Of holy disobedience

A. J. MUSTE
NUMBER 64
JANUARY, 1952
PENDLE HILL
WALLINGFORD
PENNSYLVANIA
35 CENTS
1952 BY PENDLE HILL PRINTED IN THE USA

The quotation which follows is from Ignazio Silone’s novel, Bread and Wine , which was a moving exposition of life under Fascism in Italy. The conversation between a young woman and an anti-Fascist priest takes place in a small Italian town at the end of the invasion of Ethiopia by Italy. During the night, anti-war and anti-Fascist slogans had been written on walls and steps in the town.
Bianchina told Don Paolo she couldn’t understand why there was such a lot of fuss about a few inscriptions on the wall.