Now that we have examined the conduct of what Mr. Malachi Martin so confidently refers to as "Christ’s Church" during the era of its political and religious supremacy in India, how nice it would be were we able to consign such conduct to a bygone era, knowing that the Vatican had reformed its concept of morality to coincide with the teachings of Christ! Surely in this day and age of moral enlightenment such papist outrages could be forever consigned to the historical trash heap!

If the history of Portuguese Imperial Christianity in India were an isolated case, one could be excused for accepting at face value Mr. Martin's glowing account of Pope Paul's globalist strategy. Unfortunately the well-documented history of papal supremacy shows that Rome's outrageous conduct in India was no isolated case. The very term Inquisition is synonymous with the terrors of the Dark Ages. Yet are these memories not also something to be forgotten or looked upon as milestones in man's struggle towards a global new age of enlightenment?

If this were the case then this author would not be wasting his time writing this book. The sad reality is that one of the most despicable and cowardly religiously-inspired acts of genocidal butchery has been perpetrated against a small ethnic group of people during times within easy memory of many alive today. We speak of the Vatican's planned destruction of a sovereign state by encouraging and abetting Croatia to declare its independence from Yugoslavia during World War II.

It is not the purpose of this book to launch into the history of the conflict between the predominantly Roman Catholic Croatians and the Orthodox Christians and Jews of Yugoslavia and in particular, Serbia. Such eminent authors as Avro Manhattan of England and Edmond Paris of France have superbly documented Catholic leadership in this tragic struggle. But we will refer briefly to information contained therein to demonstrate that Papal Rome has not had a conversion to true Christianity, nor can we expect a future globalist papal-led system to allow, let alone "guarantee, the rights and freedoms of the individual".

In short, we shall demonstrate that any promise of a Vatican-led utopia is just another stratagem designed to blind the world to the Vatican's lust for the absolute power which she enjoyed during the Dark Ages.

During the few years leading up to World War II, three infamous dictators who strutted the world stage were staunch defenders of Roman Catholicism.' They were Mussolini of Italy, Franco of Spain and Hitler of Germany. All three were Fascist-like dictators, all three were loyal Catholics, and all three dutifully negotiated a concordat with the Vatican.

Any country which signs a concordat with the Vatican is committed to the aims of the papacy and f will commit its total resources to furthering those aims. The reward for placing their resources at the disposal of the "government of God" is a guaranteed form of political stability underwritten by the "Vicar of Christ".

It is extremely doubtful if any of these dictators would have achieved their position of power had they not been supported and trained by their Roman Catholic constituents at the instigation of the Catholic hierarchy. Let us take an example: Avro Manhattan in his book "Catholic Terror Today" gives a detailed account of Cardinal Pacelli's machinations in promoting Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler to power. From the years 1917 to 1929 Pacelli was papal nuncio in Munich and later in Berlin, "the cradle of Nazism". While in that role he helped pave the way for a papal alliance with Fascist Italy known as the Lateran Treaty and a Concordat signed in 1929. Article 20 of the Concordat compelled all Italian Bishops to swear allegiance to Mussolini (Ibid. p.129).

In 1930, Pacelli's efforts were acknowledged and he was promoted to the position of Secretary of State where he was able to influence the German Catholic Party to negotiate with Hitler. By 1932 Hitler's rising popularity caused the Vatican to see him as a winner. Manhattan reveals the result of Pacelli's secret negotiations with Hitler:

"A quid pro quo was agreed upon. The Vatican - or rather, Pacelli - would:

(a) Help Hitler to power;

(b) Order the Hierarchy of the church to support Nazism; and

(c) Remove the Catholic Party.

In return Hitler would:

(a) Share his Government with Catholics;

(b) Grant a privileged status to the church; and

(c) Sign a Concordat with the Vatican.

("Catholic Terror Today" p.129)

Manhattan goes on to tell how over the next couple of years Pacelli was responsible for influencing.the Catholic President Hindenburg to promote Hitler as Premier. This was achieved in early 1933 with the Catholic Von Papen as his Vice-Premier. Before the year was out, members of the Catholic Party followed Pacelli's orders and gave Hitler more than the two-thirds majority needed to make him the Fuhrer and dictator of Germany.

