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The United Nations chief prosecutor for war crimes claimed this week that the Vatican is sheltering Croatian war criminal Ante Gotovina.
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Students of Vatican history are familiar with the Vatican’s involvement with an organization known as Odessa that bankrolled the escape of many a Nazi from Europe following World War ii. They are also not unfamiliar with an underground network of safe houses and escape routes used by the Nazis in the closing stages of and years immediately following the war, known as the Ratlines.
Yet the general public remains basically ignorant of the high level of involvement of the Vatican hierarchy in the operation of the Ratlines that allowed safe haven in monasteries and other church facilities, and which used church manpower to facilitate the escape of countless thousands of Nazis to Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Canada, Australia and even the United States of America.
It may come as even more of a surprise to the average man in the street to hear that the current pope, Joseph Ratzinger, was connected to the operations of the Vatican Ratlines network of Nazi escape routes.
[...]“I have information he is hiding in a Franciscan monastery and so the Catholic Church is protecting him. I have taken this up with the Vatican and the Vatican refuses totally to cooperate with us” (September 20).
[...]the Vatican could probably find out where ‘in a few days.’”
[...]“the Catholic Church has the most advanced intelligence services” (ibid.).
[...]the Vatican informed her that it had no obligation to assist the UN track war crimes suspects.[...]However, as with Pope Benedict xvi’s stance on charges of the Vatican’s complicity in *** [orig. "pedastry"] in the priesthood, he simply regards the church as being above at least U.S. civil law. As the Vatican State informed the nation of Israel when it complained about Ratzinger’s failure in a recent speech on terrorism to condemn Palestinian terrorist acts against that country, no power may dictate to the pope!
So it is that the Trumpet feels the shadow of the old Nazi ratlines rising to once again cloud the prospects of true justice being imposed in bringing Catholic fascists to book. We have consistently warned of this past repeating itself. Now we are not only witnessing an approach by the Vatican to the Gotovina case identical to that applied to the sheltering of Nazi war criminals 60 years ago, we see none other than the pope himself directly involved, once again, in frustrating the course of true justice. Such a stance by Benedict, so early in his papacy, bodes ill for the future of Europe, and indeed the rest of the world.
