Massacre anniversary captures lights and shadows of Catholic story

In Italy, March 24 calls to mind 335 Italian civilians, including political prisoners and Jews, who were executed in 1944 by German forces then occupying Rome as a reprisal for the deaths of 33 German troops during an attack by Italian partisans.

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