In this essay, I argue that despite the Vatican’s condemnation of Nazi racism as an anti-Christian ideology, some Catholic sectors in Fascist Italy were not impervious to anti-semitic and racial prejudices. Looking at the discussion on race and anti-semitism in the propaganda of clerical Fascism and its simultaneous echo in Church discourses, this research delves deeper into the formation of a specific Catholic trend of racial anti-semitism that excluded Jews from a religiously and ethnically homogeneous definition of the Italian nation. A significant part of the propagandists of clerical Fascism attempted to define a racial and anti-semitic narrative that could be suitable for both Fascist racism and Italian Catholic culture. I examine the Catholic appropriation of racial anti-semitism on a broad spectrum of positions, ranging from Catholics who only flirted with racialist rhetoric to those who dismissed the transformative value of conversion because of alleged racial barriers. Challenging the traditional distinction between Christian anti-Judaism and modern anti-semitism, the examples under examination demonstrate the entanglement of religious and racial arguments in the shaping of a ‘Jewish race’ that was considered foreign to theitalianitàcelebrated by the regime.

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种族与信仰：天主教会、神职法西斯主义以及意大利反犹太主义和种族主义的形成

在这篇文章中，我认为尽管梵蒂冈谴责纳粹种族主义是一种反基督教的意识形态，但法西斯意大利的一些天主教部门并非不受反犹太主义和种族偏见的影响。着眼于教职法西斯主义宣传中对种族和反犹太主义的讨论及其在教会话语中的同步呼应，本研究深入探讨了特定的天主教种族反犹太主义趋势的形成，该趋势将犹太人排除在宗教和种族同质化之外。意大利民族的定义。教职法西斯主义的宣传者中有很大一部分试图定义一种适用于法西斯种族主义和意大利天主教文化的种族和反犹太主义叙事。我在广泛的立场上研究了天主教对种族反犹太主义的挪用，从只用种族主义言论调情的天主教徒到那些因为所谓的种族障碍而忽视皈依的变革价值的人。挑战基督教反犹太主义和现代反犹太主义之间的传统区别，研究中的例子表明宗教和种族争论在塑造一个被认为对意大利语政权庆祝。