The Roman Catholic Church supported Nazi Germany (and the holocaust prior to, and during WWII), and had no problem using poor Irish children as slave labour and objects of sexual abuse.
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James Gralton and Ireland’s Unfinished Revolution
However, the Vatican, situated as it is in the centre of Rome, fully supported the rise to power of the fascist dictator Mussolini, and aligned itself with the political far-right. This was extended in 1933 to a full embracing and endorsing of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Nazi’ regime when it gained political power.