Communists and others have smeared Pius XII and Alojzije Stepinac ...

... is Jorge Mario Bergoglio or Pope Francis next?

[Series: 1) Communists and others have smeared Pius XII and Alojzije Stepinac ... ; 2) I do not favour Kevin D. Annett in these things ... ; 3) To Wilfred Fox Napier, reputedly Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church ; 4) Answering itccs, first 34 minutes of evidence, five charges and no Catholic culprit so far ; 5) Watching exhibits 1 - 14 (first video ITCCS, continued) ; 6) Bishop Coudert has offered to pay for hospital ... ; 7) Was Catholic Church main culprit in Canada? ; 8) This is Not a Mortara Case]

MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
seems to think so:

The Wall Street Journal:
Behind the Campaign to Smear the Pope

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324077704578362701947035938.html

I have already myself defended in this connexion, the kind we deal with when clerics are accused of collaborating with bad régimes, both Pius XII and Stepinac:

HGL's F.B. writings:
Pie XII aurait arreté les tuéries de Juifs s'il avait parlé?

http://hglsfbwritings.blogspot.fr/2011/02/pie-xii-aurait-arrete-les-tueries-de.html

That one was in French, this is in English (Stepinac comes among a list of others involves in Acharya S' smear campaign):

somewhere else:
Oh, just how cruel were the Christians?

notontimsblogroundhere.blogspot.fr/2011/04/oh-just-how-cruel-were-christians.html

Smear campaigns have been promised long before they happened. Their perpetrators succeed the people who called the real Christ a demoniac when he came 2000 years ago (some of whom still look for another, alas!)/HGL