In September 2001, a document known as the " Chinon Parchment " dated 17 – 20 August 1308 was discovered in the Vatican Secret Archives by Barbara Frale, apparently after having been filed in the wrong place in 1628.

* Ludwig von Pastor, History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages ; Drawn from the Secret Archives of the Vatican and other original sources, 40 vols.

A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII.

* Register of Boniface VIII: The Indiction of the Holy Year 1300 ( Vatican Secret Archives )

* The 1303 document founding the University of Rome La Sapienza ( Vatican Secret Archives )

* The 1303 document joining several schools into the University of Avignon ( Vatican Secret Archives )

The Vatican Secret Archives (), located in Vatican City, is the central repository for all of the acts promulgated by the Holy See.

In the 17th century, under the orders of Pope Paul V, the Secret Archives were separated from the Vatican Library, where scholars had some very limited access to them, and remained absolutely closed to outsiders until 1881, when Pope Leo XIII opened them to researchers, more than a thousand of whom now examine its documents each year.

The use of the word " secret " in the title " Vatican Secret Archives " does not denote the modern meaning of confidentiality.

* Procopius ' long-lost Secret History is rediscovered in the Vatican Library.

* Ludwig von Pastor, History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages ; Drawn from the Secret Archives of the Vatican and other original sources, 40 vols.

Letter by Manuel I Komnenos to Pope Eugene III on the issue of the crusades ( Constantinople, 1146, Vatican Secret Archives ): with this document, the Emperor answers to a previous papal letter, where the Pope asks Louis VII of France to free the Holy Land and reconquer Edessa, Mesopotamia | Edessa.

When he firmly re-asserted the scholastic doctrine that science and religion co-exist, he required the study of Thomas Aquinas and opened the Vatican Secret Archives to qualified researchers, among whom was the noted historian of the Papacy Ludwig von Pastor.

The document is currently stored in the Vatican Secret Archives.

Pirates and the Lost Templar Fleet: The Secret Naval War Between the Knights Templar and the Vatican.

In September 2001, Barbara Frale found a copy of the Chinon Parchment in the Vatican Secret Archives, a document which explicitly confirms that in 1308 Pope Clement V absolved Jacques de Molay and other leaders of the Order including Geoffroi de Charney and Hugues de Pairaud.

* Procopius's long-lost Secret History is rediscovered in the Vatican Library.

The Vatican withheld the Third Secret until 26 June 2000, despite Lúcia's declaration that it could be released to the public after 1960.

" When 1960 arrived, rather than releasing the Third Secret, the Vatican published an official press release stating that it was " most probable the Secret would remain, forever, under absolute seal.

Some sources claim that the four-page, handwritten text of the Third Secret released by the Vatican in the year 2000 is not the real secret, or at least not the full secret.

The Vatican has maintained its position that the full text of the Third Secret was published in June 2000.

Bertone, along with Cardinal Ratzinger, co-authored The Message of Fatima, the document published in June 2000 by the Vatican that allegedly contains a scanned copy of the original text of the Third Secret.

On May 13, 1942, the 25th anniversary of the first apparition and the silver jubilee of the episcopal consecration of Pope Pius XII, the Vatican published the Message and Secret of Fátima.

* Holy See: Archive: Documents of the II Vatican Council: Dignitatis Humanae ( full text in English )

* 1817: Vatican Secret Archive brought back to the Vatican from France.

On 19 April 1982 Serbian academician Radovan Samardžić recommended him to the State Archive of Italy and is employed by the Italian Foreign Ministry and works on the collection of sources in the Vatican Secret Archives, the Archive of the Propaganda Fide and the Venetian Archive.

* Vatican: The Holy See Official Website of the Papacy

* Official Vatican page on Pius XII

* Official documents of the Second Vatican Council-Constitutions

* Official site of Vatican City State

* Official Vatican biography

* Official Vatican Statement releasing the Third Secret of Fátima ( co-authored by Cardinal Ratzinger and Cardinal Bertone )

One of the more famous pastors of St. Joseph's was Raymond Ettledorf, who as an Archbishop served Apostolic Delegate to New Zealand, as a pro-Nuncio to Ethiopia, and as an Official of State at the Vatican.

* John Rogan as Vatican Official

* Vatican Radio Official website ( multi-lingual )

Past performances: Amal has appeared in an array of international music festivals, including: Womex ( Spain ); Festival Of Arab Arts ( Liverpool, UK ); Bath Festival ( UK ); Tudos Os Cuntus De Nondos ( Brazil ); " Almadina " ( Tunisia ); Ethnos ( Italy ); Ethnic Music Festival ( Sicily ); The Whit Night ( Naples ); The Jubilee Day Live Show ( Vatican 2000 ); The Dho Ziff, Festival Of World Culture ( Ireland );" Elias Crean " ( Madrid ); Casa De Arab Official Evening ( Madrid ); Tira & Peace ( San Marino ); " Voices " ( Luxemburg ); and The Royal Festival ( London ).

* Official Vatican Statement releasing " The Message of Fátima "

* Official World Youth Day 2002 documents from the Vatican

* Vatican Official Assails a Myth About New Church Movements: Sees Them as Committed to Social and Charitable Work

* Official Vatican channel on YouTube

Examples include blocking several religious sites ( including the Web site of the Vatican ), many political sites, and sites about gay / lesbians.

* The full text in English on the Vatican Web site

* Web Gallery of Art: Visit to the Sistine Chapel in Vatican

* Excerpt from Gladstone's The Vatican Decrees in Their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: a Political Expostulation at Victorian Web