Soon after this, Hitler repaid his debt by signing the Concordat with the Vatican, thus ensuring the religious and political support of the papal hierarchy. Article 16 of the Concordat ensured that there would be no misunderstanding in the minds of the Catholic prelates:

"I swear and promise to honour the legally constituted [Nazi] Government. I will endeavour to avoid all detrimental acts which night endanger it."

"Clause 30 stipulates: "On Sundays and on Holy Days special prayer will be offered... for the welfare of the German Reich..." (Source "Catholic Terror Today" p.130).

Said Catholic Von Papen, Hitler's second in command: "The Third Reich is the first power which '. not only recognizes but puts into practice the high principles of the Papacy." (Ibid.).

As the leader of the Axis Powers of World War II, Hitler's early successes were seen by him as milestones toward the setting up of the "Thousand Years Reich". The Roman Hierarchy preferred to see it as the commencement of a papal millennium.

Among the great hates endemic to the papacy, we could mention three that pertain to religious organizations - they hate the Jews, they hate the Orthodox Christian Church, and they hate Great Britain's state Church. England is the country which more than any other nourished and spread the Protestant Reformation which, although begun in Germany, quickly succumbed to Jesuit intrigue. All three religions represent rites and worship over which Rome has no control. The latter two are described by Rome as schisms, or renegade from "Christ's Church". They do not submit to the authority of the Bishop of Rome, nor do they have any regard for his imaginary "Petrine keys" of an invented Apostolic Succession. Both have another practice obnoxious to Rome - they base their faith and practice on what Rome calls "Waldensian Bibles". These Bibles, common to the Byzantine tradition and handed down by the Eastern Orthodox and Western Celtic churches to Protestantism, are in disagreement with the Roman Catholic Vulgate Bible of Jerome, the interpretation of which is the sole preserve of the Church and its traditions.

History recalls Hitler's "valiant" attempt at Jewish genocide. There is no point in spending time proving it for, to our readers or their parents, it was contemporary history. The Nuremberg and subsequent trials of Nazi war criminals provide indisputable documentation.

Hitler's efforts to crush Britain accorded with the Vatican's plans to redress Spain's failure to Catholicize England at the time of the defeat of the Spanish (and Portuguese) Armada. Although now a greatly diminished bastion of Protestantism, there were sufficient of the intelligentsia in Britain to realise that Hitler was mounting a frontal attack on a perceived enemy of the papacy. While Britain was sorely pressed with her back to the wall, Prime Minister Churchill rallied His Majesty's subjects with his battle cry "Nothing matters now but victory". In the hour of extremity, he blurted out the fear that few Protestant politicians dared to make public - that a victory for Hitler would herald the return of the Dark Ages on the "gleaming wings of science". After all, had not the celebrated historian J.A. Wylie described "the noon of the papacy" as "the midnight of the world"?

Thus we see that it was the Vatican which put in place the dictators who were to ravage Europe during the Second World War. For the unspeakable terrors perpetrated under their regimes, Cardinal Pacelli who in 1939 became Pope Pius XII, must not be denied credit. His willing assistants, already strategically-placed in key positions of power in Europe, soon showed that their allegiance to the Pope transcended their duty to their homeland. Manhattan identifies the "Trojan Horses" that delivered Belgium and France into Hitler's bloody hands:

"In Belgium, we find a Leon Degrelle, the Catholic Fascist Leader; we see a Cardinal counsel the Belgian King and thus decide the fate of a country. In France we meet a Papal Knight, Laval, a Jesuit general, Wegand, and another Catholic, Marshal Petain.

When, finally Hitler attacked Russia, Catholic volunteers from all Catholic countries rushed to the Russian fronts, with the blessings of the Church." ("Catholic Terror Today" p.132).

Soon, stories detailing terrible atrocities in German-occupied territories were being received by British intelligence. In 1941 the victorious armies of Germany overran Yugoslavia. There they were welcomed by the Roman Catholic Church whose members dominated the area known as Croatia. Practically ever since the setting up of the state of Yugoslavia following the First World War, the Croats had been agitating for independence. A rabid Roman Catholic by the name of Ante Pavelic had emerged as the leader of a subversive separatist group known as the Ustashi.

