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  • Eyeing 2025 Jubilee, Vatican opens shopping mall just off St. Peter’s Square

    03/20/2023 4:51:48 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 10 replies
    Crux ^ | March 20, 2023 | Crux Staff
    Eyeing 2025 Jubilee, Vatican opens shopping mall just off St. Peter’s SquareROME – Perhaps it was inevitable that the most storied church in Christendom eventually would be flanked by a chapel to that other defining Western creed, consumerism. Fulfilling that bit of destiny, the Vatican opened its very own shopping mall on March 16, located immediately adjacent to St. Peter’s Square.The idea behind the new 120,000 square foot “Caput Mundi” Mall, using a traditional saying about Rome as the “capital of the world,” is to appeal not only to the four million visitors who move through the Vatican every year,...