[Romulus]

Though he had good reason to loathe and fear the Communists, Archbishop Stepinac was very swift to dissociate himself from the Pavelic government. He had neither sympathy for no control over the renegade Franciscans who backed the Fascists. For you to post an inflammatory picture without context or commentary marks you as better than an agitator and propagandist. Your choice to toe the KGB line is inexplicable unless you're haunted by some personal or ethnic grudge that you deal with by projecting it all on the Archbishop.

[DTA]

>>>>>>>>>>Though he had good reason to loathe and fear the Communists, Archbishop Stepinac was very swift to dissociate himself from the Pavelic government.He had neither sympathy for no control over the renegade Franciscans who backed the Fascists.<<<<<<<

How about those who were not "the renegade Franciscans" but regular clergy, under his iurisdiction?

For example Father Krunoslav Draganovic, who was a head of State commission for distribution of property confiscated n from Serbs and Jews. The Canon of RC Church prohibits clergy to accept such posts. Draganovic was not defrocked for distributing loot. Quite contrary, Stepinac sent Draganovic to Vatican. One can not go to Vatican without Holy See approval.

How about RC nuns who run Jastrebarsko concentration camp for children? RC nuns are not free to go and choose a job outside of Church without being given tacit permission to do so.

How about forced conversons? Some were done by "renegade Franciscans" but not all of them.

List can go on. Roman Catholic Church of 1940s was not an organisation without hierarchy. In Croatia, Stepinac was on top of that hierarchy.

It is true that Croatian Communists made a show trial for Stepinac and accused him of things he did not do. They made a martyr out of him.

Puting him on a fair trial and charging him for things he did would be more than enough.

The key issue is erasure of historical record of genocide perpetrated in Croatia in 1941-45 and the role Roman Catholic clergy of Croatia had in it.

Last June, lawyers representing Vatican bank in San Francisco court claimed that genocide of over 500 000 Serbs and 60 000 Jews was "not against international law" (!) and that their client did nothing wrong to keep the proceeds from the crime worth several billion U.S. dollars.

Because you are fond of pictures, here is one, audience of RC clergy with Ante pavelic, Fuehrer of Croatia:

With so many renegades, one wonders how Archbishop Stepinac was able to run his archdiocese.