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	Politics of the Vatican City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of the Vatican City takes place in a framework of an absolute elect-monarchy, in which the head of the Roman Catholic Church, the Pope, exercises supreme legislative, executive, and judicial power over the Holy See and the State of the Vatican City, a rare case of elective non-hereditary monarchy.
		The Pope delegates the internal administration of the Vatican City to the Pontifical Commission for the State of the Vatican City.
		The Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura customarily serves as President of the Cassation Court of Vatican City, and the Dean of the Sacra Rota as President of the Appellate Court of Vatican City; many judicial functions are normally handled by Italy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_the_Vatican_City (967 words)

	Vatican pace on abuse worries O'Malley - The Boston Globe
		O'Malley, like other American bishops and priests, has become increasingly concerned that the Vatican's slow pace of processing the flood of allegations lodged over the last 2 years is unfair to the accused priests and to their alleged victims.
		The Vatican can decide the case itself or send it back to the diocese to be judged in a local church court, but lawyers and church officials say that in many cases the Vatican has not yet taken either step.
		The Vatican has to decide whether the case should be judged in Rome or in Boston, and in many cases it has not yet made that decision.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/06/30/vatican_pace_on_abuse_worries_omalley (1169 words)

	Vatican City : VA
		Vatican City : VA The State of the Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, a landlocked enclave surrounded by the city of Rome in Italy.
		The Vatican is technically a rare case of a non-hereditary elective monarchy; the monarch, the Pope, being elected for life by those Cardinals under the age of 80 during a Conclave (held in the Sistine Chapel).
		It also has a large and valuable library and the collections of the Vatican Museums are of the highest historical, scientific and cultural importance.
	www.findword.org /va/va.html (1186 words)

	Politics of the Vatican City
		The Pope exercises supreme legislative, executive, and judicial power over the Holy See and the State of the Vatican City, a rare case of elective non-hereditary monarchy.
		As formally re-defined in 1929, after the Concordato between Vatican and Italy, to administer properties belonging to the Holy See in Rome, the State of the Vatican City is recognized under international law and enters into international agreements.
		The Vatican City maintains the Swiss Guards[?], a voluntary military force, as well as a modern security corps (famous for its uniforms, designed by Michelangelo).
	www.fastload.org /po/Politics_of_the_Vatican_City.html (1229 words)

	Vatican lays out social doctrine - The Boston Globe
		Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls intervened at a news conference when a top Vatican cardinal was asked whether the faithful can cast ballots for a candidate who supports legalized abortion.
		Pope John Paul II has vigorously championed the Vatican's longstanding opposition to abortion, which was denounced as a ''horrendous crime" in the Vatican document released yesterday.
		The former Vatican envoy to the United Nations, Cardinal Renato Martino, was asked whether ''in hindsight," the US-led war against Iraq would be ''illegal" in the eyes of the church.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/10/26/vatican_lays_out_social_doctrine (466 words)

	Vatican World Politics - Chapter 18 - The Vatican and the United States
		The Vatican, foreseeing the disaster impending over Europe, has been preparing for the creation of a new Catholic world in the Americas on which it will be able to rely for the secular support it needs.
		The Vatican, already watching the progress of the American Church, was not slow in creating the necessary ruling bodies, represented by arch-dioceses, which in 1911 rose to 16, while bishoprics were brought to 40.
		American Catholicism came to the foreground of the political life of the country on a grand scale during the election for the Presidency in 1928, when Governor Smith, the Catholic candidate, issued his "credo," which became that of approximately 95 per cent of American Catholics.
	www.cephas-library.com /catholic/catholic_vatican_in_world_politics_chpt_18.html (11556 words)

	City Mayors: Francisco Vázquez - Spain's ambassador to the Vatican
		City Mayors examines the importance of urban tourism to city economies.
		Spain’s delegation at the Vatican is the world’s oldest permanent embassy.
		The city, in the autonomous region of Galicia, is the capital of the province with the same name.
	www.citymayors.com /politics/spain_vatican.html (1210 words)

	CNS STORY: POLITICS-VATICAN Jun-3-2004 (860 words) xxxi
		The source said that in light of recent statements by various U.S. bishops the Vatican felt that "a concerted and nuanced approach is needed" on the question of Communion and dissenting politicians.
		Vatican sources said it was uncertain whether such a U.S.-Vatican consultation would be possible before the bishops meet in Denver.
		Sources at the Vatican said the lack of unity on such a public issue was a matter for concern.
	www.catholicnews.com /data/stories/cns/20040603a.htm (918 words)

