L' arcivescovo del genocidio

the long version

Marco Aurelio Rivelli is not a historian. This book is a pamphlet against Catholic Church, full of mistakes, omissions and personal raging opinions. Using some documents and discarding others the author tries to demonstrate the thesis according to which blessed Alojizije Stepinac was a ustasha regime supporter, played a role in massacres against Serbians. Rivelli could gather selected controversial documents emerged from the communist campaign against the Archbishop (who was sentenced and jailed, later probably murdered by the regime), but he is totally unable to understand them. The more charges they bring against Stepinac, the more trustworthy Rivelli consider them. On the other hand Rivelli omits completely Stepinac's homilies against racism, antisemitism, his frequent attempts to mitigate the fascist policy. The support to the Croatian indipendence is confused to the support of a fascist regime, which Stepinac rather fought. The book presents one way documents only with many commentaries based on the personal prejudices of the author. It is misleading for the comprehension of an important historical period in Croatian history.