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The Vatican is a rather interesting construction that hovers between a religious institution, a financial institution and a state and enjoys privileges in each way that ordinary states only can dream off.
No church has diplomatic envoys and it's own designated army or it's own state (one can say that Islam has it in the form of Saudi Arabia) or it's own diplomatic legations.
So .. what should we do. As a state and nation it does not fulfill the basic criteria for a democratic society and yet no official complaint has gone to the Vatican for human rights violations (it's assistance to suppressing popular uprisings in Latin America, it's induced genocide in Africa (by denying Africans the use of condoms) and it's widespread abuse of children (and it's attempts to suppress it) - let alone the allegations that they are into all sorts of shady deals (remember the murder of "Gods Banker" Roberto Calvi and large-scaled money laundering).
So.. with all kind of stuff going on: can your country as a "decent" nation continue to have the same kind of diplomatic relations with this entity that is both a religion, a criminal network and a state or should attempts be made to marginalise the Vatican and separate the Catholic church in your country from the Vatican ?
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