While the Lateran Pacts – which established Vatican City as a sovereign state and govern relations between it and Italy – allow the Vatican to assert its rights to the Italian government, this ...

February 11 is a national holiday inItaly. The date marks the anniversary of three historic pacts: the Lateran Treaty, which formally constituted Vatican City as an independent territorial state ...

From the Vatican’s point of view, the issue had been settled for all time by the 1929 Lateran Pacts, in which the Vatican recognized the new Italian state and, in exchange, Italy recognized the ...

Faithful crowd the square during the Easter Holy mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square at, at the Vatican, Sunday, March 27, 2016. (Credit: Angelo Carconi/ANSA via AP Photo ...

The first constitution was issued in 1929 following the signing of the Lateran Pacts, which founded the city state of the Vatican and guaranteed its sovereignty. The new law will go into effect ...

(ANSA) - Rome, February 17 - Premier Matteo Renzi, with several members of his cabinet, held a summit Tuesday with senior Vatican officials to mark the 86th anniversary of the Lateran Pacts. The ...

Only the Lateran Pacts, in 1929, would initiate a new phase. Perhaps this is also why this complex operation was carried out in utmost secrecy and without any pomp.