the Vatican
noun
1
: the place in Rome where the Pope lives and works
2
: the government of the Roman Catholic Church
The Vatican has announced a new appointment.
a Vatican official
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At 75, Schnurr has reached the mandatory retirement of age for Catholic bishops, but bishops often work beyond that age if granted permission by the Vatican.
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Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 7 May 2024
The world’s smallest army, founded in 1506 by Pope Julius II, is still recruited from a group of Swiss towns and villages that have provided the Vatican since then with men who guard the pope and the Apostolic Palace.
—Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 6 May 2024
Now in the Vatican Museums, the Laocoön is the most famous sculpture of antiquity, showing the priest of Apollo and his two sons struggling with a pair of flesh-eating snakes.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
In this Vanity Fair story, Keziah Weir recounts how the Vatican played a role in the science of in vitro fertilization.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 1 May 2024
Gazing at the park’s Judas trees and their April magenta blossoms, Cattelan mused about his role in the Vatican pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, at the Giudecca women’s prison, where an outer wall is completely covered by his giant image of cadaverous-looking feet.
—Laura Rysman, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
The country’s bishops have repeatedly called for the Vatican to expel Bishop Vangheluwe from the priesthood with the case becoming a symbol of the abuse scandals in the country.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
Pope Francis, who has been suffering from the flu, was taken to a hospital in central Rome after the papal audience Wednesday, the Vatican said.
—Henry Austin, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
With that singular passage in the new document, the Vatican has put it there.
—Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2024
Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 7 May 2024
The world’s smallest army, founded in 1506 by Pope Julius II, is still recruited from a group of Swiss towns and villages that have provided the Vatican since then with men who guard the pope and the Apostolic Palace.
—Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 6 May 2024
Now in the Vatican Museums, the Laocoön is the most famous sculpture of antiquity, showing the priest of Apollo and his two sons struggling with a pair of flesh-eating snakes.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
In this Vanity Fair story, Keziah Weir recounts how the Vatican played a role in the science of in vitro fertilization.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 1 May 2024
Gazing at the park’s Judas trees and their April magenta blossoms, Cattelan mused about his role in the Vatican pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, at the Giudecca women’s prison, where an outer wall is completely covered by his giant image of cadaverous-looking feet.
—Laura Rysman, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
The country’s bishops have repeatedly called for the Vatican to expel Bishop Vangheluwe from the priesthood with the case becoming a symbol of the abuse scandals in the country.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
Pope Francis, who has been suffering from the flu, was taken to a hospital in central Rome after the papal audience Wednesday, the Vatican said.
—Henry Austin, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
With that singular passage in the new document, the Vatican has put it there.
—Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2024
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