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May 14, 2024 · The Vatican’s Gamble With Beijing Is Costing China’s Catholics. In trying to hold the Church together, Pope Francis has compromised on religious freedom. By Francis X. Rocca. Illustration...
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.
Oct 9, 2023 · Indeed, in 235 monasteries and convents, 4,205 Jews were hidden, plus 160 in Vatican City. Of 3200, we know the names, thanks to the newly discovered list. Eventually, about 6,400 of the Roman Jews, or 80 % survived the Holocaust, more than anywhere else where a SS-razzia happened.
Apr 1, 2016 · Rome, the Eternal City, is home to Vatican City, the 109-acre city-state run by the Catholic Church and the seat of Roman Catholicism. At St. Peter’s Basilica—or St. Peter’s Square if the ...
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Oct 25, 2012 · Vatican City — Prelates and religious dignitaries from around the world fill St. Peter’s Basilica as a concelebrated Mass opens the Second Vatican Council on Oct. 11, 1962.
Apr 13, 2024 · A map showing the Ager Vaticanus on the west bank of the Tiber River. Source: Wikimedia Commons The dominion of the pope has existed for over one thousand years, though Vatican City was not always the stage from where the pope ruled. Originally, the area where the Vatican now sits, called the Ager Vaticanus, was the site of Roman attractions such as the Circus of Nero, marked
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Vatican II was strikingly different from the 20 other ecclesiastical assemblies that Roman Catholicism ranks as ecumenical. It is the first council that did not face, or leave in its wake,...
