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4 days ago · Vatican City, landlocked ecclesiastical state, seat of the Roman Catholic Church, and an enclave in Rome, situated on the west bank of the Tiber River. Vatican City is the world’s smallest fully independent nation-state. Its medieval and Renaissance walls form its boundaries except on the southeast at St. Peter’s Square (Piazza San Pietro).
1 day ago · As governed by the Holy See, Vatican City State is an ecclesiastical or sacerdotal-monarchical state ruled by the Pope, who is the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church. The highest state functionaries are all Catholic clergy of various origins.
May 18, 2024 · The façade of the Basilica of St. John Lateran — one of four main papal basilicas in Rome that will have Holy Doors opened by the pope and remain open throughout the jubilee year — is under...
May 24, 2024 · A Vatican conference May 21 on the history of the Church in China was the latest sign of this rapprochement — and a prominent illustration of the compromises that the Church has made in the...
May 14, 2024 · One is the state-controlled Church, overseen by the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which has a long history of appointing bishops without the Vatican’s approval—a nightmare for popes...
May 30, 2024 · In 1870, the pope's holdings were further circumscribed when Rome itself was annexed. Disputes between Italy and a series of "prisoner" popes were resolved in 1929 by three Lateran Treaties, which established the independent state of Vatican City and granted Roman Catholicism special status in Italy. In 1984, a concordat between the Holy See ...
2 days ago · A 40-foot cross and a museum on St. Clement’s Island, Maryland, marks the historic 1634 landing site of the first English Catholic colonists in America. Baltimore’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — the mother church of Catholic America — is uniquely American in design.
