Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster

"After 16 centuries, here is another March on Rome, and here is another edict of religious peace, of that peace which was signed in the Lateran Treaty, and which, by giving Italy to God, gave God to Italy ... God also wanted to give the Duce a reward that brings his historical figure closer to the great spirits of Constantine and Augustus, surrounding Rome and the King with a new flourishing imperial laurel wreath, thanks to the work of Benito Mussolini."

"A kind of heresy has arisen abroad and is spreading everywhere, which not only attacks the supernatural foundations of the Catholic Church, but also materialises in human blood the spiritual concepts of the individual, the nation and the homeland, denies humanity any other spiritual value, and thus constitutes an international danger no less than that of Bolshevism itself. It is the so-called racism."

"There is much talk everywhere about goodwill and peace in order to avoid international conflict at all costs. But does not this Nordic philosophy [racism], which has become both theosophy and politics, constitute the forge where the most deadly weapons for a future war are being forged?"

"Among us, the Catholic Church today is faced not so much with a new fascist state, since this already existed in the year of the Concordat, but with a prevailing philosophical-religious system in which, although it is not said in words, the denial of the Apostolic Creed, of the spiritual transcendence of religion, of the rights of the Christian family and of the individual is implicit. [...] Faced with an apostolic creed and a Catholic Church of divine origin, we therefore have a fascist creed and a totalitarian state which, just like the Hegelian one, claims divine attributes for itself. On the religious level, the Concordat has been vaporised. [...] Now, if the principle of non-contradiction still applies in philosophy, everyone can see that between Christianity, based on the Decalogue and the Creed of divine origin, and this new Hegelian state, totalitarian, authoritarian, sovereign source of Catholic ethics and spirituality [...] – that Roman Catholicism, of course, which pre-existed Christianity itself – there is an irreducible antinomy. Christianity is essentially supernatural and is spirit. This Hegelian state, on the other hand, is material force and is entirely political. Christianity wants to love, fear and serve God; this formula, on the other hand, instead of statolatry, usurps the rights of God and opposes him. [...] In the fascist state [...] there is a single “absolute, totalitarian, entirely sovereign” entity which leaves no room for others and yields the sceptre to no one. It is the state which penetrates the very spirits and consciences of its subjects."

"The ancient crusades against the infidels should be considered from that supernatural point of view, which is precisely how the ancients viewed them. They represented the greatest effort of Christianity to prevent the brute force of the Muslims from destroying the civilisation of the Gospel. The soul of this powerful, long-lasting resistance, which was finally victorious at Lepanto and Vienna, was the Roman Papacy, which for over five centuries, sparing no sacrifice or expense, united the Catholic forces of every nation under the banner of the Cross and, directing them against the Crescent, spared Europe a great number of internal wars, ensuring its triumph over Western Asia and Islam."

"Once it was Islam that threatened Christian civilisation. Now it is Judaism, a people without a homeland, who therefore hate that of others, allied as they are with Freemasonry. Jews and Freemasons are waging a war against Catholicism and Europe that is all the more difficult and dangerous because it is so subtle. Even against this terrible danger, we must resort to the invincible weapons of prayer; and since we are not allowed to hate anyone, but are instead commanded to love everyone, even our enemies, we implore today the conversion of all these errant souls, those who have unleashed the terrible scourge of war and who alone have benefited from it: the Bolshevik Jews, Zionists, Freemasons, etc. – so that, converted all to penance, “Ecclesia ... tranquilla devotione laetetur”."

"Prodigy of the right hand of the Most High! To accomplish great wonders, He prefers to use abject instruments, sometimes the most unsuitable and despised by men, so that the result cannot be attributed to the creature, but to the Creator alone. Thus, in the fifteenth century, at the height of humanism, when the Christian powers themselves, instead of listening to the voice of the Supreme Shepherd and moving in unison against the Crescent that threatened the freedom of the civilised world, were engaged in subtle political rivalries among themselves. God raised up a poor son of St. Francis, who, gaunt in face, barefoot and destitute, moved half of Europe with his fiery words and led it to triumph under the walls of Belgrade. “Digitus Dei est hic”."