Rorate Caeli

Best ecclesial comment on the so-called "Peace Movement"


[Radio announcer:] Citizens, listen to the voice of your conscience: remember, in the secret of the voting booth, God can see you -
[Don Camillo:] But Stalin can't!
...
[Helper:] Reverendo, it's 5 PM, it's time to shut down the speaker.
[Don Camillo:] It's 5, Moscow time; it's 10 to 5 in Rome!
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[Don Camillo:] Fellow citizens, do not forget it: the Peppone party is the Baffone [Stalin] party. Chi vota colomba, si scava la tomba. [Whoever votes for the dove digs his own grave.]

Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone (1955)
Script: G. Guareschi
Video [Italian only - it ends with the patriotic song La leggenda del Piave, played by Don Camillo,  converting internationalist peace-loving Communist Peppone in a nationalist Italian patriot, who proclaims his readiness to fight "...for the indissoluble good of King and country! Long live the Republic! Long live the Army!"]