ROME – Even as he was forming an alliance with Adolf Hitler, former fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was urging the Vatican to step up opposition to the German ruler and even ex-communicate him, secret Vatican archives have shown.
“It’s absolutely amazing since it seems to fly in the face of facts, but the proof is there in the archives,” Emma Fattorini, a professor at Rome’s Sapienza university, told Reuters on Friday.
Fattorini, a historian who has been studying the Vatican’s archives on relations with pre-war Germany since they were opened to scholars in February, said the documents show Mussolini was playing a “double game.”
Although in his adult life Hitler was not a practicing Catholic and was critical of the religion, he had been baptiszed a Catholic by his mother.
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Baptized a Catholic, our mystery politician “was not a practicing Catholic and was critical of the religion.”
Multiple choice: Is he:
—Teddy Kennedy —Patrick Kennedy —Adolf Hitler —All of the Above
Ok, here’s another clue. He aided and abetted a Culture of Death that led to a holocaust of the innocent.
Hitler may or may not have been a “practicing” Catholic, but he subscribed to the Church’s long-standing anti-Jewish teachings.
“Therefore, I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews, I am doing the Lord’s work.” — from “Mein Kampf”
As I understand it, the Pope at the time pretty much looked the other way while Hitler’s regime killed so many Jews.