Cardinal alojzije stepinac biography of martini

Cardinal Stepinac – biography

Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac - biography
 
History always balances its accounts.

For years the Communists endeavoured to separate Croat Catholics from the Pope. They used all means to sever Church unity: vane pledges and threats; bribery and murder; trickery and torture.

The focal point in that artificial conglomeration, Yugoslavia, and other satellite countries to Moscow - was identical: the communist notion of the state must not allow the existence of any "alien powers" on its territory, much less that these "powers" be somehow tied to "foreign" or "supra-national institutions".

What disturbed the communist dream most were the tight ties of local Churches with the Pope.

In Tito's Yugoslavia, that Yugoslavia where communism had a "human face", Stepinac was arrested in 1946, sentenced during a shameful trial, imprisoned, and detained until his death (10 February 1960)