"His Holiness would not be speaking as head of the Vatican State but as a world spiritual leader."

In 1930 the Italian law has changed, which has no effect for the Vatican State.

The Vatican State is a nonpartisan theocracy.

It is Bartolomeo, son of the above mentioned Lorenzo, that the family moved away from the imperial Ghibellines and came closer to the Vatican State.

He was also diplomat for the Vatican State.

Nice idea, but, to be pedantic, the Pope is not Italy's to sell, he is "owned" by the independent Vatican State.

Prati is a famous neighbourhood (rione of Rome) in the centre of the city near the Vatican State.

Vatican State: Holy See.

I want to thank all practising Catholics who are dissociating themselves from the Vatican State, which is behaving as it is.

If we cannot enter into dialogue with the Vatican State in the future, we shall probably have to question its basis for existence.