can you tell me three facts about the vatican?

Question

if you want to know why it is because im stuck on my homework and all the web sites i went on where rubbish

Answer 1

Money
Money
Money

Answer 2

These are facts, you probably won´t believe them but if you do the research you will. And your eyes will open.

1. The Pope isn´t the leader of the Catholic church, the true power lies with the black pope Superior General of the Jesuits : Peter Hans Kolvenbach.

2. that what was once a mortal sin (eating anything after midnight) is no longer a sin? Now you only have to fast 60 minutes before communion. What sent a man to hell years ago is no longer in effect. Rome, who never changes, has thought to change the laws, and that is the very quality of anti-Christ. Dan.7:25 says,
“And he shall speak [great] words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.”

3. Mary :-Roman priests call Mary the 'mother of God,' a name impossible, illogical, and unscriptural. It is impossible, for God can have no mother; He is eternal and without beginning while Mary was born and died within a few short years. It is illogical, for God does not require a mother for His existence. Jesus said, 'Before Abraham was born, I am' (John 8:58). It is unscriptural, for the bible gives Mary no such contradictory name. Mary was the honored mother of the human body of Jesus - no more - as every Catholic must admit if he wishes to be reasonable and Scriptural. The divine nature of Christ existed from eternity past, long before Mary was born. Jesus never called her 'mother'; He called her 'woman.' . In the book of Revelation 4:2-4 there is no mention of a throne in heaven with Mary seated on it. The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia admits that the story of St. Dominic receiving the Rosary from Mary is a forgery, yet the RCC continues to produce millions of publications retelling the lie as though it were true

Answer 3

The Vatican City is the worlds smallest nation, being the size of a city-centre.

The Swiss Guard, who defend the Vatican, were originally mercenaries during the middle ages. Their weapons and uniforms were designed by Leonardo Da Vinchi

The Basilica is designed to be perfectly acoustic, and is based upon the Greek Ampitheatres

Answer 4

For starters, how about getting an acutal Catholic to answer. Why, hey, I'm one!

This is the official Vatican website.
http://www.vatican.va/

wiki site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican


The Vatican is governed by the Bishop of Rome, also known as the Pope.
It is the seat of the Roman Catholic church.

Even before the arrival of Christianity, it is supposed that this originally uninhabited part of Rome (the ager vaticanus) had long been considered sacred, or at least not available for habitation. The area was also the site of worship to the Phrygian goddess Cybele and her consort Attis during Roman times.[2] Agrippina the Elder (14 BC – 18 October AD 33) drained the hill and environs and built her gardens there in the early 1st century AD. Emperor Caligula (b. Aug. 31, AD 12 - d. Jan. 24, AD 41, emperor AD 37 to AD 41) started construction of a circus in AD 40 that was later completed by Nero, the Circus Gaii et Neronis.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City

Answer 5

Vatican City, independent state within Rome, Italy, that is ruled by the pope and serves as the world headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. Entirely surrounded by Rome, Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with an area of 44 hectares (110 acres).

Vatican City occupies a triangular area on Vatican Hill in northwestern Rome, just west of the Tiber River. Except at Saint Peter’s Square (Piazza San Pietro) on its southwest flank, Vatican City is surrounded by medieval and Renaissance walls that separate it from the city beyond. Within its walls is a vast complex of courtyards, gardens, and magnificent buildings, the largest and most imposing of which is the great domed Saint Peter’s Basilica—the principal church of Roman Catholicism.

Vatican City has its own constitution, postal system, seal, flag, and other symbols of statehood. The Vatican also has its own army, the Swiss Guard, numbering about 100 soldiers. Vatican Radio is the official radio station, and powerful transmitters beam “the pope’s voice” to a global audience. In 2001 Vatican City had an estimated population of 1,000. Citizenship is gained by permanent residence in the Vatican together with the performance of special duties in the service of the Holy See (the jurisdiction of the pope).

Vatican City is the last remnant of the Papal States, a swath of territories in central Italy acquired over the centuries by the Catholic Church and governed by the pope. Vatican City was established in 1929 under terms of the Lateran Treaty, concluded by the Italian government and the papacy after many years of controversy. Under the treaty, the Catholic Church ceded all claims to the Papal States in return for financial compensation and sovereignty over the Holy See within the state of Vatican City.

Answer 6

The official language is still Latin
It has thesmallest private army in the world
It should be one of the smallest states in the world if not the smallest.
The body of ST Peter was found underneath
There are no paintings inside ST Pauls cathedral as such,the pictures were made with small coloured tiles therefore haven't faded over time.
Hope this helps

Answer 7

Nice job, laguna.

