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...whole, Jewish observers regard Stein's canonization--like John Paul II's beatification last week of wartime Croatian Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, who initially supported (but later denounced) his country's pro-Nazi puppet regime--as a small blemish on a sterling record. This is the Pope, after all, who established Vatican recognition of Israel, visited a synagogue and was host of a huge commemorative concert for the Shoah's victims. Yet there is concern that last Sunday's ceremony foreshadows another one: the pronouncement of Pope Pius XII as venerable, an act John Paul II reportedly hopes to accomplish...
...unprecedented and courageous, nonetheless says there are those who see Stein's canonization as part of a "strategy," that "if you show that everyone was a victim, then the church has no responsibility [and] no guilt in the Holocaust." Such conspiracy buffs might want to toss in the Stepinac beatification, Pius' prospects, parts of We Remember and the erection of crosses outside Auschwitz by right-wing Polish Catholics...
...from his student days at New York's General Theological Seminary, Shipler spent a lifetime being for or against virtually every cause that crossed his ken; he supported voluntary euthanasia and liberal divorce laws, feuded with the Roman Catholic Church by stating that Yugoslavia's Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac was a "quisling collaborator of Hitler." Indeed, after World War II, The Churchman was accused of leaning so far left that in 1948 George C. Marshall felt compelled to refuse its Good Will Award...
Yugoslavia (6,000,000 Catholics) offers considerably brighter prospects. The regime has abandoned its intransigent anti-Catholicism since the death in 1960 of Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac, churches are open and full of worshipers, a thriving religious press circulates freely. Yugoslav bishops easily gained travel permits to attend the Vatican Council or make their normal ad limina visits to the Pope. Last December, the Yugoslav Communist League Congress dropped its ban on religious practice by party members. A number of government officials formally congratulated Archbishop Franjo Seper of Zagreb after the announcement that he would be made a cardinal at Pope...
Those who remember Wilt as a youngster in Philadelphia might argue. But against Stepinac Alcindor poured in 37 points; against previously unbeaten Rice High last week, he hit a phenomenal 21 out of 23 field-goal attempts. A few days later, he scored 35 and pulled down 23 rebounds, as Power walloped St. Helena's High 71-57-for its 69th victory...