Post by ralfy on Feb 12, 2021 8:43:33 GMT
Actually you are semi mistaken about the Catholic Church calling itself "The Mussolini Church". The name Mussolini is the same name as "Jacob" in a different language. Jacob was Israel which means "Contender with God". The Catholic Church calls herself "The New Israel". Therefore, the Catholic Church essentially calls herself "the new Mussolini".
The nation of Israel bore the same name as a man named "Israel" and that man was Jacob. Mussolini means Jacob. Israel became a nation, and later evolved into a Church with the new Covenant and the atonement sacrifice, but even before that when Christ said "Upon this rock I will build my Church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it".
I was being sarcastic. The reason for "Non abbiamo bisogno" was Mussolini's "pagan worship of the state." You are free to challenge the Church on that.
www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_29061931_non-abbiamo-bisogno.html
But the Papacy does qualify as a Monarchy, it just is not a hereditary Monarchy, and the Cardinals act like Children of the King.
That's just a label! We're looking at a state that's essentially a city and has only a few hundred citizens. And the view that Cardinals are children of a monarch is absurd.
Yes, I know it's a tiny country, but there isn't a rule that you need to have a certain population to qualify as a monarchy.
Tiny? I've seen villages larger than that!
You are also mistaken about there being nothing Fascist about Catholicism. . The Doctrine of Fascism contained many of the same faith and moral teachings as the Catholic Church, and the Fascist government in Italy enforced Catholic teachings by outlawing abortion, gay marriage, making swearing on television or radio a crime, outlawing pornography, frowning upon divorce, and dissaproval of artificial contraceptives.
Complete and utter nonsense, as non-fascist promote Catholic teachings.
The Pope qualifies as a Dictator because he is a leader of a single party nation with absolute authority to override any decision any other member of the government makes. He doesn't shed blood, but one reason is essentially he only allows people to live in his country who are like-minded, of the same faith, and who are obedient to him.
That argument is wrong! The Pope is guided by tradition and Sacred Scriptures, just like all Catholics.
Anyone in Independent Vatican City State who decides they can oppose the Pope repeatedly would face serious consequences if not be entirely kicked out of the country, excommunicated, or be stripped of their faculties.
That's not even needed! One can go against Church teaching and be punished accordingly.
The Catholic Church is also Fascist in another sense, and that is we have a history of crowning people like Charlemagne who had the same dreams as Benito Mussolini essentially, the Holy Roman Emperors, Napoleon Bonaparte, and countless nationalist monarchs who were ultraconservative, militant, and highly patriotic who had every mark of being a Fascist Dictatorship according to the Doctrine of Fasciism (which is the intrinsic nature and essence and very definition of Fascism.)
Of course! It's called realpolitik. And the Church works with non-fascists, too.
Nationalist monarchs? Many of them came from different regions and ruled combinations of regions!
The definition of Dictator is simply a non Democratic leader who has absolute power of a single party state, with ultimate authority to override any decision that other people involved in government make. There is nothing in the definition of Dictator that says that a Dictator has to kill people to qualify as a Dictator.
Even Communists who opposed fascists had dictators!
You obviously have never read Mussolini's "Doctrine of Fascism" which is the definition of Fascism. You also don't seem to know what the definition of Dictatorship is.
But the main reason the Church is somewhat "Fascist" is because Catholic Faith, morals, Spirituality, and call to defend Catholicism is contained in the very definition and essence of Fascism (the Doctrine of Fascism.)
What is the point in reading Mussolini when you cannot even prove that the Church is fascist? All you have so far are claims that the Church is in one sense or another fascist because of one aspect or another, but so are non-fascists!