A letter of mine was printed in Salient, August 29, in which I said the Pope "ordered" the Catholic clergy in Croatia to become murderers during World War II. It occurred to me later many Salient readers are only familiar with the Pope's public image so they would find it difficult to page 20 believe without evidence that a modern Pope would do this.

In his speech in Gospic on 22 July 1941, Dr Budak spoke about killing some members of the Orthodox Church, deporting others and forcing the rest to become Catholics. Those who resisted conversion were murdered. Dr Simrak, the Bishop of Krizevci and former Apostolic Administrator, after attending a Bishops' Conference in Zagreb on 17 November 1941 which was organised by the Head of the Catholic hierarchy. Archbishop Stepinac, published a directive to all his clergy concerning forcible conversions, and the consequences, in the official "Bishopric News" of Krizevci (1942, No 2). In this it is stated "Our work is legal because it is in accord with official Vatican policy and with the directives of the Saintly congregations of the Cardinals for the Eastern Church".

One of the main reasons no publicity is given to the Cahtolic Church's activities during World War II, but publicity is given to the atrocities committed by the German fascists is that the Catholic Church has members and sympathisers scattered throughout the News Media while the National Socialist Party doesn't have this advantage.