Talk:Politics of the Vatican City

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The North American College in Rome, owned and operated by the U.S. Catholic hierarchy for training American priests, handles requests for papal audiences. The address is Casa Santa Maria dell'Umilta, Via dell'Umilta 30, 00187, Rome, Italy (tel. 690-0189).

Is this the case for everyone, or just Americans? We need to de-americocentrify Wiki. (Is that a verb?) Also, that phone number seems to be shy some digits. - montréalais

Montrealais - The information above is incorrect. The Pontifical North American College, located on the Janiculum, was founded in 1859 is owned by the Holy See and operated by the North American hierarchy from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, as well as the United States Military Archdiocese. Aloysius Patacsil 21:39, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)

It seems we are still dealing with an old story... No one can sell these "tickets". Phone directly the Prefectura (the number in the page is correct). They do speak a perfect English -- G

It would be nice if the article discussed the "citizenry" of the Vatican City State. Do monsignori and bishops have "citizenship" in the Vatican City State? If so, do their respective countries of origin (especially in the case of the residential diocesan bishops) recognize such dual citizenship? Aloysius Patacsil 09:05, Aug 21, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] origin?

What are the succesion of events originating the vatican or papal states? Was the centralisation of the administration of the churches under the roman empire a genious way to controll the increasing problematic christian rebellious movements in the empire? After Nicea 325, the central roman catholic administration, controls the church from within and above, with a Mithraic organisational and military structure, right?

[edit] Renaming of template

The template featured on this page, Politics of the Vatican City, is to a major degree a misstatement of the jobs performed by the organizations to which it refers. Perhaps it would be better to rename the template something like "Roman Curia", which includes both the temporal and ecclesiastical responsibilities of the various organizations?

Lordthees 21:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] absolute elect-monarchy

The vatican city is an absolute -monarchy; no absolute elect-monarchy, because the bishop of rome is ex officio head of state. there are no elections in the vatican city. the election of the pope takes place in the "diocese of rome", not in the state "vatican city".--138.246.7.82 10:06, 18 September 2006 (UTC)