> Jean-Christophe Helary a dit:
>
> >is the vatican a state ?
>
> Once, yes: The Papal States (not to mention the various papal bulls which
> name the Pope of Rome as the leader of all Catholicism; I don't think
> they've been retracted lately). I think Mussolini put paid to that bit of
> idiocy.
>
> Todd
>
Once? Is that why I drive by a Vatican Embassy to the US when I visit Washington, and why the Vatican has representation on all sort of UN bodies?
Stalin once asked how many battalions the pope had. Who is in the dustbin of history now?
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