RELIGION IN ITALY
Ml ST BE TAUGHT BY STA’IT
J>AR ENTS’ 11 KHPONSI B! LI I fKS NOT RECOGNISED.
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Signor Mussolini, in tin* Senate, declared that the State alone could give the requisite religious instruction to children, supplementing it with disciplinary measures. One must have regard to the realities of lile. Those who maintained that the teaching of children was a matter solely iur the familv were saying something wholly inconsistent with the realities of life.
A modern family was engaged unceasingly in the struggle for daily bread, and could nor. teach anyone. Only the State could undertake the task. Italy needed a virile, warlike education. Having interests to defend every day, she coukl not yield to the lure of univoralism which could be understood in' people who had arrived, but. could not be permitted in people who had not arrived
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10908, 28 May 1929, Page 5
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