The Lateran Treaty dates back to February 11, 1929. Under the treaty, Pope Pius XI was given full sovereignty over the tiny Vatican City State. Historian John Schmidt recalls what happened during ...

Nevertheless, the Vatican refused to pay the taxes—which might run upwards of $15 million a year-citing the Lateran Treaty of 1929 between Pope Pius XI and Mussolini. At that time, Italy agreed ...

The date marks the anniversary of three historic pacts: the Lateran Treaty, which formally constituted Vatican City as an independent territorial state; a financial accord, which indemnified the ...

In an interview with Le Monde, the political scientist François Mabille analyzes the ambiguous diplomacy of a Curia torn ...

However, the Vatican’s informal relations with the ... become an independent state after the signing of the Lateran Treaty in 1929). Just about a month into the war, Cardinal Giacomo Della ...

Pope Francis arrives at the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome on Oct. 25 ... diagnosing him with pneumonia in both lungs. The Vatican said his condition was critical for the first time ...

ROME (JTA) – Nearly three years after the Vatican recognized a state of Palestine, a treaty signed this summer defining relations between the two entities has gone into effect, despite ...

There was a time in the 1870s when Italy took over the pontifical state, but other countries continued to send ambassadors to the Vatican." The Lateran Palace Treaty forged between the Holy See ...

This period lasted from the 4th century to 1870. In 1929, the independent state of Vatican City was established through the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and Italy. Vatican City became the ...

The Vatican concluded its first treaty that formally recognizes the State of Palestine, with an agreement on Catholic Church activities in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority ...

The Israeli foreign ministry said it regretted the move, calling the signing of a treaty, which implies there ... Israeli-Palestinian conflict” The Vatican signed on Friday its first treaty ...