ZAGREB, April 10 (Hina) - The latest issue of the "Glas Koncila" weekly, also available on the Internet, runs an article by Stipan Bunjevac who argues with an article on the Web Site of the American Memorial Museum of the Holocaust
Victims in Washington. Bunjevac claims this to be an "anti-Catholic pamphlet".
ZAGREB, April 10 (Hina) - The latest issue of the "Glas Koncila"
weekly, also available on the Internet, runs an article by Stipan
Bunjevac who argues with an article on the Web Site of the American
Memorial Museum of the Holocaust Victims in Washington. Bunjevac
claims this to be an "anti-Catholic pamphlet". #L#
"Glas KoncilaK", a Catholic weekly, draws attention to a paragraph,
"The Holocaust Period in Croatia: Jasenovac 1941 - 1945" and then
cites a contentious section of the text.
Ustashi forces, often encouraged by the Catholic Church,
implemented a programme of forced re-christening of Orthodox Serbs
to the Catholic faith. Any opposition was punishable by death. Some
Serbs, particularly members of the echalance, were not allowed to
change their faith in an attempt to avoid oppression, the text
reads.
According to Bunjevac, it is "shocking how many untruths,
contradictions and generalisations", are expressed in these three
sentences.
"A lot of space has been dedicated to the misuse of the notion of
're-christening', as we see here too, because, as is well known, the
Catholic Church recognises the value of the sacraments (including
christening), conducted by the Orthodox Church, so there is truly
no point in constantly denying the Masonic-Communist
interpretation of Catholic sacramentology", the author notes. He
adds that it was quite irresponsible to use such a generalisation as
"programme of forced re-christening" and encouragement "on behalf
of the Catholic Church", and it is logical to question the theory of
"forced re-christening" and "avoiding oppression".
Commenting on the paragraphs "Collaboration with Germany" and
"Victims", the author notes that it is difficult to accept the
writing where members of the Ustashi are written with a capital "U"
along with the national symbol for "Germans". "It appears that
reference is being made to two nations - 'the Germans and the
Ustashi', which closely resembles the writing of the author of the
Serb Memorandum (Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences) about the
'genocidal tendencies of the Croatian nation'", the author of the
weekly's article notes. He believes that it is completely
unacceptable to comment on the theory about "Muslim victims", whom
the "regime attempted to re-christen to Catholicism", and that they
were oppressed for religious reasons rather than political or
racial reasons.
"If members of the current government truly believe in the
reputation of the country they lead and the people that voted them
to power, then it would be worthwhile for them to respond to such
untruths and accusations", the author of the article, dated April
14th, writes.
(hina) sp sb