At that time, Fascist Benito Mussolini, whose expansionist aims caused him to support any unstabilising force in the Balkans, stepped up moral, political and financial help to Pavelic. Part of this help included a plan to eliminate King Alexander of Yugoslavia. After a failed assassination attempt in Zagreb in 1933, Mussolini took over, charging his son-in-law, Count Ciano, with the organization of a second attempt.

On October 6, 1934 his plans reached fruition when Alexander was killed by a bullet within minutes of his arrival in Marseilles.

But Hitler also had plans for the Balkans. On July 25, 1934 he had succeeded in murdering the Austrian dictator Dollfuss. Who would succeed in deciding the destiny of Yugoslavia?

In the meantime, Pavelic had taken advantage of the situation and had set Ustashi recruiting and training organizations in both Germany and Italy. When in April 1941 the Ustashi leaders in both countries finally moved in a two-pronged attack against Yugoslavia, the Germans moved quickly and went in with them.

Only then did the extent of the Roman Catholic plot to wreck the kingdom of Yugoslavia become known. Their aim was to set up a Catholic Fascist State of Croatia. The new state was proclaimed on April 10, 1941. Manhattan comments:

"The promotion of such a large treacherous body within the country would have been impossible without the active co-operation of the Catholic Church. Pavelic's terrorist bands, the Ustashi, had been morally and financially encouraged and supported by her. Indeed, their backbone had been formed by priests, monks and even bishops. Monasteries had been used as the clandestine headquarters of the Ustashi long before the Nazi attack. Secret separatist and military activities had been disguised for years under the cloak of religion. The Catholic priesthood in Croatia, Herzegovina, and Dalmatia had repeatedly convoked so-called Eucharistic Congresses which in reality were for extremist political purposes." ("Catholic Terror Today" p.18).

Manhattan continues:

"On that very day the newspapers of Zagreb carried announcements to the effect that all Serbian Orthodox (Church) residents of the new Catholic capital must vacate the city within twelve hours and that anyone found harbouring an Orthodox would immediately be executed." (Ibid. p.19).

This was the signal for the convicted murderer Ante Pavelic to leave his place of refuge in Italy and return to Yugoslavia with a bodyguard of Italian tanks. When he arrived in Zagreb, he was sporting a fascist black shirt. Historian Edmond Paris tells how the Catholic hierarchy of Croatia immediately threw their support behind Pavelic's black shirts. On the day after his arrival, "during the banquet of the Archbishopric, black shirts and ecclesiastical robes fraternally mingled. They, each in turn, gave toasts brimming with cordiality, and during the dessert flash bulbs photographed the edifying picture of his Grace reigning among the terrorists, which should be of interest to the historians of the future." ("Convert or Die" p.55).

Indeed, just fifty years on "into the future", the author of this book is very interested in present-day outcomes. The story of the horrific atrocities committed by the Ustashi over the remainder of World War II is both the sequel to, and partial achievement of, Pope Pius XII's plan to forcibly convert the Orthodox church throughout the Balkans and Russia to Catholicism. His support of Mussolini and Hitler was now paying off!

Edmond Paris continues:

"On Easter Day, 1941, Archbishop Stepinac announced from the pulpit in the Cathedral of Zagreb, the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia. Thus in the church itself, he celebrated high treason against Yugoslavia. The Archbishop ended his sermon with these words: 'Jesus our resurrected Saviour!... I will pray thee tell the Croatian people who are now facing a new era of life, what you told the Apostles after the Resurrection! Peace be with you!"' (Ibid. p.56, cit. "Katolecke List" No.16, 1941).

But the Archbishop failed to enlighten his audience as to the kind of "peace" he had in mind, for did not Christ draw a distinction between the peace given by God and the "peace" of the world? "My peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth,, give I unto you." (John 14:27).

