1·The head of the Vatican Bank Ettore Gotti Tedeschi has been sacked.
梵蒂冈银行行长埃托尔·戈蒂·特德斯基被解雇。
2·Many favour the so-called “Vatican option” whereby Palestine would become an “observer state”: not a full member, but at least no longer a mere “entity”.
很多人赞成所谓的“梵蒂冈选择”,这样巴勒斯坦将成为“观察国”:不是正式成员国,但是至少不再仅仅是个“实体”。
3·Last year, a Vatican astronomer, Guy Consolmagno, speculated that if aliens exist, they might have souls and he offered to reach out, touch and baptize them.
去年,一位梵蒂冈天文学家,盖伊-肯搜马格诺推测;如果外星人存在,它们可能就有灵魂,盖伊就要伸出手,给它们施行洗礼。
4·Faced with Numbers like that, what hope do the Vatican and its ilk really have?
面对这个数字,梵蒂冈和它的相关组织持有什么观点呢?
5·For its critics in the Vatican, it is a matter of "deep concern". For its proponents, it is "evidence of great courage".
梵蒂冈的批评家一认为此事欠“深思熟虑”,而支持者们则认为这是一次“伟大的壮举”。