Allies Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact of 1929.…

— Christopher Hitchens

The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas…

— Adolf Hitler

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

— Samora Machel

At the first meeting I had with the (Italian) bishops in May 2013, one of the three things I said was: with the Italian…

— Pope Francis

I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

— Pope Francis

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so…

— John T. Flynn

I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

— Matteo Salvini

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

— Richard M. Nixon

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom…

— Dario Fo

But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got…

— Bernadette Devlin

I'm a federalist. I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

— Matteo Salvini

The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

— Pope Francis