''Non abbiamo bisogno'' (

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for "We do not need") is a

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published on 29 June 1931 by

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The encyclical condemned Italian fascism's “pagan worship of the State” (

statolatry Statolatry, which combines idolatry with the state, first appeared in Giovanni Gentile's '' Doctrine of Fascism'', published in 1931 under Mussolini's name, and was also mentioned in Gramsci's Prison Notebooks (1971) sometime between 1931–1932, w ...

) and “revolution which snatches the young from the Church and from Jesus Christ, and which inculcates in its own young people hatred, violence and irreverence.” The encyclical begins with the Pope's protest against

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's closing of

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and Catholic Youth organizations in that same year. Pius XI made protests not just about the closing of these Catholic associations, but also against false and defamatory reports ordered to be published in the Italian press by Mussolini. Pius also wrote that Mussolini's regime was

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. Cardinal

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under Popes

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and

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, asserts that the encyclical was "strongly polemic" against Mussolini who ordered that Catholic youth associations be dissolved. "
Hitler's Pope? A Judgment Historically Unsustainable
'', Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B. Secretary of State, L'Osservatore Romano Weekly Edition in English 19 November 2008, page 11

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''Non abbiamo bisogno''
Complete English text, on Vatican.va Encyclicals of Pope Pius XI 1931 documents 1931 in Christianity Anti-fascist works June 1931 events History of Catholicism in Italy {{RC-document-stub

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