Vatican: Secret Stories

Pope Francis is trying to reform the Catholic Church in depth. He wants to restore its image and give it back its place on the world stage. But like his predecessors, he is running into a wall of conservatism within his administration. Some even say he is in danger.

Corruption, embezzlement, pedophilia cases, since its creation in 1929, the Vatican State, the seat of the Catholic Church, has been navigating troubled waters.

Who secretly runs the Vatican?
How did we get to this point? How does this opaque administration work? Who secretly runs the Vatican? Does the Pope really have the power? To understand, we must go back in history, to the time when the Church signed a pact with the fascist leader Benito Mussolini to become a State, at the dawn of the Second World War. Made like a political thriller, this documentary looks back at the scandals hushed up for decades up to the recent revelations of the Vatileaks affair, passing through the balance of power and secret diplomatic negotiations with the Third Reich and the USSR. It allows us to raise some fundamental questions such as the place of the Catholic Church in today's world. And then, is France still a Christian country? Is the Pope in danger? By Yannick Adam de Villiers