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Related: About this forumCroatia overturns conviction of WW2 'collaborator' Cardinal Stepinac
Source: BBC
Croatia overturns conviction of WW2 'collaborator' Cardinal Stepinac
22 July 2016 Europe
A Croatian court has annulled the 1946 treason conviction of a Catholic cardinal, ruling that he did not receive a fair trial.
Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, who died in 1960, initially supported the pro-Nazi Ustasha regime during World War Two, when he was Archbishop of Zagreb.
Critics say he should have done more to stop the Ustasha regime killing Jews, Serbs and Roma. In a 1942 mass he did however denounce racist attacks.
Catholics want him declared a saint.
The Zagreb County Court overturned the 1946 verdict on Friday, with Judge Ivan Turudic saying it had violated the right to a fair trial, prohibition of forced labour and the right to appeal. He said the goal had been "revenge against Stepinac".
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22 July 2016 Europe
A Croatian court has annulled the 1946 treason conviction of a Catholic cardinal, ruling that he did not receive a fair trial.
Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, who died in 1960, initially supported the pro-Nazi Ustasha regime during World War Two, when he was Archbishop of Zagreb.
Critics say he should have done more to stop the Ustasha regime killing Jews, Serbs and Roma. In a 1942 mass he did however denounce racist attacks.
Catholics want him declared a saint.
The Zagreb County Court overturned the 1946 verdict on Friday, with Judge Ivan Turudic saying it had violated the right to a fair trial, prohibition of forced labour and the right to appeal. He said the goal had been "revenge against Stepinac".
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Croatia overturns conviction of WW2 'collaborator' Cardinal Stepinac (Original Post)
Eugene
Jul 2016
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Iggo
(47,603 posts)1. A saint? What are his three magic tricks?
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)2. different rules for 'Martyrs' I believe...nt
Iggo
(47,603 posts)4. Used to be a Nazi collaborator, but then he got better.
Pretty low bar for sainthood these days...lol.
Brettongarcia
(2,262 posts)3. Why would anyone seek "revenge" on Stepinak...
...Unless he had done bad things.
As usual, the Church is whitewashing its own sins.
In this case, its collaboration with Nazis.
The clearer case though, is the Lateran Treaty. That the Church signed with Mussolini in 1929. And then the long and peaceful cohabitation of Mussolini and the pope, in Rome. For the next 14 years.