How Mussolini Created the Vatican State

SmokinP · Jul 30, 2011

The recent statement by Enda Kenny (Irish Prime Minister) exposed an aspect of the Vatican that’s often overlooked: the fact that temporal power has always been an essential component of how the Holy See views itself. Unlike many religions, Roman Catholicism regards physical authority as integral with its spiritual role, and Popes have always been kings as well as dispensers of theological edicts. There is no such thing as a Pope concerned solely with religious matters, and there never has been such a thing.

It’s easy to forget how young the modern Italy really is. Until the end of the nineteenth century, it was no more than a European peninsula, comprising three or four major regions controlled by dukes and assorted warlords, with the only common factor being the language, and even that could hardly be described as anything but a loose association of dialects.

Up to about 1870, a Pope was just another warlord, though a substantial one. The Pope was not just a religious leader, but also king of the Papal States, and this was no small matter, since those states occupied a substantial portion of the Italian peninsula, running in a roughly east-west direction from Rome to Bologna. This was a serious chunk of land, as big as many countries, and considerably more prosperous.
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How Mussolini Created the Vatican State - Bock The Robber

Irish Prime Minister speech... Might seem tame to some of you but for an Irish politician to speak in such terms was radical...
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIWXYnjm-Mw]‪Taoiseach Enda Kenny in unprecedented attack on Vatican‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]

noviceGrower420 · Jul 30, 2011

i would KILL to be let in to the vatican archives. Fucking history thief`s.

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