Chapter Thirty-SIx/The Great City Devastated - Passion-Arousing Wine - Continue

 "In this Pastoral letter of the 10th October [1935], the Bishop of Udine [Italy] wrote, 'It is neither timely nor fitting for us to pronounce on the rights and wrongs of the case.  Our duty as Italians, and still more, as Christians is to contribute to the success of our arms.' The Bishop of Padua wrote on the 24th October, the Bishop of Cremona consecrated a number of regimental flags and said" 'The blessing of God be upon these soldiers who, on African soil, will conquer new and fertile lands for the Italian genius, thereby bringing to them Roman and Christian culture. May Italy stand once again as the Christian mentor to the whole world.'

Abyssinia was raped, with the blessing of the Roman Catholic clergy. Could any of these claim, in any sense, that they were like the apostle Paul in being "clean from the blood of all men"? - ACTS 20:26. 

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