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The Vatican has citizens (1500 persons), but there is nobody with only Vatican citizenship. For example, the Pope is citizen of both the Vatican and Poland. The other peculiarity is that the Vatican issues only diplomatic passports, so this is a country, where all the citizens are diplomats.
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The Vatican Bank ... has worked closely with the U.S. government as a cover money conduit to groups like the Solidarity Trade Union in Poland and other sordid CIA affairs. With the help of Marcinkus, Sindona was to become a "inside man of confidence" within the Vatican who enjoyed unique access to officials of the Holy See, even the pope.
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"The Vatican ordered a hundred pairs of 'Doc Martens' boots from their makers, R. Griggs of Northampton, including a pair for the pope - in white, to match his vestments." [The Economist, 3/96]
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[T]hat’s no longer true. Just today, for example, L’Osservatore was the first Vatican news outlet to carry the pope’s reformulated text of the 1962 Missal’s Good Friday prayer for Jews. For the first time in memory, Vatican employees rushed out to buy the newspaper.
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Italian is the official language of Vatican City, but Latin is the official language of the Holy See (the seat of jurisdiction of the pope as spiritual leader) and is employed for most papal encyclicals and other formal pronouncements. As the ordinary working language, Italian is in greater use.
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