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Originally Posted by Daradon
...Actually I'm confusing/combining that with the Vatican Library it turns out. Which is what I'd want to see, though the archives would be quite enlightening too....
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What you are confusing here is
FACT and
MYTH. Both the
Vatican Library (
Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) and the
Secret Vatican Archives (
Archivio Segreto Vaticano) are Catholic institutions that have maintained open scholarly access for many years now.
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Originally Posted by Daradon
Oh man, I would love to have access to that. We're not talking all churchy stuff here. They have taken, stolen, inherited, amazing bits of stuff from nearly all around the world, often to suppress it...
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Such as what? Even though I believe that the well organised, wealthy, and strictly hierarchical Catholic Church is probably the only establishment on the entire planet that would be capable of such high-level conspiracies, I am exceedingly skeptical that there has ever been even a single one—certainly not anything like what you have implied here.
I'm curious: What sorts of things do you imagine that the Catholic church has suppressed through theft and secrecy? What sort of clandestine truths do you imagine would be verified through access to what presides in the Bibliotheca and/or the Archivio?