The Long Game — The Holy See: Governing Without a Country. Tuesday’s Edition

Why Some Governments Endure. Series 20 #2

In the first century AD, a small Jewish sect was spreading through the Roman Empire. Its followers believed a carpenter from Galilee had risen from the dead, and they organized themselves around that belief with surprising institutional discipline. When the movement’s leader, Peter, arrived in Rome, he became the first bishop of the most powerful city i…