What possessed the Vatican to call its most contentious reservoir of documents the “Secret Archives”? Don’t they realize that, to inquisitive outsiders, the name is like a red flag to a bull? Dr. Marco Grilli, the secretary to the prefecture of the archives, tried in vain to clarify: “The word secret is misleading,” he said. “Archivum Secretum means ‘private archive’ in Latin, rather than hidden. It contains the personal records of the popes. Not too many secret
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