Prisoner in the Vatican the Basilica of St. John Lateran, situated on the opposite side of the city of Rome, and to travel regularly to their summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, from Rome. Prisoner in the Vatican A prisoner in the Vatican or prisoner of the Vatican (; ) is how Pope Pius IX was described following the capture of Rome by the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy on 20 September 1870. Part of the process of Italian unification, the city's capture ended the millennial temporal rule of the popes over central Italy and allowed Rome to be designated the capital of
Inside the Vatican Inside the Vatican Inside the Vatican is a monthly magazine relating to issues within the Roman Curia, at the Vatican in Rome, which is at the very heart of the Roman Catholic Church and Christianity as a whole. "Inside the Vatican" is published ten times a year, having begun its first publication in April 1993. The magazine has an editorial office in Front Royal, VA. It claims a readership of 17,500 and a circulation of 15,000, primarily in the US and Canada. The magazine attempts to fully analyze the impact of the Holy See in the modern world and its