	Amazon.ca: City of Secrets: The Startling Truth Behind the Vatican Murders: Books: John Follain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Follain insists that the Vatican engaged in a huge cover-up in 1998 after the commander of the Swiss Guard, his wife, and a vice corporal were found dead, evidently victims of a double murder/suicide.
		City of Secrets, which reads like a fast-moving novel, is as much about the inner workings of the Vatican -- the Swiss Guard in particular -- as it is about the deaths themselves.
		It was the most gruesome violence in the Vatican since the Middle Ages...Doubts about the Vatican version, expressed in screaming headlines, began almost as soon as the ink dried on the official report, and John Follain, who once covered the Vatican for Reuters, began his own investigation.
	www.amazon.ca /City-Secrets-Startling-Vatican-Murders/dp/0060935138 (1555 words)

	CNN.com - Gays hit back at Vatican - Aug. 1, 2003
		Gay rights groups have hit back at the Vatican's global campaign against same-sex marriages, saying the appeal reflects a mix of religion and politics that is out of touch with the modern world.
		The Vatican appeal comes amid heated debate on the issue in the United States, after the Supreme Court struck down state laws banning sodomy in June and two U.S. states come closer to legalizing homosexual marriages.
		The Vatican's document is an example of an individual denomination trying to instill its thoughts on political and legislative policies, Cathy Renna, spokeswoman for the U.S. Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation told CNN.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/08/01/vatican.gay.marriages/index.html (791 words)

	CNN.com - Vatican fights gay marriages - Jul. 31, 2003
		The Vatican is stepping up its global campaign against the legalization of gay marriages.
		The Vatican issued a 12-page set of guidelines with the approval of Pope John Paul II in a bid to stem the increase in laws granting legal rights to homosexual unions in Europe and North America.
		Gay marriage is forbidden in the U.S. though the question of gay marriage has moved to the foreground of American politics after a Supreme Court decision in June which struck down state laws banning sodomy.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/07/31/vatican.gay.marriages (528 words)

	CNN.com - Vatican condemns Dutch euthanasia vote - November 28, 2000
		VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican launched a stinging attack on the Dutch parliament's vote to legalise euthanasia, saying it "violated human dignity" and "offended European civilisation."
		The Dutch vote was also condemned by Father Gino Concetti, a senior moral theologian at the Vatican whose thinking is close to that of Pope John Paul II.
		In recent years, the Vatican has attempted to influence legislators to put the brakes on countries considering legalising euthanasia.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/11/28/vatican.euthanasia/index.html (594 words)

	USATODAY.com - Vatican paper article says 'intelligent design' not science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican newspaper has published an article saying "intelligent design" is not science and that teaching it alongside evolutionary theory in school classrooms only creates confusion.
		The article in Tuesday's editions of L'Osservatore Romano was the latest in a series of interventions by Vatican officials — including the pope —; on the issue that has dominated headlines in the United States.
		Pope Benedict XVI reaffirmed in off-the-cuff comments in November that the universe was made by an "intelligent project" and criticized those who in the name of science say its creation was without direction or order.
	www.usatoday.com /news/religion/2006-01-18-vatican-article_x.htm (478 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Country profiles \| Country profile: Vatican
		The Vatican is the smallest independent state in the world and the residence of the spiritual leadership of the Roman Catholic church.
		Already one of the Vatican's most powerful men, he presided over the funeral of his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, and was said to be among the late pontiff's closest friends.
		He is regarded as an ultraconservative intellectual with rigorously uncompromising views on birth control, sexuality and euthanasia.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/1066140.stm (470 words)

	Harvard University Press: Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church by Thomas Reese, S.J. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Reese...brings impressive qualifications and experience as a political scientist to this [study]...It is the special virtue of Dr. Reese's study that he succeeds where many have failed in providing an analytic, critical and comprehensive account of how [the Vatican] works.
		With a papal election near, this is a handy...guide to the politics of a faith in mid-struggle between ancients and moderns.
		Thomas J. Reese is a Jesuit scholar with a doctorate in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and Editor in Chief of America, the national Catholic weekly magazine.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/REEINS.html?show=reviews (632 words)

	Amazon.ca: Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church: Books: Thomas Reese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Reese, a Jesuit priest and political scientist, provides detailed information, much of which is not available elsewhere, on the internal workings of the Vatican both as city-state and the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.
		Reese suggests priests play a major role in selecting bishops, as was the case before the 1800s, in contrast to the current practice in which the pope appoints ultraconservative bishops who can't relate to anyone in their diocese.
		The Vatican is such an arcane institution that it is impossible to give a short, comprehensive answer on the operation of the Curia.
	www.amazon.ca /Inside-Vatican-Politics-Organization-Catholic/dp/0674932617 (1384 words)

