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... that sport in Vatican City has included cricket, calcio fiorentino, and taekwondo?
... that some Catholics considered Tom Lehrer's "The Vatican Rag" (audio featured) to be blasphemous?
... that a Vatican Hebrew manuscript has been used as a source for analysing and emending modern editions of the Palestinian Talmud?
... that the Vatican selected Mary Milligan in 1987 to be one of only three U.S. experts to assist the International Synod of Bishops on the Laity in Rome?
... that the Second Vatican Council tried to undo the latinization of Eastern Catholic liturgy?
... that Sans's boss theme, "Megalovania", was played at the Vatican as part of a circus act during an audience with Pope Francis?

...that the 22 Bodmer Papyri from a fifth-century Egyptian monastic library near Nag Hammadi contain three plays by Menander and fragments of the Iliad, as well as early versions of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John?"

... that Eugenio Pacelli's (future Pope Pius XII) 1936 visit was planned, in part, to investigate and silence Catholic priest and New Deal opponent Charles Coughlin?

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... that Bishop Aloisius Muench, the liaison between the Vatican and the U.S. post-war occupation authority in Germany, referred to the latter as "other Hitlers in disguise"?

...that a portion of the Palatine Library returned to Heidelberg in 1816, almost two centuries after it was looted from city by the Catholic League?"

...that the 22 Bodmer Papyri from a fifth-century Egyptian monastic library near Nag Hammadi contain three plays by Menander and fragments of the Iliad, as well as early versions of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John?"

...that Cædwalla of Wessex conquered southeast England during his brief 7th century reign?

...that capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969?

...that Pope Pius XII's retention of Cesare Orsenigo (pictured left, with Hitler and von Ribbentrop) as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany is a "chief point of criticism" of his response to the Holocaust?

...that in the Vatican's Cortile del Belvedere Bramante created the first monumental formal garden design of the Renaissance?

... that Eugenio Pacelli's (future Pope Pius XII) 1936 visit was planned, in part, to investigate and silence Catholic priest and New Deal opponent Charles Coughlin?

... that President Truman's own pastor came out publicly against his appointment of General Mark Wayne Clark (pictured) as ambassador to Pope Pius XII?

...that Pope Constantine, in 711, was the last pope to visit Constantinople for over 1250 years?

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