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A new book is coming out: The Vatican Secret Archives by Paul Van den Heuvel (Vdh Books, ?55) from Telegraph booksThe article (The Vatican Archive: the Pope's private library) contains some interesting tidbits about the archive, such as its length of 50 miles and the fact that it was only opened up in 2003 to scholars - but only if they know what they are looking for. Scholars are not permitted to browse through the stacks...but to me, that would be quite fascinating.
Sounds like another attempt to make the Vatican Archives something they are not. To my knowledge scholars have always been able to get access to the archives, the reforms in 2003 just made access easier. It would be cool to be able to browse the archives thouh, I bet there are all kinds of treasures to be found in there.
Yes, that does sound true; it seems that the scholars I read from must have had access in one form or another during the 20th century. I noticed the article where I read the information about the 2003 access was a bit “out there” (they suggested that evidence for Dan Brown's story was in there somewhere). So it is true that facts in articles in the MSM that cover Christian issues need to be taken with a grain of salt.
The Vatican and the Papacy in particular are often the targets of thinly veiled attacks by the MSM. Personally, I think it is envy.
A great exhibition about “100 original documents from the Vatican secret archives enlighten 12 centuries of History.”http://www.luxinarcana.org/en/
Thanks for the link. I also found this:
Here we can see pope Alexander VI’s bull Inter cetera, on the discovery of the New World; the registration of St. Francis’s Regula Bullata; the proceedings of the trial of Galileo Galilei; Charles V’s Edict of Worms; a payment notice signed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini; a brief issued by pope Clement XIV for the award of the Order of the Golden Spur to Mozart; and letters sent by illustrious correspondents: one written on silk and addressed by the empress Helena of China to pope Innocent X; one from Abraham Lincoln to pope Pius IX; one from tsar Alexis I Romanov to pope Clement X; one from Michelangelo to the bishop of Cesena, on the state of the construction work at St. Peter’s; and one from members of the English parliament to pope Clement VII, on Henry VIII’s divorce.
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