Italian journalist Massimo Franco wrote a book called Imperi Paralleli (“Parallel Empires”), arguing that the intersection between Washington and Rome has driven a great deal of history over the last two centuries.
In the US, it’s the Jan. 6 Committee, while in the Vatican it’s the “trial of the century,” featuring charges against a cardinal and nine other defendants for financial crimes. As fate would have it, both procedures held their first public hearing on the very same day – July 27, 2021, so we’re coming up on the one-year anniversary for each.
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