VATICAN’S EASTERN POLICY IN 1958–2010
Journal: Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series International Relations
Year: 2015

In the past few centuries, the Vatican diplomacy has, along with the French and Russian ones, gained the reputation of one of the best in the world. Despite shifting the stress to strictly religious matters and new interest the Vatican diplomacy has shown in the problems such as international security, ecology, demography, still focuses on the relationships with traditionally Catholic European countries: Italy ex definitione, Spain and Poland, Germany with its two sides of Christianity, protesta