And he fled to Argentina and never repented. Conventionally he would be an odd person for the church to host memorial masses for. Unless of course,,,they were old friends.
How many of the perpetrators of the Katyn forest massacre have ever repented or been brought to justice? How many of the perpetrators of the Holmodor in Ukraine? Both sides in these struggles were far removed from America’s ideals, but apparently only one is held to account. In the meantime, Red China (which forcibly aborts second children being born to women) is our trading partner and “friend”; our first lady (Hillary) even attended a women’s conference there...
Francisco Franco had it right; he saved his country from communism, then remained neutral as two devils fought for mastery of Europe (saving countless Jewish refugees in the process). Even he was ostracized by the west until the Cold War, when the US went to him hat in hand to ask about setting up bases in Spain; he accepted, and his speech at that time is touching - it reflects the ambiguity ot west in dealing with what he had done a decade earlier, and the new attitude of the US towards him was all the vindication he needed.
“And he fled to Argentina and never repented.”
How do you know he NEVER repented? Seriously, how do you know he didn’t do it on his death bed, for instance?
“Conventionally he would be an odd person for the church to host memorial masses for. Unless of course,,,they were old friends.”
In Croatia many people view him as a hero. What one parish or even one diocese in Croatia does has no reflection on the Church in general.