I'm not ashamed to admit I've enjoyed playing map games like Victoria 2 before, and one thing I always found fun was to take an Italian state and use it to acquire colonies somewhere in the world, usually in Asia or the Americas. Obviously, this is a far fetched possibility, but i'm curious what everyone thinks the prospects are for the Papal States acquiring, administering, and potentially retaining New World colonies. Obviously, as with Courland and KoM colonization TL's the impact on history is probably going to be minimal and reliant upon a lot of handwaving. But what's the most realistic scenario you can think of for Papal colonies?