{"id":7729,"date":"2003-09-26T13:01:30","date_gmt":"2003-09-26T18:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/09\/26\/mussolini-asked-vatican-to-ex-communicate-hitler\/"},"modified":"2003-09-26T13:01:30","modified_gmt":"2003-09-26T18:01:30","slug":"mussolini-asked-vatican-to-ex-communicate-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/09\/mussolini-asked-vatican-to-ex-communicate-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"Mussolini asked Vatican to ex-communicate Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">ROME &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;It&#8217;s absolutely amazing since it seems to fly in the face of facts, but the proof is there in the archives,&#8221; Emma Fattorini, a professor at Rome&#8217;s Sapienza university, told Reuters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Fattorini, a historian who has been studying the Vatican&#8217;s archives on relations with pre-war Germany since they were opened to scholars in February, said the documents show Mussolini was playing a &#8220;double game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">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.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/custom\/fringe\/sfl-926mussolini,0,2599954.story?coll=sfla-news-fringe\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME &#8211; 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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}