	Wired News: Vatican: Don't Knock Science
		VATICAN CITY - A Vatican cardinal said Thursday the faithful should listen to what secular modern science has to offer, warning that religion risks turning into "fundamentalism" if it ignores scientific reason.
		The Vatican project was inspired by Pope John Paul II's 1992 declaration that the church's 17th-century denunciation of Galileo was an error resulting from "tragic mutual incomprehension." Galileo was condemned for supporting Nicolaus Copernicus' discovery that the Earth revolved around the sun; church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe.
		The Vatican project STOQ has organized academic courses and conferences on the relationship between science and religion and is hosting its first international conference on "the infinity in science, philosophy and theology," next week.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,69485,00.html?tw=rss.CUL (701 words)

	The Vatican (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Vatican City State: The Vatican Library From Gabriel, the information service for the National Libraries of Europe
		Vatican Observatory The Vatican Observatory, one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world, has its headquarters at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, outside Rome.
		Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit Presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts, books, and maps--many of which played a key role in the humanist recovery of the classical heritage of Greece and Rome
	www.shc.edu /theolibrary/vatican.htm (319 words)

	Encyclical Letter "Deus Caritas Est"
		Politics is more than a mere mechanism for defining the rules of public life: its origin and its goal are found in justice, which by its very nature has to do with ethics.
		The Church has an indirect duty here, in that she is called to contribute to the purification of reason and to the reawakening of those moral forces without which just structures are neither established nor prove effective in the long run.
		The Second Vatican Council rightly observed that “among the signs of our times, one particularly worthy of note is a growing, inescapable sense of solidarity between all peoples.”[25] State agencies and humanitarian associations work to promote this, the former mainly through subsidies or tax relief, the latter by making available considerable resources.
	www.vatican.va /holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est_en.html (14181 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Mel Gibson delays Vatican screening of Jesus film
		VATICAN CITY – Bishops and cardinals waiting for a special Vatican screening of a controversial Mel Gibson film about Jesus Christ are going to have to wait a little longer, the Hollywood star has told them.
		The select audience were hoping to have a private screening of "The Passion of Christ" on Tuesday evening as part of a convention on spirituality in film.
		Organisers of the religious film festival said that Gibson's company had promised a private screening for Vatican officials and religious experts before it is due to open in the United States on February 25 of next year.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20031202-0519-pope-gibson.html (287 words)

	The New York Times > Washington > Bush Asked for Vatican's Help on Political Issues, Report Says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		On his recent trip to Rome, President Bush asked a top Vatican official to push American bishops to speak out more about political issues, including same-sex marriage, according to a report in the National Catholic Reporter, an independent newspaper.
		A spokesman for the Vatican declined yesterday to disclose the contents of the meeting, which followed the president's brief meeting with the pope.
		Bush's campaign is betting heavily on churchgoers in his re-election effort, and how Catholic voters apply their faith to politics is emerging as a focal point of the race.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/06/13/politics/13george.html?ex=1402459200&en=0f985b5469faef04&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (859 words)

	Japan and the Vatican!!
		Negotiations between Vatican representatives and the Japanese Government looking to the establishment of relations had been carried on sporadically for a couple of decades.
		Given the importance of religious ideas in their political culture, of course, this was equally threatening to Japanese leaders.
		The Vatican radio official saw that the message comprised three typed pages and remarked that it probably would not be broadcast for a couple of hours in view of the backlog.
	www.reformation.org /vatican-and-japan.html (2172 words)

	Sistine Chapel Chimney Cam - Politics Vatican City
		Politics: A current affairs commentary on politics in Scotland, UK, USA, Iraq and elsewhere.
		Unfortunately I discovered this about 3 minutes too late, the sistine chapel chimney cam has already belched its white smoke and a pope has been elected.
		Posted by Paul in Vatican City Politics at April 19, 2005 05:16 PM
	www.anoasis.co.uk /content/2005/04/19/Politics/sistine_chapel_chimney_cam.html (62 words)

	SuicideGirls > News > Politics > Success! Only 20,000 Kidnapped in Iraq Since January
		The 19,548 people kidnapped includes 4,959 women and 2,350 children...The thousands of Iraqis being kidnapped are primarily the victims of political rivalry and of common criminal gangs seeking ransom.
		The report states 80 percent of the current violence is politically motivated.
		The violence is generated by armed militias linked to political parties and is fed by the [Iraq’s] porous borders and by the delay in forming a new government.
	suicidegirls.com /news/politics/15426 (1068 words)

	Church Turns to Its Guardian of the Faith (washingtonpost.com)
		VATICAN CITY, April 19 -- Joseph Ratzinger, a German-born cardinal and the Vatican's guardian of religious orthodoxy, was swiftly elected Tuesday by the College of Cardinals as the 265th leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
		Speaking to reporters in Vatican City, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, the archbishop of Cologne, Germany, said cardinals broke out in applause when they realized Ratzinger had passed the threshold of a two-thirds majority.
		At the first reports of smoke from the chapel, schoolchildren, office workers, tourists, nuns and seminarians raced to St. Peter's Square on foot, by bus and in taxis.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A942-2005Apr19.html (861 words)

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