Violations
Italy's anti-Jewish laws of 1938 prohibited marriages between Jews and non-Jews, including Catholics. The Vatican viewed this as a violation of the Concordat, which gave the church the sole right to regulate marriages involving Catholics. Article 34 of the Concordat also had specified that marriages performed by the Catholic Church would always be considered valid by civil authorities. The Vatican understood this to include marriages between non-Aryan Catholics or between one Aryan and a non-Aryan.
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