Croat Catholic clergy participated in and abetted Ustashe genocide
Evidence
The role of the Catholic Church in the atrocities of the Ustashe state has been a source of deep bitterness to Serbs. The highest-ranking Catholic at the time, Bishop Stepinac, was a Croat nationalist who celebrated the coming to power of an independent government. When the depravity of the Pavelie regime began to show itself, Stepinac was slow to condemn it and slow to condemn the role of many Catholic priests in instigating the killings and, in numerous cases, actually supervising or carrying them out. After the war, a Croat monastery in the Vatican became the center for the smuggling of Ustashe war criminals to safety. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 185
Related
- Serb Orthodox clergy actively supported the genocide and ethnic cleansing (similarity 0.81)
- Croat forces destroyed Orthodox churches but not systematically like Serbs (similarity 0.80)