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...pale, thin man who lay dying last week behind a police guard in his native village of Krasic had never worn his cardinal's red robe. But no living prince of the Roman Catholic Church had a better right to it than Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac, 61, Roman Catholic Primate of Yugoslavia. For years, he was a silent but unforgotten symbol of the war between Communism and Christianity, but he did not come quickly to his calling. The seventh of eleven children born to a farm family, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I, was twice...
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...
Debarking in Manhattan after a summer in his native Yugoslavia, Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, 76, told of a visit he had paid to a lifelong friend: Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, 61, prisoner of the Tito regime (either in jail or under close surveillance) since 1946. The cardinal is in "good spirits and fairly good health," said Mestrovic. Had the cardinal been tortured...
...earth's four corners the cardinals came, each with his two "conclavists"-usually a fellow cleric and a layman-who are permitted to accompany cardinals into the conclave enclosure as aides. Only two cardinals are expected to be absent when the conclave begins this week. Both Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, Primate of Yugoslavia, and Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, will stay away from Rome for the same good reason: Stepinac is under house arrest, Mindszenty a refugee in the U.S. legation in Budapest. And even if they could get to Rome, their governments would deny them reentry...
...surviving members of the Sacred College (full strength: 70) would attend the conclave. Of the Iron Curtain cardinals, only Poland's Wyszynski seemed likely to come to Rome. Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, living in the American legation in Budapest, and Yugoslavia's Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, ailing and confined to his village, almost surely cannot attend. Other doubtful participants: France's Georges Cardinal Grente, 86, and Chile's Jose Cardinal Caro Rodriguez, 92, both in poor health; Nationalist China's exiled Thomas Cardinal Tien, ailing in a West German hospital...