The English Churchman recently carried the following comment:

Documents in the United Nations Archives in New York and the Yugoslav National Archives in Belgrade record how under Stepinac the Roman Catholic Church forcibly converted about one million Orthodox Serbs to her evil system and set up concentration camps where her ecclesiastics, including priests and monks, coolly tortured and executed a quarter of a million non-Roman Catholics who refused to bow the knee to her jackboot. Several were herded into their churches and burned alive, hung by the neck, disembowelled or stabbed to death, like Protestants in Ireland under Phelim O'Neill in 1641 and during the 1798 Rebellion.

These documents, together with the books by Manhattan and Paris, are vital reading for all who have been deceived by the mellifluous language of ecumenism emanating from an organisation which continues to boast that it will never change. They serve as a dire warning to all who would associate with and aid the Romanist murder-machine towards regaining power in the democracies of Europe and the world.

In taking sides against the Serbs in the present Yugoslav conflict, Clinton and Blair stand condemned for deserting one of our most courageous wartime allies. Britain and America stand exposed for carrying out the policy of the Vatican in the context of the European Union - a creation which the Papal Nuncio in Brussels has called "a [Roman] Catholic confederation of states" and in which the Vatican's goal is to marginalise Protestants, Eastern Orthodox Christians and all others who refuse to submit to her persecuting system.

Papal aggression against the Protestant peoples of the European "Catholic Superstate" envisaged by John XXIII had already turned eastwards in 1997, when the self-professed "Vicar of Christ" made a visit to the Czech Republic for a similar purpose. After holding an open-air mass in Prague, he went to Olomouc in northern Moravia, where he canonised a notorious anti-Protestant priest who was executed for treason in 1620 after he brutally converted Protestants to popery and arranged the slaughter of those who resisted. He also took over a southern Moravian Protestant parish after collaborating with Jesuits to evict its resident minister.

The canonisation of this Romanist thug, Jan Sarkander (1576-1620), caused widespread anger among Czech Protestants. Five of the evangelical church leaders who were due to meet John Paul II at an ecumenical round table were so infuriated that they boycotted the meeting. Pavel Smetana, chairman of the executive committee of the Ecumenical Council of Churches, said that the choice of Sarkander, described as "aggressive and greedy", would adversely affect relations between the Churches. He reminded the Pope that Sarkander was a representative of "the violent reconversion of Moravia to Catholicism". Czech National identity is intertwined with this crushed Protestant heritage.

Predictably, however, the Pope ignored the facts and stressed unity as the keynote of this visit. At an open-air mass in Prague on May 20 he described the Protestant protest as merely "a tragic moment of religious discord".

The Vatican's concept of a "peace process", as usual, involved a deliberate falsification of history that assures the elevation of thugs and murderers to the status of celebrities and saints. Ulster Protestants more than any others have been the victims of the same fascist tactics. They are well summarised in the following translation of an extract from the book With God and the Fascists by the German historian Karlheinz Deschner (Stuttgart, 1965). Deschner's intimate knowledge of Vatican politics enables him to reveal that the Vatican's relationship to fascist régimes including that of Nazi Germany was not merely one of collaboration, but of active involvement. I have translated the following extract from the original German:

The beatification and canonisation of these murdering thugs has not drawn as much as a solitary squeak of protest from the leaders of the ecumenical churches in the United Kingdom. One by one these pathetic dupes have appeased the apostate system whose head their confessions of faith declare to be the Antichrist. They have without exception treacherously and shamelessly renounced their solemn ordination vows to uphold the Protestant faith. Today in Northern Ireland, instead of preaching the Gospel, they publicly strut around in their stupor with the emissary of the Vatican, desperately seeking compromise and unity with a 'Church' whose murderer-beatifying Pontiff recently re-declared its dogmas to be "unalterable". As George Steiner once said in Language and Silence: "Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."

Archbishop Stepinac (right) at an Ustashi meeting with (right to left) General Roata, Commander of the Fascist Forces of Occupation in Yugoslavia, and other Nazis. As "Supreme Military Apostolic Vicar of the Ustashi Army", Stepinac participated in military and political functions, mingling with Fascist, Nazi and Ustashi Commanders.

A Roman Catholic priest forcibly "converting" a whole village of Orthodox Serbs. 'Father' Ante Djuric, of the District of Dvor, always opened his "sermons" with the following preliminary: "The Orthodox of this District have only three ways out: to accept the Catholic faith, to move out [leaving behind them all their possessions], or to be cleansed with the metal broom."

Failure to accept one of the three threats resulted in a rash of mass executions such as the public hanging of Orthodox Serbs in Sarajevo, 1945, depicted above.

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