The most corrupt nation state in Western Europe occupies only 120 acres of land
and has fewer than 1,000 residents. But its capacity for initiating criminal behaviour, and the global consequences of the financial and sexual scandals in which itβs entangled, are hugely out of proportion to its size.
Thatβs because, around the world, roughly a billion people traditionally regard
the stateβs geriatric absolute monarch as Godβs representative on earth. They
may have been aware that, for centuries, a few bad apples in the administration
have betrayed the monarchβs trust by embezzling money. But the notion that the
whole state was slowly turning into a criminal enterprise would have struck them
as ridiculous, even sacrilegious.
Until now.
We're talking about Vatican City, of course.
Read more! https://unherd.com/2021/08/the-corruption-of-the-vatican/
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