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At noon on February 11, 1929, in the Papal Hall of the Lateran Palace, the representative of Pope Pius XI, Cardinal Pietro Gasparri and the head of the Italian government, Benito Mussolini, proclaimed the Vatican State — 44 hectares of land under the exclusive jurisdiction of the pope, with the right to send and receive diplomatic missions and other attributes of sovereignty. The Holy See received 750 million lire in cash and 1 billion lire in 5 percent Italian government securities as compensation for church property nationalized in 1870.
Soon the Duce outlawed Freemasonry, exempted the clergy from taxes and tried to save Catholic banks from bankruptcy. At the same time, Protestants and Muslims were under pressure. Under the influence of Mussolini, politicians, including the king, began to take part in divine services.
In response, the Church became an ally of the fascist Party on many fronts. Firstly, Pius XI forbade his spiritual children to support socialists and communists. One can recall the campaign for an increase in the birth rate, and the fight against the "Negro" fashion for dance shows, and the attitude towards Orthodox churches in Palestine, Albania, Greece… Crucifixes were hung in state institutions, compulsory lessons of the law of God were introduced in schools, chaplains returned to the army.
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>>1036059The forces of class struggle make alleged rivals side eachother
>Mussolini had solved the Roman Question by accommodating the church all the way. The Fascist state had made possible what the protest of four popes to the liberal Italian state could not because it still needed the support of the curia. It was, as former Italian prime minister Francesco Nitti wrote, quite simply “a capitulation of the Italian government.”80 “Because what benefits does the Italian state have?” asks Nitti in an enlightening essay. “Nothing but the recognition of the real situation that has existed since 1870. Who would ever have believed that Rome would once again be ruled by the Pope? Not even anyone in the Vatican would have believed it. I have been talking with the leading persons from the Church about the Roman question for thirty years. Nobody has ever seriously asked me for Rome or even the tiniest plot of Italian soil. But what has the Vatican now actually received? A territory, albeit a very small one, but recognition as a sovereign state. It has also received a sum whose amount is unique in the history of the Church … the capital of a world bank.”>Apart from the political pact, the Fascists also concluded a concordat with the curia in which they also made unusual concessions. Catholicism became the state religion, church marriage equal to civil marriage, divorce impossible,and religious education compulsory at all elementary and high schools as the “foundation and crowning achievement of public education.” Antichurch books, newspapers, and films were banned; criticism and insulting of Catholicism were made punishable by law. Indeed, the state committed itself to coordinating its entire legislation with canon law. Of all the concordats that Pius XI had concluded until that time (with Latvia in 1922, Bavaria in 1924,Poland in 1925, Lithuania in 1927), the concordat with Fascist Italy was the most beneficial to the curia. As Francesco Nitti wrote, it extinguished two centuries of domestic development and abolished the intellectual independence of the country.>The church rejoiced. On February 13, 1929, the pope once again praised Mussolini as the man “who was sent to us by Providence” and shortly afterordered the clergy to say a prayer “for the King and the DuPost too long. Click here to view the full text. No.1036228
>>1029346Even in Asia where the church were extremely pervasive in multiple US backed fascist dictatorships. Like how south korea kept making up insane christian evangelical cults. Or how the Diem south vietnamese dictatorship was in fact a vatican backed dynasty that incorporated catholic personalism into fascism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C3%B4_%C4%90%C3%ACnh_Th%E1%BB%A5c>Diệm's rule was authoritarian and nepotistic. His most trusted official was Nhu, leader of the primary pro-Diệm Can Lao political party, who was an opium addict and admirer of Adolf Hitler. He modeled the Can Lao secret police's marching style and torture styles on Nazi designs.[69] Cẩn was put in charge of the former Imperial City of Huế. Although neither Cẩn or Nhu held any official role in the government, they ruled their regions of South Vietnam, commanding private armies and secret police. His youngest brother Luyện, was appointed Ambassador to the United Kingdom. His elder brother, Ngô Đình Thục, was Archbishop of Huế. Despite this, Thuc lived in the Presidential Palace, along with Nhu, Nhu's wife and Diệm. Diệm was nationalistic, devoutly Catholic, anti-Communist, and preferred the philosophies of personalism and Confucianism.[70][71] No.1036320
>>1029346you also have older groups like action franchaise in france which itself wasn't fascist but ended up influencing a lot of fascists (french marxist georges sorel who would go on to inspire bits of fascism also joined them)
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>>1035990I hate myself for vaguely recognizing that name
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>>1036228The Vietnam one wasn't really surprising as Vietnam was ruled by France with plenty of Jesuit influence for many years