In 1942, a parish priest from Terni asked the Holy Office to analyze some of his theses to confirm their orthodoxy. He argued that it was legitimate not only to kill but also to hate the enemy of the homeland, and that a war declared by a legitimate government (such as the fascist one) was always just and holy. These theses, especially those related to hatred and holy war, were refuted and condemned by the Dominican Mariano Cordovani, and the Holy Office imposed on the priest the abjuration and the commitment to no longer deal with such matters. This priest was named Tullio Calcagno, and his activities in favor of the fascist regime and the war conducted by Italy would not stop there. In fact, after September 8, 1943, he resumed writing about politics and war, taking issue with the "infamous" Vittorio Emanuele III and the "inept" Italian Armed Forces. Due to his relapse, he was then suspended and removed from his parish: he then moved to Cremona, finding a more favorable environment. He began to collaborate with the fascist hierarch Roberto Farinacci, writing numerous articles for the newspaper "Il regime fascista," supporting the alliance with the Nazis and attacking the high clergy for its "Germanophobia" and lack of support for the RSI. In early 1944, together with other priests united by the faith in "God and Country," he also founded the periodical "Crociata Italica," in which the Axis war was compared to a holy war and even fantasized about the creation of an Italian national church, more patriotic and linked to the RSI. All these activities naturally did not go unnoticed by the local ecclesiastical hierarchies. In particular, the bishop of Cremona Giovanni Cazzani and the archbishop of Milan Ildefonso Schuster pressured the Holy Office and Pius XII for a further condemnation of Don Calcagno. This came only a year later, with the priest's excommunication for repeatedly disobeying the Church and undermining its unity. Don Calcagno was shot on April 29, 1945 by communist partisans, wearing his cassock (which he had always continued to wear) and rigid fascist-style boots.