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 We have already reviewed the illicity religio-political relationship  that catapulted Hiter into power in Nazi Germany. Other nations also suffered because of religion's meddling in secular affairs.  For example: In Fascist Italy, on February 11, 1929, the Lateran Treaty was signed by Mussolini Cardinal Gasparri, making Vatican City a sovereign state.  Pope Pius XI claimed that he had "given Italy back to God, and God back to Italy."  Was that the truth? Consider what happened six years later. On October 3, 1935, Italy invaded Abyssinia, claiming that it was "a barbarous land which practices slavery."  Who really, was being barbarous?  Did  the Catholic Church condemn Mussolini's  barbarity? While the pope issued ambiguous statements, his bishops were quite vocal in blessing the armed forces of their Italian "fatherland." In the book, The Vatican in the Age of Dictators, Anthony Rhodes reports:

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