vatican

Temporarily putting potential butterflies aside (though I doubt this PoD is going to change too much before 1870), I’ve recently been wondering what would happen if the Papal States still controlled Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin when the Italians capture Rome. Let’s suppose that, at the...

While reading about the ratlines and organizations that helped facilitate the movement of German people from Europe to Argentina during and after WW2 I stumbled upon this paragraph. This obviously did not materialize as the Germans lost the war and the seriousness of the proposal was probably...

So, if anyone is familiar with Hellsing, Hellsing Ultimate, or just Hellsing Abridged, in the series, a secret Nazi paramilitary organization of artificial vampires that hiding out in Brazil, called Millenium Organization, goes off to attack London, and kill countless of people. Meanwhile, the...

So first of all, how can the Vatican City State be dissolved, or not come into existence in the first place? One possibility I can think of is that one of the Popes concedes the Roman question. This was an issue for just about 60 years, ever since Italy took over the Papal States in 1870 and...

I would like to explore the possibility of an openly pro-Axis/pro-Nazi/pro-fascist Pope during WW2. I tried to brainstorm about who could become this Pope. It would have to be some clergyman with preexisting radical right-wing beliefs that would support these forces once he gets elected by the...

If Fascist Italy was neutral during WW2 and remained in a firm control of Italy to at least 1965. What effects would that have on the Vatican II Council that liberalized the Roman Catholic Church? Would Vatican II even happen at all?

Recently I perused a useful website: http://papalencyclicals.net and typed "Cathars" into the search engine. These are the search results:

This is a (hopefully) mini series of mini posts about ministates, in somewhat like Wikipedia form. Let's start with the most influential and best known ministate. Name: Holy See State, Italian: Stato della Santa Sede, Latin: Status Sanctae Sedis Capital: Vatican 41°54.2′N 12°27.2′E Official...