Blessed Cardinal A. Stepinac - In memoriam

[retardinho]

She also found some 30k documents of which 5k was directly related to cases of people helping Jews, Serbs and other persecuted people. She also came up on extremely numerous occasion on the name Stepinac.

It should be noted that she knew basically nothing about this period and she never heard about Cardinal Stepinac. She also admitted of being prejudiced ... especially about catholic priest helping to save Jewish people. She witnessed in her book that Stepinac was indeed an honorable person.

[SuperGreatSphinx]

After foreign and domestic pressure, Stepinac was released from Lepoglava prison. In 1952 he was appointed cardinal by Pope Pius XII. Stepinac died while still under confinement in his parish, almost certainly as the result of poisoning by his Communist captors. In October 3, 1998, Pope John Paul II declared him a martyr and beatified him before 500,000 Croatians in Marija Bistrica near Zagreb. This again polarized public opinion.

[SuperGreatSphinx]

In a verdict that polarized public opinion both in Yugoslavia and beyond, the Yugoslav authorities found him guilty of collaboration with the fascist Ustaše movement and complicity in allowing the forced conversions of Orthodox Serbs to Catholicism.

[SuperGreatSphinx]

After the war he publicly condemned the new Yugoslav government and its actions during World War II, especially for murders of priests by Communist militants. Yugoslav authorities indicted the archbishop on multiple counts of war crimes and collaboration with the enemy during wartime. The trial was depicted in the West as a typical communist "show trial", biased against the archbishop; however, some claim the trial was "carried out with proper legal procedure".

[SuperGreatSphinx]

Stepinac also objected against the persecution of Jews and Nazi laws, helped Jews and others to escape and criticized Ustaše atrocities in front of Zagreb Cathedral in 1943.

[SuperGreatSphinx]

During World War II, on 6 April 1941, Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany, who established the Ustaše-led Independent State of Croatia. As archbishop of the puppet state's capital, Stepinac had close associations with the Ustaše leaders during the Nazi occupation, had issued proclamations celebrating the NDH, and welcomed the Ustaše leaders.

[SuperGreatSphinx]

Stepinac was ordained on October 26, 1930 by archbishop Giuseppe Palica, and in 1931 he became a parish curate in Zagreb. He established the archdiocesan branch of Caritas in 1931, and was appointed coadjutor to the see of Zagreb in 1934. When Archbishop Anton Bauer died on December 7, 1937, Stepinac succeeded him as the Archbishop of Zagreb.

[SuperGreatSphinx]

Aloysius Viktor Stepinac (Croatian: Alojzije Viktor Stepinac, 8 May 1898 - 10 February 1960) was a Croatian Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 to 1960. In 1998 he was declared a martyr and beatified by Pope John Paul II.

[alen1122]

GOD BLESS CARDINAL STEPINAC!

[Bhouncer]

i hope i am wrong. i have a genuine question from an objective point of view.

did cardinal stepinac abhor killing of all people? serbs, jews and other ethnic minorities as well as croats?

If he did confront pavelic and tell him to fuck off then tip my hat to stepinac =)

[KatarinaZrinska]

@Bhouncer Did you watch this video or not..Cardinal Stepinac spoke out many times against the killing of all people..no matter the race or nationality or religion...through his sermons in chruch, through his letters to Ante Pavelic. This is all well documented. Do you think that the American Jewish Society, The US Senate and US house of Represenatives would condemn the imprisonment of Cardinal Stepinac if they thought he was a nazi collaborator. No..of course the would not.

[BillyJimmyLee]

@Bhouncer

I think it is for the common wellfare for anyone to investigate and be cautious about these contradictory events. Why don't you keep questioning instead of asking for 'permission'. It is obvious that this guy got covered from the Roman church. How valid is this report? When was this recorded? Churches often even sanctify personas much more often forgive 'sins' ;) And even if he didn't condone the killings he was there during CONVERSIONS.

[KatarinaZrinska]

@BillyJimmyLee Cardinal Stepinac did say that conversions can be perfomed in order to save peoples lives but that those people would be free to return to their faith once the war was over. I guess to you it would have been better to have them all killed rather than allow them to convert to catholicism.

[Paintballerfromhell1]

@BillyJimmyLee Stepinac's diary is in Belgrade,Serbia.It has been there since Stepinac's trial.Croats want it pblished,Serbs don't.Strange isn't it.Serbs want to make all Croats look like some nazis from outer space.It's part of their nationalist propaganda.

[hehno1]

@hectorbolshevik

Stepinac will be a saint in a few years , so you are going directly to hell after death, cheer up. And give us Basarabia and Bucovina back vodkapeople.

[KatarinaZrinska]

@hectorbolshevik This was the speech given on the radio by Slavko Kvaternik on the day the Germans entered Zagreb and not by Cardinal Stepinac. Please get your facts straight before making stupid comments. You know nothing about Cardinal Stepinac except for the dirty propaganda you have been feeding your communist brain with.

[KatarinaZrinska]

Do all of you misinformed individuals really think that the American Jewish Society, The US House of Representatives, The US Senate would condemn the imprisonment of Cardinal Stepinac if he was a nazi or a fascist as your sick little heads believe he was. NO THEY WOULD NOT. There are over 40,000 documents now available, to confirm the fact that Cardinal Stepinac was a man of great faith who saved thousands of lives. To him every life was precious.

[ReginaGrlica]

Ljubav koju je blazeni Alojzije Stepinac imao za Hrvate i sve gradjane NDH zivi i danas i vazda ce!

