I agree with Min. As the world turns more and more secular, eventually the Vatican, along with the Catholic church itself, will become totally irrelevant in the world scene. They pretty much are now anyway. True, the last pope liked to travel around a lot in order to try to spread goodwill, but I don't think the current poop gets out much.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.