Friday, January 12, 2007
UNHOLY TRINITY
Since the news media is exposing the scandal of the Irish sheltering of Nazis, and of communist cooperation of Polish priests and bishops, I wonder if they will return to the scandal of the Church's Bosnian Nazi smuggling, UNHOLY TRINITY, once again.
The book was published in 1991, and the revised edition in 1998, and is billed as a "#1 international best-seller" on the cover. It tells the story of the Bosnian Franciscans and the Vatican's collaboration in running the Vatican Ratlines that spirited the Nazi leadership out of harm's way after the Second World War. There was a possible connection from behind the Iron Curtain as well if Mark Aarons and John Loftus have it right. In a church filled with scandal these days, this one is another ugly stain.
The details of this scheme are so interwoven and convoluted that I would have to read the book at least one more time to understand them. The authors leave no doubt that the Vatican and even Pius XII were part of the arrangements, and Franciscan Father Draganovic was the ringleader. Focused on the threat communism posed to the Church, leaders concluded the Nazis, who would know how to fight communism, would have to be sheltered; and sheltered they were, mostly in South America, with the help of the British.
This is the story that begins E. Michael Jones' unmasking of the scandal that is Medjugorje. Welcome to the New Springtime.
