How the Vatican's Embassies Work

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  @judesussman4502 · 1 year ago

  I dispute the sovereign statehood of France.

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  @abhishekrao1525 · 1 year ago

  Fun Fact: The Italian Embassy to the Vatican is in Rome, and the only embassy that is within the original country it represents.

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• HI

  @highro13 · 1 year ago

  When I was 16, I tripped on the sidewalk in Rome & literally fell into this country

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• EV

  @EverythingPhil · 1 year ago

  I used this country as a shortcut to work for 3 years.

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  @velzanna2281 · 1 year ago

  As CGP Grey once said, the power of the Vatican lies not what is inside the walls of the city, but one billion Catholics outside of them. But it is notable that they also have such good standing with other Abrahamic religions, being able to reach out be the other party Muslim, Orthodox or Protestant.

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  @bizmen81 · 1 year ago

  Fun fact: Countries also have embassies to the Vatican. But since the Vatican is so small, the embassies are in Rome. And they are the same embassies for Italy. So when Mussolini kicked out Allied Embassies during WW2, barely anything changed. Embassy workers just needed badges saying they were in Rome for Vatican-related business.

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  @LudicrousBarchart · 1 year ago

  Some absolutely WILD hats in this one

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• KU

  @kunwoo32 · 1 year ago (edited)

  The reason the Holy See is recognized sovereign distinct from Vatican is quite simple. The Catholic Church uses "Holy See" to refer to that institution of the church that has existed for two thousand years and engaged in medieval diplomacy. It allows them to walk into the UN and declare "The sovereign entity before you is the same one that crowned Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, and had 'state dinners' with Constantine."

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• WI

  @wiseravenclaw4012 · 1 year ago

  Me: is planning to scroll social media while eating lunch<br>Wendover:

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  @wojtekpolska1013 · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zQ8cFF3DG8&amp;t=112">1:52</a> fun fact - while the vatican doesn&apos;t have a hospital, but surprisingly it does have the busiest pharmacy in the world, and a lot of people from rome go to the vatican pharmacy due to it having a lot of harder to access medicine at affordable price.

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  @Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co · 1 year ago

  The Vatican City State does in fact have a police force! The Corps de Gendarmerie is separate from the Swiss Guards and acts as the Pope&apos;s personal security.

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  @lesittelesigues4284 · 1 year ago

  So UN is like a mother who calls for grandmother’s (Vatican) help to deal with a misbehaving son

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