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   From: Janithor@comcast.net   
      
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   On 7/29/2025 3:17 PM, Andrew 'Andrzej' Baron wrote:   
   > The most corrupt nation state in Western Europe occupies only 120 acres of   
   land   
   > and has fewer than 1,000 residents. But its capacity for initiating criminal   
   > behaviour, and the global consequences of the financial and sexual scandals   
   > in which it's entangled, are hugely out of proportion to its size.   
   >   
   > That’s because, around the world, roughly a billion people traditionally   
   regard   
   > the state’s geriatric absolute monarch as God’s representative on earth.   
   They   
   > may have been aware that, for centuries, a few bad apples in the   
   administration   
   > have betrayed the monarch's trust by embezzling money. But the notion that   
   the   
   > whole state was slowly turning into a criminal enterprise would have struck   
   them   
   > as ridiculous, even sacrilegious.   
   >   
   > Until now.   
   >   
   > We're talking about Vatican City, of course.   
   >   
   > Read more! https://unherd.com/2021/08/the-corruption-of-the-vatican/   
      
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