Thomas Edwards

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Mussolini’s Complicated Relationship with Catholicism

From militant atheism to the Lateran Pacts, Mussolini’s fraught engagement with Catholicism shaped Fascist Italy and beyond
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Pope Leo at the Blue Mosque

But perhaps the most striking symbolic moment of the papacy so far came on his first foreign Apostolic journey. The Holy Father arrived in Turkey, the cradle of Christianity which...