The Vatican was tough.
The Vatican is, if you're not a tourist and you're not a legitimate member of the press, it's pretty hard to get in there.
and the Vatican, there's no way you could actually know what the powerful leaders of the world
I covered the Vatican, which I thought was the most secretive bureaucracy on the planet.
I'm the Official Vatican Consulate, or whatever the hell I am, to the pope on humor.
We did the Vatican, although Showtime never showed it again.
But we did the Vatican.
stacks of the Vatican which hold 150,000 manuscripts about 100,000 of them on
And we were right outside the Vatican.
Our Father who art in the Vatican, teach me to be a green advocate.
And so he let us use the Vatican.
And the controversy was that the Vatican said that this will help you prepare for confession, but it won't replace confession.
nothing else does in the Vatican for example you can I've worked in the
But the movie was called "Ghostfleet." We showed it at the Vatican, we showed it at the United Nations, we showed it
I had to basically write to the head of the Vatican.
There's this whole scene there at the Vatican with lasers and stuff.
This is actually a market very close to the Vatican.
So if you visit the Trionfale Market near the Vatican, you'll find these green banners that announce that the produce is coming from a farm,
We don't have to respond to a Vatican or a main central agency that's handing down orders.
encouragingly you have seen some stuff like that the Second Vatican it is now as I understand the official position of the Catholic Church that you don't
And then we went the next day and presented those to the pope at the Vatican.
So I got that very formal and flowery letter from the secretary general of the Vatican city state saying that I could come in.
it was the German Jesuit who was the one of the experts at the Vatican Council in the
But we're doing a new indie right now that will include the Vatican.
The best equivalent for Silicon Valley in the 13th century is the Vatican.
It's a few- it's about ten blocks away from the Vatican in a little side church.
under the NASCAR label um CA has soft drinks um the na the Vatican coming out with credit and debit cards and these
For instance, in the Catholic Church, that's what Vatican II was all about.
Unfortunately, when I was doing this research, the Vatican Library Collection was closed.
There you go. And she got in trouble with the Vatican for this book.
So it's great. You know it's good when it's been knocked by the Vatican.
But that's the title they give you so we use it and I was covering Italy and Greece and the Vatican. And when I went to Italy, I had just lost an enormous amount of weight and
be one largely of style. Greenspan's Federal Reserve was something like the Vatican. He was the Pope.
And in it, terrorists steal one eighth of a gram of antimatter from CERN to try to blow up the Vatican.
- I think so. And I think that also there are archives that are not open. Let's say the Vatican archive.
But I did manage to talk my way into the Pontifical Academy for Life, which is in the Vatican and is sort of the bioethics arm of the Vatican.
They staged a fake reformation to get people to believe that reform was possible-- all a show, orchestrated from the Vatican.
I've been talking all about Rome, but there's another really important nation in that part of Italy-- the Vatican.
That's, by the way, just three blocks north of the Vatican but a profoundly Roman district not destroyed by tourism.
One of the other ones, the really good one-- there were three really good ones-- is in the Vatican.
So coming to Serial Box, where we have a sort of episodic structure, where, for example, in "Bookburners," we have sort of supernatural secret agents working for the Vatican
And again in religion, 2011, amidst some controversy, the Vatican granted the first imprimatur to this app called Confession.
My brother, Brian is really good with the jokes, and I've actually been appointed to an official Vatican position.
I mean, certainly it was the Catholic hierarchy, and the Vatican issued a strong statement saying this would never go into effect.
This is where all of the new ideas about administration, about information processing, this is where you went, to the Vatican.
I think there ought to be some moral engagement, not by our government necessarily, but by the Vatican and other religious leaders.
And she was like already surfing, what's the New York Times, more recently, was talking about something that happened in the Vatican and said, "Holy Poggioli.
It's blah-dy, blah-dy, blah." It was a jokey thing about the Vatican.
in line. In other words, it was the great source of power for the Vatican or for the Christian church through most of its 2000 years, the fear, the fear, the fear of hell, you know.