Ironic- on the drive to work this morning I was pondering the Vatican Secret Archives.
Imagine! 600 years at least of an uninterrupted seat of power. The Vatican has no need to sway with public opinion, answers to no government, pays tax to no one, more or less has access to the leaders of all nations, controls an empire of churches which cover the globe... I suppose they have some veeeery interesting items in their collection. I wanna see!!
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Imagine! 600 years at least of an uninterrupted seat of power. The Vatican has no need to sway with public opinion, answers to no government, pays tax to no one, more or less has access to the leaders of all nations, controls an empire of churches which cover the globe... I suppose they have some veeeery interesting items in their collection. I wanna see!!
You might be disappointed. The term "secret" is used in the old sense of "personal." This is the Papal Archive, as opposed to the archive of the Curia or some other bureaucratic library. Of course, there might be something juicy somewhere, but to think that this is a "library of juicy stuff that needs to be hidden" would be a mistake.
In the interest of forestalling more Dan Brown idiocies, they should change the name to the "Pope's Own Collection" or somesuch.