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Entry: Patrick Buchanan and the Necessary Book Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/patrick_buchanan_and_the_necessary_book#30144 Post contents: Tobias, I guess if you and Zmirak say so that makes it so. I also suppose that the sitting president of Croatia is a fool for suggesting that the Catholic hierarchs in Zagreb had better come to Jasenovac one of these years and pray for the departed that so many of their predecessors help depart. While I may agree that Pope Pius may have been a force for good, it does not absolve Stepinac from what he and many (though not all) of his priests did during WWII: sanction, bless, aid, and abet the murder of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, and other 'undesirables'. The evidence is staggering. As for Sainted Tsar Nicholas II: "errors of policy" do not call for labeling a decent and Christian man a "jew baiter". I may be ignorant, but I have seen nor read of no proof to that effect. I am an Orthodox Christian who is very much in favor of Catholic-Orthodox reconciliation, and I very much like the work that Pope Benedict is engaged in to that end. And, as a Serb, I am proud of the role that the Serbian Orthodox Church has and continues to play to that end - particularly the conference hosted in Belgrade in 2006 that helped re-ignite stalled talks between the two halves of traditional Christianity. But truth telling is required as a prerequisite to any true reconciliation. Sent at: 2008 12 01