Vatican Secret Archives

[fragmentsofdreams]

Why do they still call them secret if they offer CD-ROM on the Holy See's website?
http://www.vatican.va/library_archives/vat_secret_archives/collections/index.htm

 

[seebs]

Is this related to the rumor that there's a special room that only the Pope ever goes in, and there's Secret Stuff there?

 

[fragmentsofdreams]

I don't think so. There is a link on their website saying "Secret Vatican Archives." It seems to me like they are doing an awfully bad job of keeping them secret.

 

[sklippstein]

ha......if they are on the web.....how could they be secret? (I too have heard that there is a room where only the Pope can enter.....also heard that there are some very famous paintings in this room.) Anyone know if this is true?

 

[dignitized]

you know what - I'll bet that that is where they are hiding the body of pope joan too!! lol

 

[Wolseley]

The Vatican bungles a lot of its jobs. According to Jack Chick, secret agents from the Vatican have been trying to murder Alberto Rivera for decades, and the last I heard, ol' Al was still going strong, hopping from one state to another, one jump ahead of his latest batch of bad checks.

Apparently the Holy See is terribly incompetant when it comes to a lot of this stuff........

 

[seebs]

Can there be much higher praise for a Christian organization than "completely unable to assassinate its enemies"?

 

[ZooMom]

And the secret archives are in Italian! Diabolical! How'm I supposed to read that?!

 

[seebs]

Well, you have to realize, it's in Italian because, quite literally, Italian is the language of "il diavolo"!

 

[kern]

seebs, were you talking about that rumor that the Vatican has the largest collection of pornography in the world? I wonder where that idea comes from -- it doesn't seem to make any sense at all.

-Chris

 

[fragmentsofdreams]

It seems that a large pornography collection is a common charge against those people wish to portray as morally devient. I remember hearing a similar charge concerning the leader of North Korea.

 

[seebs]

I hadn't heard that one; I remember someone in college saying there's a special room that only the Pope can go in, and no one else knows what's in it. Perhaps secret relics. Perhaps the Sinister Truth About Catholicism. Perhaps a quiet place where previous Popes have written a few inspiring messages over the year. Who knows? Very sinister sounding. If there's any truth to it at all, I suspect it's either mundane or glorious, but not sinister.