Moli za nas blazeni Alojzije Stepinac

ne zaboravi nas!

i danas nas progone jer volimo i branimo sto je nase, od nikoga ne trazimo nista vec samo da nas puste da u miru zivimo i osmisljavamo svoje zivote u svojoj domovini Hrvatskoj

nasim neprijateljima otvori oci da vide koliko su zlo ucinli tebi i nama kad su te prerano oduzeli ovom svijetu otrovavsi te

pocivaj u miru blazeni Alojzije Stepinac

[VeritasVosLiberabii]

Cardinal Stepinac was a hero. May he rest in peace.

[KatarinaZrinska]

message for Serbs and others.. you will not have an opportunity to slander the blessed Cardinal Stepinac here on this video as I will not give you that satisfaction, so do not bother writing hate comments as they will not be published...Thanks...

[KatarinaZrinska]

@okvalsc

naš jezik???? tvoj jezik je jezik mržnje a ja ne govorim taj jezik niti ga je govorio pokojni Kardinal Stepinac. Sad prošetaj što dalje odavde.

[domrat5]

CARDINAL STEPINAC - H E R O

All those who believe otherwise stop reading ugly disgusting serbian propaganda.

[KatarinaZrinska]

All those who continue to believe the horrible lies that the communists and others have been spreading to the public since the end of WWII are just feeding their uncontrollable hunger for hatred toward the Croatian people.

[IanHunedoara8]

Beautiful Amazing Grace sung in Orvateana! Multimesc per himni mushat!

[IanHunedoara8]

Of him this is known- he confronted Ante Pavelic in 1943 and said to him- "Thou shall not kill!"

[KatarinaZrinska]

There was a world war going on at the time and Cardinal Stepinac spoke out against ALL killing of innocent people.

[IanHunedoara8]

Yes but that day on the steps of the entrance to Zagreb's cathedral the Cardinal was specifically referring to Jasenovac

[KatarinaZrinska]

Communication between Cardinal Stepinac and Ante Pavelić was mainly in written form. Cardinal Stepinac did protest human rights abuses and managed to save many lives. Please do not take the literature written by or any documentaries provided by serbian or yugo communist propaganda machines as the truth. They are anything but the truth.

[IanHunedoara8]

His eminence the Cardinal did not fall down like the evil Msgr. Tiso of Slovakia. For this Tito dared not harm him.

[KatarinaZrinska]

Tito did harm Cardinal Stepinac by poisoning him. But because Tito knew that the Cardinal had a lot of support outside of Croatia, this was done in a secret way..through poisoning his food and drink in jail.

[BillyJimmyLee]

@KatarinaZrinska

So you want us to believe that he never met the poglavnik guy? Did they have msn too?

[KatarinaZrinska]

@BillyJimmyLee As the leader of the Catholic church in Croatia he did meet with Ante Pavelić right at the beginning..right after Pavelić took over as the leader of the state. After that their communication was mainly in written form. Your MSN joke is not funny at all.

[VeritasVosLiberabii]

CardinaI Stepinac was an honorable man and there are stiII Iiving witnesses to confirm that fact. He was a very brave man who spoke out against aII vioIence and murder. May he rest in peace.

[KatarinaZrinska]

Message for serbs and  other haters- Do not bother Ieaving your ignorant hate comments about bIessed CardinaI Stepinac. They wiII not be pubIished.

[KatarinaZrinska]

poruka za srbe: nemojte se uzaIud truditi i ostavIjat vaše suIude poruke..predugo prIjate kardinalovo sveto ime aIi ovjde nećete imat tu priIiku

[ReginaGrlica]

Veliki Covjek, velika dusa je bio

blagopokojni Alojzije Viktor Stepinac

prerano smo te izgubili - Hrvatima i svijetu je uskracena tvoja dobrota i duhovno smo puno siromasniji radi toga!!!!!

pocivaj u miru Bozijem u raju nebeskom kad ti nisu zlocinci Srbi i domaci izdajnici dali mira na ovom svijetu

U tebe se uzdam Gospodine....

[CROBIK73]

...hvala ti sestro sto neumorno radis

na sirenju ISTINE I LJUBAVI....

Bog neka te cuva!!

[KatarinaZrinska]

Hvala i tebi na podršci.

[domrat5]

great job on the video. You put a lot of effort into it. Thanks.

Cardinal Stepinac lives on in our hearts and souls. We must never forget his great sacrifices and we will also never forget or forgive those who killed him and those who continue their dirty deeds by continuously slandering his name and his memory.

[MihaelRoma]

His sermons were not allowed to be printed publicly during the NDH (1941-1945). Glaise von Herstenau, a German Nazi general in Zagreb, declared: "If any bishop in Germany were speaking this way, he would not descend alive from his pulpit!" And when Stepinac visited the Holy See in 1943, he was warned that his life is in danger from the Nazis. There he said: "With God (=farewell), we are about not to see each other any more. Either Nazists will kill me now, or Communists will kill me later."

[MihaelRoma]

Thanks Katarina for your excellent work !

Beatus Stepinac figure is linked to that of the ancient martyrs: despite Diocletians intentions, the persecutions of the early centuries only strengthened the Churchs presence in the ancient world. Let us pray to the Lord, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Advocata Croatiae, Mater fidelissima, that the persecutions of modern times will lead to a new flourshing of Ecclesial life in Croatia and throughout the world.

[KatarinaZrinska]

Thanks Mihael!

[cooperatorveritatis]

serbian dominated communistic murderous regime killed him, like they killed more than half million croats after the world war II and about 600 other croatian catholic priests...they tried to kill the truth but we are still here...thank God for that...and thank God for KatarinaZrinska and her beautiful video about this holy man. Bog i Hrvati! 5*

[KatarinaZrinska]

Thanks for your support.