Secrets of the Vatican Written, directed and produced by Antony Thomas for the US Public Broadcasting System TV series "Frontline", "Secrets of the Vatican" was co-produced by Jason Berry in the United States and Helen Fitzwilliam in Rome. "(in order of first appearance)" Secrets of the Vatican Secrets of the Vatican is an American television documentary film. It was first aired on the PBS Channel on 25 February 2014 as an episode of PBS' "Frontline" TV series. The film covers the period after the death of John Paul II up to the first year of Pope Francis while positing a theory of what made
Vatican during the Savoyard era (1870–1929) the pope. The popes of the 19th and 20th centuries exercised their spiritual authority with increasing vigor and in every aspect of religious life. By the crucial pontificate of Pope Pius IX (1846 - 1878), for example, papal control over worldwide Catholic missionary activity was firmly established for the first time in history. Vatican during the Savoyard era (1870–1929) Vatican during the Savoyard Era 1870-1929 describes the relation of the Vatican to Italy, after 1870, which marked the end of the Papal State and 1929, when the papacy regained autonomy in the Lateran Treaty, a period dominated by the Roman