Father Pietro Pappagallo’s story merits retelling today, in part because it captures the entire drama of the early 20th century birth of “social Catholicism” in miniature.
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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.