Talk:Prisoner in the Vatican

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<<The popes maintained their status as prisoners of the Vatican even after the Lateran treaties were signed in 1929. Although they traveled privately to Castel Gandolfo, they made no public visits outside the Vatican. The only exception occurred during World War II, when Pope Pius XII made brief visits to some bombed neighborhoods of Rome. Pope John XXIII ended this charade shortly after his election, when he emerged from the Vatican bunkers and ushered in the era of the modern papacy. On 25 December 1958, he visited children suffering from polio at the Bambin Gesù hospital and then visited Santo Spirito Hospital. The next day he visited Rome's Regina Coeli prison, where he told the prisoners: "You could not come to me, so I came to you." These were the first official acts of a Pope away from Vatican territory since 1870, and they created a sensation. He wrote in his diary:

... great astonishment in the Roman, Italian and international press. I was hemmed in on all sides: authorities, photographers, prisoners, wardens ... [Peter Hebblethwaite, Pope John XXIII: Shepherd of the Modern World, Image Books (1987) p. 303]>>

Contrary to Panarjedde's claim, Pius XII did not end the prisoner in the Vatican status. It was John XXIII who ended this farce when he performed "the first official acts of a Pope away from Vatican territory since 1870."