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Article: Hitler's Pope.(Pope Pius XII)(Brief Article)
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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The New York Times recently ran an obituary for the Reverend Mario Zicarelli, a seventy-eight-year-old Italian-born Catholic priest who served several parishes in the New York metro area. Zicarelli was occasionally in hot water with the New York archdiocese because he was a strong champion of public rather than parochial schools.
He held that tax aid for denominational schools violated the constitutional principle of church-state separation and warned his parishioners not to regard parochial schools as refuges from integration. Such a stance was really not all that unusual. During the period of Italian immigration to the United States around the turn of the ...