Nazi Hunter Warns Against Canonising Croatian Archbishop

[TomSea]

Nazi Hunter Warns Against Canonising Croatian Archbishop
Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff said that the canonisation of controversial World War II Croatian archbishop Alojzije Stepinac would be “a religious tragedy” because he didn’t condemn fascist crimes.
Sven Milekic  BIRN  Zagreb

fraim Zuroff, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s Israel and Eastern Europe office, condemned on Wednesday the ongoing push by the Catholic Church in Croatia to canonise Zagreb’s World War II-era archbishop Alojzije Stepinac.

“It is quite clear, and 100 per cent true that the Catholic Bishop Alojzije Stepinac was close to the [fascist] Ustasa regime of the Independent Croatian State [NDH]. He never spoke out against the system and didn’t condemn its crimes, and if he is canonised, it will be a religious tragedy,” Zuroff told Radio-Television Vojvodina.

Zuroff said that Croatian authorities should not honour Stepinac by naming streets after him or erecting monuments to him, as they did in the eastern city of Osijek last week.

“I tried to draw the attention of the authorities in Zagreb not to do so, but there's no justice nor truth,” he said.

Read More At: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/nazi-hunter-condemns-wwii-zagreb-archbishop-canonisation-02-16-2017

Who knows? Maybe Stepinac can be defended aptly from these charges. This has always been a topic.

White Plains, NY has a high school named after him.

[TomSea]

Here is definitely an opposing view and disagreeing with that in the article in post #1:

Blessed Alojzje Stepinac, a hero to stir the hearts of the most complacent Christians
He resisted the Nazis and then the communists, and was declared a martyr by Pope John Paul II

The annals of Catholic history are filled with saints who took a stand against king and country in defense of truth. Countless martyrs have gone singing to their deaths rather than deny Christ, while many others took their lives in their hands when they refused to bow to a state demanding injustice. Though Catholics may be the king’s good servants, we are (like St. Thomas More) God’s servants first.
- See more at: http://aleteia.org/2017/02/09/blessed-alojzje-stepinac-a-hero-to-stir-the-hearts-of-the-most-complacent-christians/#sthash.aFJZdPKR.dpuf

[The_Reader_David]

Canonizing him will kill any chance of reunion with the East.  The Ustashe ran the third largest extermination camp in Europe during WW II, targeting not Jews, but Orthodox Christian Serbs, and we Orthodox regard Stapnic as having been complicit.  Canonizing him will destroy any residual good feelings we have for the Latins left over from the Pontificate of Benedict XVI (uniformly regarded by us Orthodox Christians as the best Pope of Rome since the Latin schism from the Church).