“I believe that with the evolving relationship between the Church and Italy, and with the jettisoning of Catholicism as state religion, the Vatican is for all means and purposes a fully independent nation with no strings attached in terms of international relations.”
The treaty seems to say otherwise though
I would agree and this explains that a Pope could speak out against Nazi Germany although it is was an alley of Italy
MIT BRENNENDER SORGE
On the Church and the German Reich
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius11/P11BRENN.HTM
The treaty seems to say otherwise though
The original one; the latest? I think that they have arrived at an understanding both written and unwritten.
I would agree and this explains that a Pope could speak out against Nazi Germany although it is was an alley of Italy
Note the language, though. Very polite and pleading.