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Handout #244 |
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In the Face of Totalitarianism |
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Italian Fascism
We are in the presence here of a whole series of authentic affirmations and no less authentic facts which beyond doubt aim at and to such a considerable degree have already been successful in monopolizing the young, from earliest childhood to adulthood, for the full and exclusive use of a party and a regime. This is on the basis of an ideology which is explicitly resolved on pagan statolatry (worship of the state), real and proper, as much in conflict with the natural rights of the family as with the supernatural rights of the state. For a Catholic, to claim that the Church and the Pope must limit themselves to the external practices of religion - the mass and the sacraments - and that the rest of education belongs totally to the state, cannot be reconciled with Catholic doctrine. Pius XI, Encyclical Non abbiamo bisogno, 29 June 1931. |
