In this gripping episode, host William Brown unearths the Vatican not merely as a holy city—but as a sovereign financial empire. With vast landholdings spanning continents, a secretive banking system immune to oversight, and billions in hidden assets, the Vatican functions more like a global powerbroker than a spiritual refuge. From its origins in the 1929 Lateran Treaty to modern offshore trusts and covert financial flows, this episode reveals how faith, fortune, and secrecy intertwine behind sacred walls. This is the Vatican as you’ve never heard it before—an empire built on divine rhetoric but governed by gold.