A Letter to Pope Francis (signatures needed)

[Pat Mustard]

Actually the vatican's onpy claim to nationhood is a treaty signed with Mussolini in 1929.  It actually satisfies none of the requirements needed for recognition by the United Nations.  Threating the vatican as a country is a polite fiction that can be dealt with at the stroke of a pen.

The Vatican has had Permanent Observer status within the UN since 1964.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See...ed_Nations


And even if you can easily discount the Vatican’s claim to nationhood, it’s surrounded on all sides by Italy, and even then, there’s no guarantee they’d participate in a RICO case against the Pope.

Observer status isn't a recognition of statehood. The ICRC is an observer since 1990 yet nobody's arguing the Red Cross is a country.