Pope Benedict XV used his emissaries at the post-World War One treaty negotiations to have the Holy Lands (Palestine) given to the Vatican to make up for the lost money-making Papal States following the 19th-century Italian Risorgimento.

The efforts failed and Palestine ended up a British mandate.

A few years later, Pope Benedict XV (or his successor) lamented after seeing prostitution and gambling sites discreetly opening up in the Holy Lands under the British mandate:

"Blech. The Holy Lands were better off in the hands of the [Muslim] Ottomans." [sic]

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