what country is vatican city in?
Rome
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 Vatican City ( through the Holy See ) 

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 In the Archdiocese of Milan , with around five million Catholics the largest in Europe , Mass is celebrated according to the Ambrosian Rite . Other Latin Church rites include the Mozarabic and those of some religious institutes . These liturgical rites have an antiquity of at least 200 years before 1570 , the date of Pope Pius V 's Quo primum , and were thus allowed to continue . 

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 Vatican City : Pope Benedict XVI stated the murder was " an act of inhuman violence that offends the dignity of the human being . " " The pope also denounced the 5 @-@ year @-@ long Iraq war , saying it had provoked the complete breakup of Iraqi civilian life . ' Enough with the slaughters . Enough with the violence . Enough with the hatred in Iraq ! ' Benedict said to applause at the end of his Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter 's Square . " 

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 Differently from the Holy See , in existence for almost two thousand years , the Vatican City was not a sovereign state until the 20th century . In the 19th century the annexation of the Papal States by the Kingdom of Sardinia , and the subsequent establishment of the Kingdom of Italy , was not recognized by the Vatican . However , by the Lateran Treaty of 1929 , the Kingdom of Italy recognized Vatican City as an independent city state , and vice versa . Since then , the elected monarch of the Vatican City state has been the current pope . The pope still officially carries the title " King of the Ecclesiastical State " ( in Latin : Rex Status Ecclesiæ ) . 

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 Rumors that both sides are assembling nuclear weapons in space and that a nuclear weapon has been detonated increase public and international tensions . At the abbey , the current abbot , Dom Jethras Zerchi , recommends to New Rome that the Church reactivate the Quo Peregrinatur Grex Pastor Secum ( " Whither Wanders the Flock , the Shepherd is with Them " ) contingency plans involving " certain vehicles " the Church has had since 3756 . A " nuclear incident " occurs in the Asian Coalition city of Itu Wan : an underground nuclear explosion has destroyed the city , and the Atlantic Confederacy counters by firing a " warning shot " over the South Pacific . 
