And how had Kohler managed all this treachery within the Vatican walls?

The fully digital improved-definition equipment just coming on line, the producers felt, would better depict the art collections that litter Vatican walls as trees line national parks.

From just outside the Vatican walls, a Pope John Paul II beer bottle opener, familiarly known as a "church key".

Their starting salaries are high compared with those elsewhere in Italy, or the "outside," as the association spokesman calls the world outside the Vatican walls.

Inside her apartment, he finds a photo of Anna Maria who, dressed as a nun, is standing in front of a Vatican wall.

Pius IX, who died in 1878, spent his last years a prisoner behind Vatican walls, reviled by Italian nationalists.

The story takes us behind the Vatican walls during the reign of a dying pope.

In a change made in 1996, John Paul said the cardinals would be housed in a hotel within the Vatican walls that he had built.

He said, however, that outdoor statuary within the Vatican walls had suffered damage from airborne pollution.

In practice Italy made no attempt to interfere with the Holy See within the Vatican walls.