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The use of the word secret in the former title, "Vatican Secret Archive", does not denote the modern meaning of confidentiality. A fuller and perhaps better translation of the archive's former Latin name may be the "private Vatican Apostolic archive", indicating that its holdings are the pope's personal property, not those of any particular department of the Roman Curia or the Holy See.
The Vatican has been trying for years to debunk the idea that its vaunted secret archives are all that secret: It has opened up the files of controversial World War II-era Pope Pius XII to ...
The Vatican Secret Archives (Latin: Archivum Secretum Vaticanum), located in Vatican City, is the central repository for all of the acts promulgated by the Holy See. The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church , having primal incumbency until death, owns the archives until the next appointed Papal successor.
This is a list of archives in Vatican City. ... Vatican Secret Archives; Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Vatican Film Library; See also
There are several theories about the contents of the Vatican Apostolic Archives: some theories claim that they contain secret information about the Priory of Sion, proof that Jesus had a wife and descendants, [7] secret information about the third secret of the Fatima, the real Spear of Destiny, secret information about the Holy Grail and/or ...
He was appointed Vice-Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives by Pope John Paul II on 30 January 1995, and a few days later he was appointed Vice-Director of the Vatican School of Paleography, Diplomatics and Archives Administration. From 1989 to 2001, he was Director of the Historical Studies Centre of the Barnabite Fathers of Rome.
The recently opened archives of Pope Pius XII have shed new light on claims the World War II-era pope didn’t speak out about the Holocaust. Entire books have already been written about the ...
Cobelluzzi was also Cardinal Archivist for the Vatican Secret Archives from 1618 to 1626 [7] (the word "Secret" is better understood to mean 'private' than 'secret' in this context). [8] The Vatican library also has a record of the astrological prediction by Gioanni Bartolini for 1618, given to him when he was Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna. [9]