Domenico Tardini

thumb|Mgr. Domenico Tardini thumb|Coat of arms of Cardinal Domenico Tardini, Vatican Secreatry of Satet from 1959 to 1961. Domenico Tardini (1881 - 1961) was an Italian bishop and cardinal. Quotes What will happen when the stark and painful reality opens the eyes of this innumerable mass of demented people? Che avverrà quando la realtà cruda e dolorosa aprirà gli occhi a questa innumerabile massa di dementi? Domenico Tardini, Previsioni e giudizi di Mons. Tardini sul conflitto tra l’Italia e l’Etiopia, in L. Ceci, «Il Fascismo manda l’Italia in rovina». Le note inedite di monsignor Domenico Tardini (23 settembre – 13 dicembre 1935), in «Rivista Storica Italiana» 1/2008, pp. 304-305 Everyone understands that the Holy See cannot stop Hitler. But who can understand that it does not know how to rein in a priest? Domenico Tardini, Vatican undersecretary, in March 1942 Ward James Mace Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia 2013 Cornell University Press Ithaca 0801468124 en harv 232 Quotes about Domenico Tardini While important Italian cardinals offered support to the military campaign and L’Osservatore Romano remained in a position of prudent legitimization of the war, Tardini assesses and judges the consequences on the clergy, that in his eyes represent ‘the greatest disaster. [...] [Tardini was aware that] the Italian Church is accused of being in league with Fascism. And with the Italian Church, the Holy See. The Holy See has never passed a more difficult period than this’, in which it risks ‘seriously compromising for a century the moral prestige’ accumulated. Alberto Melloni, Corriere della Sera. As quoted in Bishops seduced by Fascism, 30giorni.it, 2008, n°. 4. External links Category:Cardinals Category:1881 births Category:1961 deaths