Sure Duce,

learning about the fascists and Italy sounds good. But maybe you should send it in several parts, so that there´s not too much stuff to swallow at one time ??!

That was kinda interesting, that deal with the Vatican and Mussolini.

"On February 11th, 1929, an historic treaty was signed between the Italian Government and the Vatican re-establishing the political power and diplomatic standing of the Catholic Church, which had been lost when Italy seized the Papal territories in 1870."

http://www.biblelight.net/wound.htm

Upon ratification of the Lateran Treaty, the papacy recognized the state of Italy, with Rome as its capital. Italy in return recognized papal sovereignty over the Vatican City, a minute territory of 44 hectares (109 acres), and secured full independence for the pope. A number of additional measures were agreed upon. Article 1, for example, gave the city of Rome a special character as the "centre of the Catholic world and place of pilgrimage." Article 20 stated that all bishops were to take an oath of loyalty to the state and had to be Italian subjects speaking the Italian language.

With the signing of the concordat of 1985, Roman Catholicism was no longer the state religion of Italy. This change in status brought about a number of alterations in Italian society. Perhaps the most significant of these was the end to compulsory religious education in public schools.

http://hist.academic.claremontmckenn...erantreaty.htm



Just thinking about Hitler and the church or Stalin and the church...quite different!

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