FASCISTS ALARMED
Italy’s Anti-Nazi Feeling
Anti-Nazi feeling in Catholic Italy is becoming so strong that the Fascist Government is seriously disturbed by it. The latest evidence of this is a violent attack on anti-Nazi priests by the “Regime Fascist” owned by Farinacci, former secretary-general of the Fascist Party.
“We ourselves,” says the writer, “have actually heard certain priests of big parishes formulate insidious reservations against the Axis. We ourselves have heard of spiritual advisers of nuns causing prayers to be said against ’the new persecutors of religion.” He also attacks the “Osservatore Romano,” the Vatican organ, which, he complains, “sows so much confusion in the consciences of patriotic Catholics.”
Farinacci himself writes: “We make no exceptional demands on certain prelates and Catholic scribblers. We only ask that they should hehave towards their country as the British, American. Canadian, and Brazilian co-religionists behave.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22471, 5 January 1943, Page 3
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142FASCISTS ALARMED Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22471, 5 January 1943, Page 3
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