Democrazia Cristiana as well as the Catholic church were officially neutral on the republic-monarchy question, but many historians (Montanelli for example) noted that the DC leaders prefered republic (as De Gasperi) while church hyerarchies (at all levels) prefered monarchy. I think the relationship between Pius XII and Savoy house was great (the pope even went in official visit to the Quirinale Palace and Savoys princes were often in Vatican; the king of Italy then gave titles to Pacelli family, the Pius XII family)
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