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Vatican City - an
Independent Country from Italy since 1929 also know as The Holy See,
Stato della Citta del Vaticano; has a small population of 860 people
only.
Popes in their secular role
ruled much of the Italian peninsula for more than a thousand years until
the mid 19th century, when many of the Papal States were seized by the
newly united Kingdom of Italy. In 1870, the pope's holdings were further
circumscribed when Rome itself was annexed. Disputes between a series of
"prisoner" popes and Italy were resolved in 1929 by three
Lateran Treaties, which established the independent state of Vatican City
and granted Roman Catholicism special status in Italy.
In 1984, a
concordat between the Holy See and Italy modified certain of the earlier
treaty provisions, including the primacy of Roman Catholicism as the
Italian state religion. Present concerns of the Holy See include the
failing health of Pope John Paul II, intereligious dialogue and
reconciliation, and the adjustment of church doctrine in an era of rapid
change and globalization. About 1 billion people worldwide profess the
Catholic faith.
Popes - Below you will find list of Popes:
Catholics - The word Catholic (katholikos from katholou -- throughout the whole, i.e., universal) occurs in the Greek classics, e.g., in Aristotle and Polybius, and was freely used by the earlier Christian writers in what we may call its primitive and non-ecclesiastical sense. Thus we meet such phrases as the "the catholic resurrection" (Justin Martyr), "the catholic goodness of God" (Tertullian), "the four catholic winds" (Irenaeus), where we should now speak of "the general resurrection", "the absolute or universal goodness of God", "the four principal winds", etc. The word seems in this usage to be opposed to merikos (partial) or idios (particular), and one familiar example of this conception still survives in the ancient phrase "Catholic Epistles" as applied to those of St. Peter, St. Jude, etc., which were so called as being addressed not to particular local communities, but to the Church at large.
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