From: revd@gmail.comm   
      
   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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