The Vatican operates on a deficit of around 15 million, and has a budget smaller than the city of Chicago. Vatican wealth is a myth. Here is a site from the CIA (and you cannot claim the CIA is biased in favor of Catholicism) that proves what I am saying is true:
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/print/vt.html

The obelisks of Rome are a favorite among the more vicious anti-Catholic hate sites. They even use bible verses where God commands that they all be knocked down, and since there is one in the Vatican, it must prove that the Catholic Church is pagan. There is also an Egyptian obelisks in many cities in the world, including Washington D.C.
The following is from a book written by a non-Catholic Egyptologist. Notice there is no explanation as to why this particular obelisk is the only one in the world that has
no inscriptions on it, and has never been broken.

The Obelisk in the Piazza di San Pietro

The obelisks of the Piazza San Pietro, Piazza dell’ Esuilino, and the Piazza del Quirinale are all uninscribed. Their dates, provenances, and the reasons they were left uninscribed are not known…Neither Flinders Petrie, nor any other excavator working in the ruins of Heliopolis, has ever found an obelisk, or even a small fragment of an obelisk, that was uninscribed. The sovereigns of ancient Egypt were ever eager to decorate monuments with their own names and with phrases proclaiming their own glory, no matter what the size of the monument. The only undecorated obelisks in Egypt were unfinished ones abandoned in their quarries, and in fact one of these decoration was already in progress. More probably, the uninscribed obelisks were quarried in Egypt by the Roman emperors expressly to be taken to Rome, although it is possible that they were left incomplete because of the untimely death of the pharaoh.

The Obelisk in the Piazza di San Pietro is important chiefly by its surroundings.. It is made of red granite and stands 25.37 meters high. It was erected in the Julian Forum in Alexandria by order of Augustus and remained their until 37 A.D. when the Emperor Caligula ordered the forum demolished and the obelisk transferred to Rome. It was then erected in the Vatican Circus, and there it remained until its removal to the square before the Basilica of St. Peter (1586). Legend* has it that in the Vatican Circus innumerable Christians, including St. Peter and that the reason this obelisk was not later overturned as were all the others in Rome was that was looked upon as the witness to the martyrdom of St. Peter.

Pope Sixtus V appointed engineer Domenico Fontana to move the obelisk from the Vatican Circus

April 28, 1586, Fontana and his men attended Mass at 2:AM, and later offered public prayers for the success of this feat.

Dedication ceremonies, Mass, and a procession with the entire papal court went to the obelisk More prayers, were offered and the obelisk was purified, and surmounted with a cross.

Former Chief Inspector of Antiquities, is an Egyptian archeologist who has published several books on Egyptology, as well as many articles in many journals.
Obelisks of the World, by Labib Habachi, Scribner’s Sons, 1974, page 74-75

I would like to add here, that on the top of this Christianized pagan symbol, is a cross. Inside this cross, is a relic of the true cross. Here we have a stone monument that stood in the presence of hundreds of the earliest Christian martyrs containing a relic of the true cross. To accuse us of paganism is the same as the Pharisees telling Jesus He heals by the power of Satan. It is an insult to the deaths of the martyrs who refused to pay homage to Roman gods. But revisionist bigots don’t want people to know this. They don’t believe we have relics of the true cross. Most Catholics don’t even know it’s in there. Contrary to anti-Catholics insane attempt to discredit the Catholic Church, the cross is not a pagan idol.


http://www.twenj.com/obelisks.htm
http://www.masters-table.org/pagan/oblis.htm

*Legend: the author is writing as an archaeologist and not as an early Church historian.

Answer 8

It sits inside of it's own city... Vatican City. Actually, it IS Vatican City.
It sits on top of a Pagan shrine and the catacombs (as archeology has shown) were for Pagans. They demolished the shrine, which I believe was to Apollo. And the catacombs were opened.

That's all I can think of right now. Good luck with your homework.

Answer 9

1, Its a city within a city (its in Rome)
2, Its treated as a seperate country
3, The headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church is there
4, The head (The Pope) of the Roman Catholic Church lives there
5, The Swiss Army guards it

Answer 10

It is the smallest sovereign state in the world.
It's area is 44 hectares.
It was created in 1929 as a vestige of the Papal States.

Answer 11

Though located in Italy, the Vatican is its' own soveriegn state
Because it is its own sovereign state, it has its own military
Vatican City is the official residence of the Pope, who is the highest ranking Catholic official.