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...like old Senator Tom Heflin lobbing one of his Confederate cannonballs at "the Pope of Rome" Not until the birth (in 1910) of the political party now led by Alcide de Gasperi were Catholics of modern Italy free to participate in politics. Under Pius IX's 1868 Non Expedit decree (it is not expedient), a Catholic could "neither elector nor elected" be; Pius deemed it a surrender for Catholics to join in the affairs of the determinedly anti-church regime, which had shorn, the Vatican of property and political authority in Italy. But as the political peril to religion...
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