclesiastical part of the Ustasha genocide could not be perpetrated without the full-fledged complicity and collaboration of the Croat Catholic Episcopate headed by the Archbishop of Zagreb, Dr. Aloysius Stepinac.
Instead, in 1998, in a rumoured prelude to canonization, Aloysius Stepinac was beatified by His Holiness John Paul II.
www.artel.co.yu /en/reakcije_citalaca/2002-06-10_1.html   (349 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Archbishop Stepinac": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Archbishop Stepinac, who was a man of deep personal piety and puritan tastes, could not fail to welcome the NDH's new decrees...
Ante Pavelic, as the leader of the Ustashi, was hailed as the fuhrer of New Croatia and solemnly blessed by Archbishop Stepinac in a ceremony at the Cathedral of Zagreb.
Archbishop Stepinac had insisted that conversion had to be voluntary and might only follow religious instruction.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Archbishop-Stepinac   (499 words)

  
 September 28 DAILY CATHOLIC TEXT Section Two (sep28tx2.htm)
Although Cardinal Stepinac roundly condemned the racial policies of a short-lived Croatian nationalist regime, he has been repeatedly accused of pro-Nazi sympathies because he had originally welcomed the effort to oust a government which Croatians saw as oppressive.
The Holy Father is scheduled to beatify the former archbishop of Zagreb in the Croatian town of Marija Bistrica on October 3.
Stepinac was cited by the cause for his beatification as martyr for the faith who was persecuted by Yugoslavia's Communist government.
www.dailycatholic.org /issue/Sep/sep28tx2.htm   (1452 words)

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