"Fascism does not consider religion to be the invention of priests or the tools to global domination used by a handful of powerful men.
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Fascism recognizes in Catholicism the enormous achievement of managing to adapt to a people like ours a religion born in the East from other peoples of other races. Catholicism is synthesis between Judea and Rome, between Christ and Quirinus.
Catholicism is the religion practiced by the enormous majority of the Italian people.
It is universal, because it was raised under the shield of an universal empire, and turned Rome into one of the most important centers of religious life in the world.
As one can see, Fascism's stance on Catholicism is very different than that of anticlericalism that used to be in place in that mediocre Italy of the post war."
- Benito Mussolini | "The Italian Popular Party and Us"
