In 1929, the Vatican City State was created with the signing of the Lateran Accords between Pope Pius XI and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, in which Italy recognised papal sovereignty over the ...

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Foreign leaders will play second fiddle to the Argentines and Italians and surrender to the whims of the French alphabet.

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest state in the world, with its own newspaper, national anthem in Latin and supreme leader — the pope. Some 900 ...