“In the upper echelons of the Church, the authoritarian and anti-liberal elements within fascism resonated with those – and they included Pius XI – who had come to see the turmoil and conflict that had convulsed the world in recent decades as symptoms of the deep moral malaise that had afflicted Western society since the time of the Enlightenment, with its corrosive doctrines of rights and popular sovereignty.” CatholicismFascismItalyMussoliniPapacyReactionary Politics Book:Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy Source: Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy