>>97021
>Can you explain?
Not very well, as I'm not Catholic myself and haven't looked into this too much, but alright.
From what little I know, Mussolini's relationship with Catholicism changed a lot over his life. He was brought up Catholic, turned against the church, communicated with various priests and mystics, and fell in and out of favour with the church over the course of his life. One, the stigmatic mystic Blessed Elena Aiello (stigmatism - bearing Christ's wounds from the cross - seems to be a running theme among these figures), flat out told him that God sent him to Italy to spare it from a fate worse than Communist Russia and warned him against joining WW2. He ignored both this warning and the promised blessings, didn't do so well, drifted back towards Catholicism in his final years, then repented near the very end of his life.
Now we come to the relevant part. The beautified mystic Edvige Carboni (also a stigmatic, and, I am told, is likely on the path to official sainthood) was apparently visited by the departed Mussolini, who told her that purgatory sucked and asked for prayer, and in 1951 she was told he had finally entered Heaven. Following this, one Mother Speranza (yes, a stigmatic) declared that Mussolini's soul "sparkled in Heaven," St. Padre Pio (a pen-pal of Mussolini's, and before you ask, infamously also stigmatic) flat out told Mussolini's second wife that her deceased husband was in Heaven, and the aforementioned Elena Aiello was visited and thanked by Mussolini in the 60s.
I wish I could give good sources on this, but as I am not Catholic and don't speak pastanigger I wouldn't know where to find much of this. A Twitter thread I stumbled across in my quick search mentions a biography of Rachele Guidi by one Elena Bianchini (which doubtless has its own sources) and a couple Italian-language articles, and there are various Catholic websites which speak of this, but there just doesn't seem to be much information on this in English. I can kind of understand why: it's a weird subject that involves a hated 20th century figure, obscure mystics most people barely know shit about, and a church that's already up to its ears in bad press nowadays.
To keep things on-topic, here's a brown girl a fed, sadly.