Vatican City

There are many occupations in the Vatican but the maintenance and custodial staff probably account for the greatest number of those employed as well as the security staff provided by the Swiss Guard and the Vatican Police. There are alos tour guides, museum staff, food service workers, clerical and administrative staff, etc.

The Second Vatican Council covered Holy Orders in Christus Dominus, Presbyterorum Ordinis, Optatam totius: Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church, Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests, and Decree on the Training of Priests. Their "views" if you will, is that this is a sacred calling from the Lord in which they are promoted to the service of Christ the Teacher, Priest and King; they are given a share in his ministry, through which the Church here on earth is being ceaselessly built up into the People of God, Christ's Body and the temple of the Spirit. The Council covered the Nature of the priesthood, the place of priests in the world, and their functions as ministers of God's Word, of the Sacraments and the Eucharist, as rulers of God's people. It also went int the relation between the bishops and the priestly body, the brotherly bond and cooperation among priests, and their duty to foster vocations. Their very priestly functions both demands and fosters holiness. The Council also goes into the spiritual requirements in the life of the priest and spends pages on the helps in the priest's life.

Vatican City

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Since Vatican city is its own city-state it does not have a capital. If i were you i would just call the capital Vatican city just because it is the only city in Vatican City. Hope that helped, Jamal

The Lateran Treaty signed by Benito Mussolini and Pope Pius XI created Vatican City.

Archbishop Dominique Mamberti is the Secretary for Relations With States for Vatican City.

The gardens date back to Medieval times when orchards and vineyards extended to the north of the Papal Apostolic Palace. In 1279, Pope Nicholas III (Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, 1277-1280) moved his residence back to the Vatican from the Lateran Palace and enclosed this area with walls. He planted an orchard (pomerium), a lawn (pratellum) and a garden (viridarium).

Saint Peter's Basilica is only one of many buildings in the Vatican, albeit the largest.

The Sistine Chapel is the main chapel of the Apostolic Palace but is only rarely used for worship.

The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter, commonly referred to as St. Peter's Basilica, is the Catholic church located in Vatican City. It has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world. It took 120 years from groundbreaking in 1506 to completion in 1626.

No, there are no customs in the Vatican. However, since all travelers to the Vatican arrive through Rome and would be subject to Italian Customs at that point.

The security of the pope is the responsibility of the Swiss Guard. For other matters of security the Vatican has its own police force.

Pets are not allowed in the Vatican. Even the pope cannot have a pet.

Vatican City did not exist as an entity until 1929 with the signing of the Lateran treaty. Before that, the Vatican was merely a neighborhood in Rome where much of the Catholic Church was located. All of central Italy, including Rome, were included in the Papal States.

The Vatican City is in Rome, Italy.

Yes, the Catholic Church is the only church in the Vatican.

Saint Peter's Square

Vatican City is an independent nation - a city-state, not a building.

In the Roman calendar in place in 1962, the last two weeks of lent were called (in English), "Passiontide". There were subtle changes in the liturgy during this time to denote the deepening Lenten observance of the passion and death of the Lord... for example, the psalm Iudica me at the foot of the altar was not said. Passiontide started on the second Sunday before Easter (the 5th Sunday in Lent-- the weekend after Laetare Sunday) and was labeled Dominica Prima Passionis (the first Sunday of the Passion). The following Sunday was simply Dominica II Passionis seu Palmis, or "the Second Sunday of the Passion or (Sunday) of Palms". On this day and through the week (Holy Week), the liturgy would become even more solemn with the distribution, blessing, and procession with palm branches on Sunday and the reading of the passions from the different gospels on Sunday and the other days of the week. In the present calendar, Passiontide is more or less equivalent to Holy Week, with little additional outward observance compared to the rest of Lent. Two seemingly vestigial practices are observed in the current liturgy. First, the prefaces of the Passion of the Lord may be used from the fifth week of Lent, on. Second, there is a small note after the Saturday Mass of the 4th week of Lent in the current missal which notes that the crucifix and statues may be covered in the Church, according to instructions from the Conference of Bishops. (I suppose that, based on these observances, one could argue that Passiontide continues to be observed in the last two weeks of Lent with its growing focus on the Passion and death of the Lord.)

Amongst other things it referred to them as 'separated brethren' implying a common Christian faith and thus promoting ecumenism.

Vatican City is a small enclosed area within the city of Rome, the capital city of Italy, Europe. Vatican City is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church and the residence of the pope. It is an independent state - a totally independent country with the pope as head of state. Because it is completely surrounded by the city of Rome, the Vatican State is very small - in fact it is the smallest independent country in the world.

The Domus Sanctæ Marthæ (Latin for Saint Martha's House; in Italian, Casa Santa Marta) is a building completed in 1996 adjacent to St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. For maps, images and additional information see the link below.