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2 years agoThe new pope and Mussolini essentially rose to power together, forming an alliance. The church’s open embrace of the Fascists was critical to the government’s power and to ending the enmity between the church and secular authorities.
The pope was also jaw-dropping antisemitic. Jews did not have many friends in the Catholic Church.
And that their two-letter country code, commonly seen in Swiss domain names, is CH for Confoederatio Helvetica.