"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."
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From the secret address to the Lombard clergy on 17 January 1939. As quoted in P. Beltrame-Quattrocchi, Al di sopra dei gagliardetti. L'arcivescovo Schuster: un asceta benedettino nella Milano dell'"era fascista", Casale-Monferrato, 1985, pp. 262-263. As reported in Emilio Gentile, Contro Cesare. Cattolicesimo e totalitarismo nell'epoca dei fascismi, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2010, pp. 429-430. ISBN 978-88 07-11107-5.
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Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
1880 – 1954
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