Population: 764

Interior of Saint Peter's, Rome by Giovanni Paolo Panini

Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Italy. Photo by Gabriella Clare Marino.

Piazza San Pietro, Città del Vaticano, Roma, ITALIA

Joe Rogan on Vatican City 🤔

Rome, Italy

Photography by Karina Wieclawska

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City: The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply Saint Peter's Basilica, is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy. Wikipedia

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City: The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply Saint Peter's Basilica, is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy. Wikipedia

Some days in a scorching Rome

I wonder what the implications of Godzilla nesting in Rome are for the catholic church

Transgender activists and allies on Monday decried the Vatican's new doctrine against gender-affirming surgery as "hurtful" and devoid of the voices and experiences of trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people, especially in its distinction between transgender and intersex people. "The suggestion that gender-affirming health care — which has saved the lives of so many wonderful trans people and enabled them to live in harmony with their bodies, their communities and (God) — might risk or diminish trans people's dignity is not only hurtful but dangerously ignorant," said Mara Klein, a non-binary, transgender activist who has participated in Germany's church reform project. "Seeing that, in contrast, surgical interventions on intersex people — which if performed without consent especially on minors often cause immense physical and psychological harm for many intersex people to date — are assessed positively just seems to expose the underlying hypocrisy further," Klein said. The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery as well as surrogacy as grave violations of "human dignity," putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that it says rejects God's plan for human life.

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Most people live their lives laying prostrate before a false god, waiting for a cue to rise. There are no cues, only decisions. Shall I have dessert? Shall I have the best of the wine? Shall I love the person next to me?

-- Lawren Leo

(Vatican)

Saint Longinus - St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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Views of Rome from the cupola of St. Peters.