Robin Harris, Author at Catholic Herald

Robin Harris

How the Catholic Church preserved Croatia’s history, tradition and culture

July 16, 2020

Although battlefields are part of history, history is itself a battlefield. The liberal-minded West forgot that, hence the shock now felt as statues are tipped into the sea and memorials defaced by left-wing ideologues and mobs. Nations that experienced communism, however, never enjoyed the luxury of a neutral historical understanding. The Party sought to erase

A Balkan tragedy

January 04, 2018

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) doubtless hoped that its final judgment, on November 29, in the case of Prosecutor v Jadranko Prlić et al – otherwise known as the “Croat Six” – would round off its work nicely. The tribunal had recently sentenced Ratko Mladić, the Serb general who ordered the

The smearing of Cardinal Stepinac

November 10, 2016

The wartime Croatian archbishop's canonisation is being held up by a deceptive campaign

The smearing of Stepinac

November 03, 2016

Four boxes of documents in the Croatian state archives in Zagreb are what remain of the so-called “Dossier Stepinac”, the UDBA (Yugoslav secret police) files relating to Blessed Alojzije Stepinac, cardinal archbishop of Zagreb. The papers have over the years been weeded, and the full collection should be much larger. But what is left confirms

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