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...study in Rome. He was ordained a priest in 1930. Only four years later he was one of three candidates for an archbishopric submitted by Pope Pius XI to King Alexander of Yugoslavia. The King passed over the two other distinguished clergymen to make Stepinac, 36, the youngest archbishop in the church. Three years later, he was Archbishop of Zagreb, spiritual leader of the predominantly Catholic Croats...
Martyr Complex? In 1941, after the Germans took over Yugoslavia, they established a puppet state of Croatia, over which they put fanatic Nationalist Dr. Ante Pavelic. Archbishop Stepinac announced the founding of the new state from the cathedral and served on its councils, thereby earning the enmity of the Orthodox minority who were persecuted by Pavelic. Stepinac, however, opposed the excesses of the Pavelic regime, refused to accept its forcible converts to Catholicism, sheltered fugitive Jews...
When Tito came to power, Archbishop Stepinac denounced his antichurch materialism and his political tyranny, drew a 17-day jail sentence in 1945. Curious about such a stubborn prelate, Tito summoned him and saw at once what he was up against. He tried to avoid a showdown with this sallow, unsmiling man. "I do not want steps taken against Stepinac," he is reported to have said afterward. "He has a martyr complex." But the outspoken archbishop was getting to be too much of a hero; people began to kneel as he passed on his daily walks through Zagreb...
...soon about one-third of the strikers, worried about their families or tired of living like moles, got out by emergency exits. Wives and children of the remaining strikers gathered at the pithead to talk by phone to their men below on Mine Level 13. Spoleto's Archbishop Raffaele Mario Radossi, using the same phone, implored the strikers to surface and negotiate. Worried company officials struggled to keep the pumps operating and the ventilating system working so that the men would not fall victim to methane gas. The workers counted on attracting national attention to their little town...
Until now, Trujillo and the church have got along well. Archbishop Ricardo Pittini, Primate of the Americas, is now 83 and blind, but four years ago he signed a letter to the New York Times praising Trujillo and saying that "this 'dictator' is loved and honored by his people." Trujillo signed a concordat with the Vatican in 1954, and has served as godfather at Catholic baptisms of at least 3,800 children. His government is building a magnificent church...