Homeless woman gives birth outside Vatican, gets offer of home

[_Abyssinia]

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A homeless woman gave birth on a cardboard box just outside St. Peter’s Square early on Wednesday in near-freezing temperatures and later received an offer of one year’s hospitality in a Vatican institution.

Police said the 35-year-old Romanian woman had gone into labor at about 2.30 a.m. in an Italian square just meters (yards) away from the Vatican.

An Italian policewoman, Maria Capone, helped deliver the baby, a girl, and her colleagues covered both with their jackets until an ambulance arrived.

news.yahoo.com/homeless-woman-gives-birth-outside-vatican-gets-offer-191916726.html

 

[PaulfromIowa]

So, will the baby be a citizen of Vatican City?

 

[Joe_5859]

So, will the baby be a citizen of Vatican City?

It does say that she was “just outside St. Peter’s Square.” So she may not have technically been in Vatican City.

It is good to hear about the Vatican helping the local poor.

 

[tamedlion]

If you can’t afford to have a home anywhere in the world, why would you go to Vatican City to find a place to live? Can some one explain that to me???

 

[tuffsmurf]

If you can’t afford to have a home anywhere in the world, why would you go to Vatican City to find a place to live? Can some one explain that to me???

Begging on the streets. There are a lot of beggers in Rome.

 

[Joe_5859]

Begging on the streets. There are a lot of beggers in Rome.

Right. Millions of tourists and pilgrims go there annually. Being a religious site, most of those people are likely more inclined to be generous than the average person.

 

[peter26]

So, will the baby be a citizen of Vatican City?

According to wiki

Unlike citizenship of other states, which is based either on jus sanguinis (birth from a citizen, even outside the state’s territory) or on jus soli (birth within the territory of the state), citizenship of Vatican City is granted jus officii, namely on the grounds of appointment to work in a certain capacity in the service of the Holy See. It usually ceases upon cessation of the appointment. Citizenship is extended also to the spouse, parents and descendants of a citizen, provided they are living with the person who is a citizen.

Anyone who loses Vatican citizenship and does not possess other citizenship automatically becomes an Italian citizen as provided in the Lateran Treaty.

So no, even if within the Vatican City boundaries.

 

[Joe_5859]

According to wiki

So no, even if within the Vatican City boundaries.

Interesting piece of trivia!