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Article: Delay beatification, Jewish group asks. (late Croatian Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- October 9, 1998
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Vatican officials accepted without comment a letter from a global Jewish organization requesting that the beatification of a controversial cardinal be delayed until after a historical review.
Pope John Paul II was to beatify Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac Oct. 3 during a Mass at the Croatian national shrine. Declared a martyr for the faith by the pope in July, Stepinac is considered by some to have been a Nazi collaborator because he did not openly oppose a German-installed puppet regime in Croatia during World War II.
In a Sept. 25 letter addressed to Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the Simon Wiesenthal Center asked that the pope "postpone this ...