“In one way, the church’s ‘peace at any price’ policy is a historical improvement. The last instance I can find of Rome supporting a war was when it blessed Gen. Franco’s invasion of Spain, at the head of an army of Muslim mercenaries who were armed and trained by Hitler and Mussolini.”
From a savagely funny Hitchens article on the Vatican’s coddling of Iraq.
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