The Vatican has opened the doors to one of Renaissance Rome’s most spectacular palazzos in a show of transparency
The Vatican on Tuesday opened the doors to one of Renaissance Rome’s most spectacular palazzos, normally hidden from public view since it houses some of the Holy See’s most secretive offices: the ecclesial tribunals that decide everything from marriage annulments to plenary indulgences.
The head of the Vatican’s patrimony office, Monsignor Nunzio Galantino, invited television cameras into the imposing, block-long palazzo as part of what he said was Pope Francis’ call for the Holy See to be more transparent. For Galantino, whose office has published a consolidated Vatican budget for the past three years, that spirit of transparency extends to the Vatican’s vast real estate holdings.
During a tour of the building, which underwent a recent, years-long renovation, visitors passed by priests in cassocks pouring over canonical files in rooms decorated with frescoes of cherubs, gilded ceiling panels and tromp l’oeil columns. Off to one side was the wood-paneled library where Napoleon Bonaparte kept the imperial archives during the period in the early 1800s that Rome was his second capital.
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