:That's an interesting story...however, unfortunately, none of the 5 newspaper sources state that the priest is playing under the flag of the Vatican, they say only that he got permission from the Cardinal to enter the tournament, which could easily have nothing to do with officially playing as the Vatican representative. There isn't any mention in the sources of "but he will play with the flag of Vaticano". 
 :On the other hand, he didn't include the link for Avvenire...when I looked it up () - assuming I found the right one (how many articles on chess can there be in the last few weeks at a paper aligned with the Catholic Church?), there wasn't any reference to this Valerio Prio at all...yes, I searched the Avvenire website and there were no hits for this name. The article can be found at . 
 :Adolivio Capece appears to be the editor "Italia scacchistica" (), (a loose translation is 'Chess playing Italy'), so I don't know what to do with this... 
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