RT Lepanto Institute (@LepantoInst)Because it's been such a prevalent topic recently, we started digging through newspaper archives going back 130 years when the Zionist movement began. Regardless of your personal thoughts on the matter, the truth is, the Vatican has never supported the religious foundation for Jewish rule over what we now call Israel (formerly called Palestine), and in fact has actively opposed it. This article from 1985 was particularly interesting (since it is post-Vatican II), wherein t ...