@torinrussell: Why does the Pope have one of the best intelligence networks on Earth? #geopolitics #vatican #catholic #intelligence #History

Matija Pinko :

My grandma report everything that happens in our village to our priest, so she’s tehnically a spy for the pope

andy :

What did the Maldives do

Manuel Millán Gómez :

So they Holy See everything

gruenkohlfresser :

Romes plans are measured in centuries

Adam :

When the US government threatened Vatican City with the Avignon papacy rule, basically telling them they’ll overthrow the Pope to do as they please. I think they forgot that pretty much every Catholic in the world would die for the Church before they die for their country

Joel Conolly :

And they say Catholicism is a bad influence. This is just one of many things that Catholic do in pursuit of "making sure the world doesn't collapse on itself".

Mukamik :

I would love a series on Vatican finances

green onion :

They’re like the Bene Gesserit 😳

✞Malachi✞ :

Are we not gonna talk about how much aura the name "Holy see" has

Buga. :

great analyst, research and articulating journalist.

🐻 :

so The DaVinci Code isn’t so far stretched at all

Baseboy :

so Rome never left

EKAT SIHT SREGDOR :

remember lord your spread throughout the world and bring her to the fullness of charity

Nathalia Rodrigues :

Jesuits specially are super intellectual, usually they have 2 college degrees and the order incentivizes higher studies. As a Brazilian who went to a jesuit school, we learn that they have always been instrumental in power dynamics across LatAm: They have studied indigenous languages and actually wrote grammar books to exchange between them and Portuguese, they have gathered native peoples’ support in the colonial period, and the first schools were founded by them so the elite could be educated. To this day the teachings of Jesuits imply that someone should be better educated to rule society

DOBabatunde :

so the church is the government?

Acqvarius :

The Church always and genuinely pursues only its own interests, even when it does not appear to be doing so. It is, after all, a millennium-old institution with strong ambitions for control and authority. And it knows it has time on its side.✨

subsidies7789 :

What's more interesting are all the information and knowledge that's being kept secret inside the Vatican Apostolic Archives

aquacarenwa :

Talk about the grey pope and his past history and the history of his family. True power and covert influence.

gettsetter :

Damn I've always taught of the Jesuits as the most liberated and most pro-education orders but didn't know they operated in intelligence that way lol

Smoking Dandy :

We actually don’t know he’s not ordering assassins and spies 😬

SAH :

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Phrank* :

Sacrament of Reconciliation gets the best Intel. 🤣

AbrohamLincoln51 :

Once knew a priest who was a CIA asset in Poland & Czechoslovakia during communism. This stuff is real. And the stuff about the orders operating as like specialized intelligence agencies, also real lol. Not clandestine or covert but like imagine Sherlock Holmes homeless intelligence network…but for the whole planet.

Brady Schroeder :

ZestyLefty :

Intelligence gathering has always been the primary function of the confessional.