Definition of Vatican

Vatican

A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc.

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Vatican Quotations

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.
Bill Cosby

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Thomas Paine

What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.
Charlie Sheen

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
Elayne Boosler

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
Robert Hughes

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.
Andres Serrano

There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.
Godfried Danneels

Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
Godfried Danneels

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?
Aaron Allston

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
Lance Morrow

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.
Francis Arinze

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Vatican Translations

Vatican in Afrikaans is Vatikaan
Vatican in Dutch is Vaticaan
Vatican in French is Vatican
Vatican in Portuguese is Vaticano
Vatican in Spanish is Vaticano
vatican in Swedish is vatikanen

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