In this installment of Chicago Hope Pope, we’re going to show how the very stupid and effeminate Marco Rubio – who claims to be Catholic – is wrong about the role of Vatican City Popes. “I understand there’s this temptation to cover the papacy as a political office. It is not a political office. It is a spiritual office,” Little Marco said, while he was in Turkey, of all places! He thinks his own pope is just like some country preacher down in the Everglades, apparently – some loser dude with a bible, out there saving souls and hosting pancake breakfasts.
Vatican City is indeed a sovereign state , recognized as such by the UN, and the head of that State is the pope. Vatican City does have a spiritual mission, of course, but the Vatican has enjoyed temporal power almost continually since the Donation of Pepin and the Papal States. There is a long and arduous history to the Holy See’s temporal power, and I don’t have room for it here, but holy cripes, Little Marco, even you should know about the Lateran Treaty of 1929!
As it happens, I chose to lead off my entire tome, On the Exaltation of Mars, with a discussion about how Benedict XVI renounced his papacy on the 84th anniversary of the Lateran Treaty. It’s kind of a big deal for that Roman Catholic Church. The radix is hardly a secret:
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