Archives on the Inquisition to be organized.Vatican City Vatican City (văt`ĭkən), independent state (2005 est. pop. 900), 108.7 acres (44 hectares), within the city of Rome, Italy, and the residence of the pope, who is its absolute ruler. -- The Vatican is opening its archives on the Inquisition as part of a new project with Italy's Culture Ministry and Italian universities Many of the world's oldest universities are located in Italy, in particular the University of Bologna (founded in 1088). Universities are supported by state funding so that students do not have to pay much for tuition. . The purpose, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a Vatican statement, is to locate and catalogue documents concerning both the Roman and the Spanish Inquisitions and make them easily available to scholars. This consolidation of knowledge is being "carried out according to the criteria established by common agreement and with the most advanced technological instruments. This will not only safeguard this cultural patrimony PATRIMONY. Patrimony is sometimes understood to mean all kinds of property but its more limited signification, includes only such estate, as has descended in the same family and in a still more confined sense, it is only that which has descended or been devised in a direct line from the , but will also facilitate knowledge in many fields of research, from the history of religious and scientific doctrines to that of popular cultures and the systems of social control in use between the medieval age and modern times," according to Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro Valls Doctor Joaquín Navarro Valls, M.D., (born November 16, 1936, Cartagena, Spain) was the Director of the Holy See (Vatican) Press Office, taking the post in 1984. His role as the press liaison between the Vatican and the world press corps gave him perhaps the highest visibility of . The new project also appears to be part of John Paul II's effort to examine and heal what he has previously called "wounds to the collective memory" (Nat. Post, Nov. 10; Zenit, Nov. 9, 2004). |
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