Yugoslavia was soon to find out (the outside world much later)that the "peace" that the Catholic hierarchy had in mind for Yugoslavia was not just a worldly one. It would be flavoured by the subjective view of the Vatican and coloured by the blood of Serbians, both Orthodox and Jewish!

Not surprisingly, in the process the Roman Catholic church and the Ustashi would act as one, for had not the Fascists gained virtual control of Europe through the helpful offices of the Vatican?

Now the newly-proclaimed religious state of Croatia, protected by Nazi Germany to the north and Fascist Italy to the south, could wreak its vengeance against Orthodox Serbians in a full dress rehearsal for the expected extermination of the Orthodox church of Russia.

In his introductory chapter, "Christ and the Ustashi March Together", Avro Manhattan succinctly explains how the church achieved absolute control in Yugoslavia:

"If the first ingredient of Ustashi supernationalism was race, the second was religion. The two could hardly exist independently, having been so closely intertwined as to have become almost synonymous. The word "Croat", in fact signified Catholic, as much as, in Croatia, Catholic came to signify Croat. If this was useful to Ustashi racialism, it was no less beneficial to Catholicism, in so far as, once the theory had been established that Catholic meant Croat, the idea that Croatia had to be totally Catholic not only became firmly rooted: it was turned into one of the basic tenets of the new State.

"The results of such an identification were portentous. For, while nationalism had embarked upon a policy of 100 per cent racialism, the Catholic Church had embarked upon an inevitable parallel policy of 100 per cent Catholicism. The two policies were in effect one single policy, the political authorities automatically furthering the religious interests of Catholicism, while the religious authorities furthered the political interests of Ustashi racialism." ("Catholic Terror Today" p.41).

In the same chapter Manhattan details Catholic control of the press in a campaign to condition fair-minded Croats to the idea of a Christ-led Ustashi and a religious hatred towards Serbian Orthodoxy and the Jews, and even to the very concept of a Yugoslavian state. The press openly hailed the participation of Catholic priests as organizers and soldiers of the Ustashi while various Catholic leaders, both of the laity and the priesthood, quickly moved into administrative positions of state.

Prominent among those who advocated and joined in the Ustashi blood-bath were the Franciscan priests. One of their order, Mate Mogus, became first commandant of the Udbina district. After organizing Ustashi militia and disarming Yugoslav troops he gave a homily on June 13, 1941: "Look, people, at these sixteen brave Ustashi, who have 16,000 bullets and who will kill 16,000 Serbs, after which we will divide among us in a brotherly manner the Mutilic and Krbava fields." (Ibid.p.48).

"A group of Franciscan priests, who tortured and finally killed twenty-five Serbs in the village of Kasle, took photographs of their victims." (Ibid.).

The Franciscan, Anti Klaric, who became the first Ustashi commissar and the organizer of Ustashi militia,. castigated his parishioners during a sermon in 1941:

"You are old women and you should put on skirts, for you have not yet killed a single Serb. We have no weapons and no knives and we should forge them out of old scythes and sickles, so that you can cut the throats of Serbs whenever you see them." ("Convert or Die" p.114).

The Franciscan, Marko Zovko, also managed to earn himself a reputation among modern day necrologists. Manhattan gives him credit for "the murder of 200 persons, whose bodies were thrown into a ditch in a field in Vidovo ("Catholic Terror Today" p.49); but Paris throws more light on the activities of this papal zealot in the Herzegovina province:

"559 Serbs, all of them old men, women and children, were led to a deep crevice called "Gobibinka", massacred and then thrown into space. And to do the job thoroughly, hand grenades were hurled down upon the dying bodies." Then follows a list of names of the 16 assassins, one of whom is the Franciscan priest, Harko Zovko." ("Convert or Die" p.103).

No fewer than 51 names of Franciscan priests "and many others" are listed by Viktor Novak in "Magnum Crimen" and cited by Paris as organisers and attack leaders of the Ustashi militia (Ibid. p.53).

So we see how these Franciscan clergymen whose order was founded on three vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, interpreted their vows once they no longer came under civil or divine restraint. Not satisfied with their own depravity, they encouraged their flock to join with them in Rome's unique interpretation of the "moral laws of human behaviour, revealed by God through the teaching of Christ". No wonder Malachi Martin added the qualifier: "as proposed by Christ's church!"

