CHURCH VERSUS STATE
"A fight against religion is a fight against the impalpable—against the intangible; it is open warfare against the spirit in its most profound and most significant force, and it is by this time fully proved that the weapons at the disposal of the State, no matter how sharp they may be, are powerless to inflict any mortal blows on the Church, which emerges invariably triumphant after engaging in the most bitter conflicts." said Signer Mussolini in one of his earlier and more enlightened speeches. "When a nation goes to war, for example, it finds itself face to face with a concrete material entity, an entity capable of being attacked, shattered, mutilated and transformed, but when, instead of such a material entity, the adversary is a religion, it is impossible to take a definite and precise aim at any target. Passive resistance on the part of the priests and of the faithful is sufficient to frustrate the most violent attacks by a State."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23828, 7 June 1939, Page 15
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