"His [Pavelic] minister of religion was Andrya Artukovic, another Roman Catholic. Then began a war of suppression or extermination of all Serbs and Jews. Nearly 70,000 of the 80,000 Jews in the new state were killed or forced to flee, their property being confiscated. Official records and photographs show that Pavelic and archbishop Stepinac were closely associated in governmental, social, and ecclesiastical affairs. Stepinac was appointed supreme military apostolic vicar of the Ustashi army led by Pavelic. He was, therefore, in a position to know of the atrocities that were constantly taking place. In May, 1941, after innumerable massacres had been committed, Pavelic went to Rome and was received by Pope Pius Xll, and on the same occasion signed a treaty with Mussolini."

John Loftus (attorney who worked for the Justice Dept. Nazi-hunting unit--also an expert witness before Congress) and Mark Aarons (international award winning investigative reporter with Austria Broadcasting Corp.) corroborate Boettner's historical facts in their book Unholy Trinity, pages 70-87:

"Pavelic had many reasons for concern, among them the horrific massacres of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies over the previous four years; half a million innocent civilians slaughtered at his personal command. Many had been dispatched using extremely medieval methods; eyes had been gouged out, limbs severed, intestines and other internal organs ripped from the bodies of the living. Some were slaughtered like beast. Many more were simply burned I alive."

Scott and John Lee Anderson in their book Inside The League (Dodd Mead and Co. 1986) also speak of their atrocities.

"The Ustashi competed among themselves on how many of `the enemy' they could kill. In order to impress the poglavnik-Pavelic- and be promoted or singled out for `heroism,' the bands would pose with their victims before cameras. Captured photographs-they are too grisly to reproduce-show Ustashi beheading a Serb with an axe, driving a saw through the neck of an- other, carrying a head through the streets of Zagreb. /n all of them, the Ustashi are smiling and crowding themselves into the picture, as if to prove they had a role in the atrocity. Some Ustase collected the eyes of Serbs they had killed, sending them, when they had enough, to the Poglavnik for his inspection or proudly displaying them and other human organs in the cafes of Zagreb."

All this and Pavelic still expected to be greeted by both the Church and British leaders as a prominent Catholic in the struggle against 'atheistic Bolshevism'...Pavelic was also aware that Pius XII and his senior advisers held extremely charitable opinions of his militant Catholicism. The Pope did receive Pavelic and the British Foreign Office reacted in outrage calling Pope Pius XII "the greatest moral coward of our age."

In the same year that the Pope met with Pavelic, more than 100,000 Orthodox Serbian men, women and children were killed by the Ustashi:

"In all some 250 Orthodox churches were destroyed or turned over to Roman Catholic parishes and convents. Documents requesting and authorizing such transfers are now in the state prosecutors office at Zagreb and Sarajevo, bearing the signature of archbishop Stepinac. In February, 1942, a TE DEUM was sung in Stepinac’s church in Zagreb, the then capital of Croatia, with special honor's paid to Pavelic. In a pastoral letter Stepinac declared that in spite of complexities, what they were seeing in Croatia was ‘the Lord's work,' and called on his priests to support Pavelic" (Roman Catholicism, Boettner,436).

The reason for the support is because "during the war Pavelic had forcibly converted tens of thousands of Serbian Orthodox under penalty of death." (Loftus and Aaron) Although Pavelic was able to keep the death camps running as the German death camps were being dismantled, eventually Pavelic and the Roman priests had to run for their lives. The Yugoslav courts sentenced Stepinac to sixteen years imprisonment for his Nazi-Fascist collaboration, where he only served 5 years. Walter Montano, in his book Behind the Purple Curtain, expounds on those charges:

“A parade of prosecution witnesses testified at Zagreb, on October 5, 1946, that Catholic priests armed with pistols went out to convert Orthodox Serbs and massacred them. . . . Most of the witnesses were Croat Catholic peasants and laborers. One witness said six hundred and fifty Serbs were taken into a church under false pretenses, and then were stabbed and beaten to death by Ustashi members after the doors were locked. Archbishop Stepinac was convicted on all principal counts of aiding the Axis, the puppet Croatian regime of Ante Pavelic, and the terroristic Ustashi, and of glorifying the Ustashi in the Catholic press, pastoral letters, and speeches.” (237-238)

The sentence against Stepinac was answered by the Vatican's Osseruatore Romano denouncing it as "ignominous" and said the “trial was a trial against the Catholic Church”. (ibid., 238) Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, said that Archbishop Stepinac was "a victim of the forces that seek to destroy men's freedom, ruin America, and dominate the world." (ibid., 238) He also said the Yugoslav Archbishop had "defended the cause of true liberty for his hungry and harassed people" through the war, adding that the person and principles of Archbishop Stepinac were "violated".

"Bishop Charles F. Buddy of San Diego, California, wired President Truman asking for a ‘straight forward fearless protest of the infamous persecution of Archbishop Stepinac and the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia. Liberty-loving Americans are not indifferent to the vicious travesty intended to discredit this great patriot who has valiantly championed the rights of his people” (Behind the Purple Curtain, Montano, 239)

"Until his death in 1960, he was played up in Roman Catholic circles, particularly in the U.S., as a ‘martyr,’ even to the extent that cardinal Spellman, in New York, named a parochial high school after him" (Roman Catholicism, Boettner, 437).

Just think, a school named after a man who said:

"God, who directs the destiny of nations and controls the hearts of Kings, has given us Ante Pavelic and moved the leader of a friendly and allied people, Adolph Hitler, to use his victorious troops to disperse our oppressors...Glory be to God, our gratitude to Adolf Hitler and loyalty to our Poglavnik, Ante Pavelic" (A Woman Rides The Beast, Hunt, 301 ). Despite the crimes committed by Pavelic, Hitler,

The Church of Rome has a policy regarding freedom of religion: when they are in the minority, they want freedom from persecution; when in the majority, freedom to persecute. Rome has proven over and over again by their actions, when in power...they persecute. Mussolini, and all the priests and Catholics that assisted them {Note: Pavelic, Hitler, and Mussolini were all Catholics}, were never excommunicated, or even severely censured their actions. As a matter of fact, Rome went to great lengths to defend the actions of Stepinac. Jeremiah 23:14 says:

"...they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom and their inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah."

Years ago I heard Pat Robertson say:

"If the Catholics and the Evangelicals would join together, they could make the right decisions for this nation, for the world."

History shows us that the Catholic church has not made right decisions for herself, or for the world. The Vatican-Nazi connection exposes the darkness of Catholicism and should leave every one of us a little wiser about the true heart of the Roman Catholic system. Truth is not her goal, rather tyranny and dictatorship.

"For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity...The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgement in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace." (Isa. 59:3,4, & 8)

Pavelic hid out as a monk in a Catholic monastery until he could escape judgement. What a testimony to the Catholic hierarchy's justice for all. Most frightening are the words of Avro Manhattan in the Vaticans Holocaust, page 9, (Ozark Books, 1986):

“The uniqueness of the Independent Catholic State of Croatia lies precisely in this: that it provided a model, in miniature, of what the Catholic Church, had she the power, would like to see in the West and, indeed, everywhere. As such it should be carefully scrutinized. For its significance....is of greatest import to all the freedom loving peoples of the world."

by Rebecca Sexton