After a raid on a storeroom near St Peter’s Square, police have seized a cache of 340,000 illicit Vatican souvenirs worth some US$2million. The souvenirs carried the Pope’s photo without permission, as well as illegally carrying the Vatican coat of arms and the emblem of the papal tiara. The merchants selling the trinkets wanted to Read more
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Vatican clamps down on sales of papal blessing scrolls
Friday, September 12th, 2014
The Vatican is restricting the sale of plaques and parchments with papal blessings, stopping Rome souvenir shops selling them from next year. Shops close to St Peter’s Square have been selling such blessings at a considerable profit. But Bishop Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, said that beginning on January 1, 2015, such papal blessings will Read more