As we have noted in the story of the Goa Inquisition, Rome has rather novel ways of bringing about mass conversions to her church. Her great missionary to the East, Francis Xavier, was not adverse to a little coercion such as the threat of the Inquisition stake, the installation for which he was mainly responsible.

Therefore it is not surprising that this form of evangelism was tried in Yugoslavia, but with one important difference. With the passage of a couple of centuries, "salvation" on popish terms had become considerably more complicated. The following memorandum of protest sent by a Serbian Orthodox priest to the General Commanding officer of German troops in Serbia will illustrate:

"From the very beginning, the Ustashi authorities have inaugurated a system of terror, where by they have forced many Orthodox Serbs to be converted to the Catholic faith. The close co-operation between the Catholic Church and the Ustashi authorities is known, which is also evidenced by the fact that among the Ustashi officials there are a great number of Catholic priests. The -first intimidation for conversion to Catholicism was directed against the State's employees, who were advised that in the Croatian State's employ only those Orthodox people might remain who would embrace the Catholic faith, but in effect this was only a ruse. Thus depriving the Serbian people of having their clergy, the Roman Church forced the Orthodox people to the Catholic rites. According to the testimony of Reverend Janko Veljakovic, pastor of Grbovic, the Catholic priests there led the armed Ustashi in the closing of Orthodox churches and the confiscation of church records, also in the plundering of all church valuables. At Banja Luka, an official order was issued directing that all the Orthodox Church records (of marriages, baptisms, burials, etc.) be delivered forthwith to Catholic parishes, which order was later extended throughout the territory of the former Croatian province. Catholic priests took possession of the Serbian Bishops' residence at Pakrac and locked and sealed the Cathedral all of which occurred April 12, 1941. ("Convert or Die" p.97).

Lest there should-be any lingering doubts in the mind of the reader as to the extent of the religious component in this rampant genocide let us hear from the head of the Religious Department, the priest Dionis Juricev in his speech to the citizens of Staza:

"Thenceforward only Croats will be allowed to live in this country because the country belongs to the Croats, and we shall have to take action against those who refuse to be converted. I have succeeded in cleansing other regions and have rid them of everyone, from infants to old men, and if it is necessary I shall do the same thing here. It is no longer considered a sin to kill a child of seven if he interferes with the Ustashi law and order. Although I wear the robes of a priest, I am often obliged to resort to the machine gun, and the minute anyone is against the state or the Ustashi who are in power, I make good use of it right down to the cradle." (Convert or Die" p.98).

And what of the Serbian Jews?

"The imprisonments and internments started en masse at the end of June 1941, and continued during the following months all through the year 1942, at the end of which practically no Jews were left in satellite Croatia except those who had not yet succumbed to the diabolical regime of the extermination camps." ("Convert or Die" p.117). (Paris claims that in pre-war Zagreb there lived about nine thousand Jews).

In August 1941 Archbishop Stepinac made known the official attitude of the Roman Catholic church towards Jews in a government circular over his signature:

"The following circular is forwarded to the soulsaving clergy in order that they may be informed regarding all those who are to be converted. Beside being in possession of the document of release from the Greek-Eastern Church, [ORTHODOX], each person must have a document from the District or Police Authorities as to the honesty of his character." (Ibid. p.117,118).

This automatically disqualified all Jews who might have been tempted to save their lives by "conversion" to Catholicism for a previous government circular of July 30, 1941 stated:

"The Government is acquainted with the fact that numerous Jewish people are presenting themselves for conversion to Catholicism, but the conversion to Catholicism has no connection with these people because of their status in relation to the existing law on non-Arians." (Ibid. p.117).

It was patently obvious that, in the sight of the Catholic hierarchy, the Jewish race were merely a human form of trash!

And as such they were treated:

"At Vlasenica... they were imprisoned all Jews, and at Ploce, led their wives and their daughters away to be raped and then slaughtered." (Ibid. p.116).

