As the author of the book "Jasenovac Then And Now: A Conspiracy of Silence", (1997) It was encouraging that you
published, "A Plea for Pope Francis to Pray at Jasenovac." In my interview with the late Patriarch Pavle, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, he told me he invited the Pope to come to Jasenovac to join him in a mass/liturgy to commemorate the dead on this 50th anniversary in 1991. The Pope refused saying, "Its too dangerous to come to the Balkans at this time." However, in 1993 the first pope in history went to Croatia at the height of the Bosnian Civil War. His first official duty was to lay a wreath on the tomb of Archbishop Stepinac, an ally convicted war criminal. The Roman church has beatified this criminal priest, an insult to Serbs and their murdered relatives.
At the end of WWII, 740 Roman Catholic priests fled to Argentina through the "Vatican Ratline." I list them by name including their war crimes in my book. These priests murdered thousands of Serbs with their own hands, and escaped justice making the current sex crimes against children by Catholic priests pale in comparison.
As the first Plaintiff in a law suit against the Vatican Bank for "money laundering," the only crime for which we can sue, it is past due that a Pope apologize for the crimes of the Roman Catholic church and to compensate the relatives of their victims who were killed at Jasenovac, including 90,000 Serbian children under the age of ten.
President Franjo Tudjman destroyed and bulldozed the Jasenovac Concentration camp and museum in 1995.
William Dorich, Beverly Hills
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