An offer we must refuse. The wealthy can buy influence in politics, they must not be allowed to do so in the Church
La Croix International
(Massimo Faggioli) It was exactly 90 years ago that Fascist Italy and the Holy See
signed the Lateran Treaty, thus settling the "Roman question" that had
been created by the loss of the Papal States and the conquest of the
Eternal City by Italian troops in September 1870. The treaty of Feb. 11, 1929 was a diplomatic triumph for both Benito Mussolini and Pope Pius XI. (...)