"At Bugojno, on August 2, 1941, the Jews, accompanied by the Serbs, were hauled away in trucks and taken to Cracanica. Once there, on the edge of a deep crevice where 1,900 Serbians lay dying in agony, they were massacred and hurled into space. A similar act occurred on the banks of the Sava where 340 Jews whom the Chief of Police from Brcko, Veceslov Montani, wished to 'liquidate', were taken one snowy night to the bridge. Their clothes were torn off, and their throats cut, and their brains bashed in with hammers." (Ibid. p.116).

The author considers that enough has been said to convince the reader of the type of Christian morality practised by Rome when she has established a "Christian" nation. Both Manhattan and Paris give seemingly unending documentation of CatholicUstashi brutality. Many of their stories concern the same atrocities as told by living witnesses - and both accounts are in agreement.

Both tell of the forced "conversions" of the fortunate few Serbians who survived the war by accepting this odious option. To many not even this option existed.

To conclude this unhappy reminder of Catholicism's outbursts of barbarism during one of its recent forays into "Christian" government let us summarize the feelings of these two brave historians to whom we are indebted for an account of mid-twentieth century Vatican-inspired conduct. First, from the martyr Edmond Paris:

"The Spanish Inquisition is noted for its atrocities. The head inquisitor, named by the Pope, was the Dominican Monk Thomas de Torquemada, who is remembered with such sinister bitterness. During the eighteen year period of his mandate, 10,220 persons were burned at the stake while 114,401 (according to the historian

Motley) perished from hunger and torture in their prisons, which meant 125,000 people within a period of eighteen years.

"This record is frightful enough, but the inquisition of the Serbian Orthodox was much more terrible, for 750,000 Serbs were killed in just four years." ("Convert or Die" p.5).

And now from Arvo Manhattan:

"Organised religion can be as powerful as guns. Indeed, more so. Since it can outmatch the destructiveness of armies, outsmart the fanaticism of political zealots, and mobilise human emotions to an extent denied to any lay unit. It will stop at nothing.

"The ordinary individual cannot accept as yet the startling facts that only a few years back, for instance, the Catholic Church advocated forcible conversions, helped to erect concentration camps, and was responsible for the sufferings, torturing and execution of hundreds of thousand of non-Catholics. Deeds coolly perpetrated by her lay and ecclesiastic members. Furthermore, that many of such atrocities were carried out personally by some of her Catholic priests and even monks.

"Many will reject as sectarian falsification, if not pure invention, what have been justly reckoned the greatest religious massacres of our century. They will not be the first to have done so. It took the author almost half a decade of painstaking investigation before he accepted what seemed unbelievable.

"The result is this account, documented from as authoritative and as varied sources as possible. Among them, people with whom the present writer became personally acquainted. Some of these played no mean role in the religious, political and military events herein narrated. Others were eyewitnesses. Indeed, not a few were victims at the incredible atrocities sanctioned and promoted by the Catholic Church.

"The names of most of the participants, Catholic laymen, military, priests, friars, bishops, archbishops and cardinals, as well as those of their non-Catholic victims, men, women and children, including clergymen, are as genuine as the names of the localities, villages and cities where the atrocities took place. Their authenticity can be verified by anyone willing to do so. Documents and photographs of Catholic concentration camps, Catholic mass executions and Catholic forced conversions, some of which are in this book, are kept in the archives of the Yugoslav Government, of the Orthodox Church, of the United Nations and of other official institutions." ("Catholic Terror Today", Foreword).

During the writing of this book events in Eastern Europe have moved rapidly.

With the disintegration of the Soviet Empire Malachi Martin's contenders for geopolitical supremacy have been reduced to two. Or are they in reality collaborators?

With the fast diminishing Communist influent we are now witnessing in the Balkans a repeat of history as the postwar reconstituted state of Yugoslavia is being again destroyed. Once again. Croatia is the catalyst for furthering the aims of inquisitive Christianity.

Beware all ye of Orthodox and other faiths that do not conform to Romanism, whether ye be in Serbia or the fragmenting remains of the USSR. The guardians of "Christ's Church" aspire to be custodian of your "rights and freedoms".

"Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?" (Jeremiah 13:23).