POPE AND MUSSOLINI.
FASCIST DOCTRINE REFUTED. CHURCH AND EDUCATION. Australian and N.Z. I'ress Association. (Received May 16, 7.45 p.m.) ROME. May 16. Pope Pius, in an address to ex-students of the' College of Mondragone. near Capua, whom he received it) audience, challenged the Fascist thesis expounded bv the Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, that education was primarily the duty of tho State. The Pope said it lay first and above all with the Church and the parents,
Referring to Signor Mussolini's doctrine that "wB- must give youth the sense_ of the power and virility of conquest," the Pope asked, "What would befall us if all States brought up their youth on ideas of conquest ? "The Church does not intend to forgo its educational rights." .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20257, 17 May 1929, Page 11
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