Re: Pius XII
- From: r@xxxxxxxxx (•R.L.Measures)
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:51:44 -0800
In article <eVY4n.62065$PH1.13264@edtnps82>, "Zadok"
<nobler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
With the 50th Anniversary of the death of Pius XII, the Vatican is again? The Vatican bank was also the apparent destination for the 50-tons of
pushing for his sainthood. While Pius can be legitimately criticized for his
tepid condemnations of the Nazi Holocaust there is no question he was
complicit in the deaths of at least 500,000 Orthodox Christian Serbs, Jews
and Roma murdered in Croatia, Bosnia, and Krajina during the Second World
War by the Axis allied Croatian regime.
The First Sin of Pius - Genocide
The first sin of Pius, complicity in genocide of at least 500,000 Orthodox
Christian Serbs, Jews and Roma in Croatia, Bosnia, and Krajina 1941-1945 by
the ultra Catholic fascists known as the Ustasha. The mainstream Orthodox
Christians (Pravoslavni) were killed because of their religion, the main
difference between Croats and Serbs. The Ustasha ranks were swelled by
clergy particularly Franciscan monks, priests and seminarians. A Franciscan
monk known as Fr. Satan was commandant at Jasenovac, the chief Croatian
concentration camp, where hundreds of thousands perished and the source of
much of the gold in the so called Ustasha Treasury.
The Ustasha leader Ante Pavelic was welcomed to the Vatican by Pius during
the Second World War and his representative Fr. Krunoslav Drganovic became a
fixture at the Holy See. While the Ustasha were busy butchering
coreligionists, Pius praised Pavelic for outlawing abortion in Croatia. The
Papal Legate Marcone in Croatia and
Cardinal Stepinac of Zagreb kept Pius and the Vatican well informed about
the extermination and forced conversions of the Serbs. Pius instead of
condemning the Ustasha blessed them.
The Second Sin of Pius -Obstruction of Justice and Money Laundering
After the collapse of the Ustasha regime in May 1945, the Ustasha leadership
fled towards Italy with their plunder, 200 million Swiss Francs mainly in
gold, robbed from their many victims. Waiting in Rome for the Ustasha
Treasury and Pavelic were two high ranking churchmen. One was the former
Ustasha official Fr. Draganovic now Apostolic Visitor for Croatia reporting
directly to Pius' Undersecretary of State Montini (later Paul VI). The
other was the former treasurer of the Franciscan Order (OFM), Fr. Dominik
Mandic, an Ustasha sympathizer who promoted bizarre racial theories of
Croatian superiority. Pavelic and his associates were hidden at safe houses
in Rome until they could flee to Argentina and the Ustasha Treasury was
taken to the Vatican Bank for safekeeping.
gold the SS stole from Jews they gassed.
The Third Sin of Pius -Historical Cover Up
The Vatican hid Pius' secret connection to the murderous Ustasha for
decades. In 1998 the US State Department released the Eizenstat Report
linking the Vatican to the Ustasha Treasury. This in turn led to the class
action lawsuit, Alperin v. Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order, still pending
in the US federal court system for an accounting and return of the Ustasha
Treasury to its rightful owners, the victims of the Ustasha.
The testimony of former US intelligence agent, William Gowen, who reported
on the Ustasha in 1947, has aided the lawsuit. Gowen stated that his
investigation in 1947 led him to believe that the Ustasha Treasury had been
concealed at the Vatican Bank and that the Vatican was implicated at the
highest level with Pavelic. Professor Michael Phayer followed in 2007 with
a well researched book, Pius XII & The Cold War, setting the record
straight.
However, instead of seeking truth and reconciliation the Vatican and
Franciscans have fiercely defended against the lawsuit on technical grounds
while the few remaining survivors of the Ustasha atrocities dwindle to
handful.
? thanks for posting info on these little known events Zadok. I find it
amazing that Vatican, Inc. does have the good sense to let sleeping dogs
lie.
--
R.L. Measures. 805-386-3734, www.somis.org
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