FEDERAZIONE ASSOCIAZIONI TEATRO EDUCATIVO (F.A.T.E.)
Its establishment was decided in 1910 in Rome by the Superior Council of the Società della Gioventù Cattolica Italiana and it was constituted at the beginning of 1911 in an assembly of practitioners of male theater in the hall of the "Religione e patria" circle. From its establishment until its dissolution, its president was Commendatore Prof. Vincenzo Prinzivalli.
Its purpose was to carry out work parallel to the youth courses in the theatrical field. In fifteen years of activity, it promoted various competitions for Catholic amateur theater groups, for writers, and for educational theater, culminating in its participation in the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Società della Gioventù Cattolica Italiana with a prize competition. A representative of the F.A.T.E. was an ex-officio member of the Superior Council of the Gioventù Cattolica. The national organ of the F.A.T.E. was the illustrated monthly periodical *Teatro nostro*, published in Rome, which began in 1911, inheriting the periodical previously published in Vincenzo under the title *Tenuto musica e sport*. Its director was the same president of the F.A.T.E. It ceased publication in 1925.
The F.A.T.E. ceased its activities in 1926, forced to do so by the provisions issued by the Partito nazionale fascista, which created the O.N.D. (Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro) as the sole recreational body.
Ernesto Talennino
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FEDERAZIONE TRA LE ASSOCIAZIONI DEL CLERO IN ITALIA (F.A.C.I.)
Various attempts to establish it had been made since the beginning of this century through movements in individual Italian dioceses (e.g., Bologna, Turin, Sicily) that sought to defend the clergy and their interests from attacks by Freemasonry. The F.A.C.I. took definitive shape in 1917 through the efforts of a group of Sienese priests who, under the guidance of Cardinal P. Maffi and Monsignor P. Scaccia, Archbishop of Siena, united into a single association all the energies dispersed across the various dioceses of Italy.
The first congress of the F.A.C.I., which received the approval of the Holy Father, took place in Pisa in October 1917; Monsignor Con-dio, representative of the diocese of Turin, was elected president of the Federation. The driving force and soul of the F.A.C.I. at its inception was its vice-president, Monsignor Nazareno Orlandi of Siena.
The first interventions of the F.A.C.I. in defense of the clergy and ecclesiastical institutions occurred immediately after its founding, with the struggle against the Sacchi decree, in defense of ecclesiastical property; interventions that all proved victorious. The years following the World War were further years of tenacious struggles in which the F.A.C.I. sought to provide more suitable economic means for the entire clergy and succeeded in obtaining substantial sums from the State Treasury, which annually passed to the fund for worship to increase the stipend.
Other measures were taken after the Congresses of Naples in 1919 and Bologna in 1921, to alleviate the clergy from Fascist, syndicalist pressures, and for the reform of ecclesiastical legislation. In more recent times, various welfare initiatives arose through the initiative of the F.A.C.I.: a sanctuary for the clergy at Vigne d'Arco in Trentino, two pavilions for sick priests (Bisceglie [Bari], Venice), an insurance society, two nursing and rest homes (Montecatini and Marina di Massa), and agreements with various institutes to obtain greater facilities for priests.
The Federation's Congress meets every two years. Additionally, the F.A.C.I. has published a monthly bulletin since 1919, titled *Bollettino ufficiale della F.A.C.I.*; from 1924, it has been titled *L'amico del clero*.