Vatican employees vow their own version of Gandhi’s ‘Salt March’

ROME – When Mahatma Ghandi launched his famous “Salt March” in March 1930, protesting British policies banning Indians from producing their own salt, thereby compelling them to buy heavily taxed imports, he set in motion a series of events that would lead to the collapse of British colonial rule and the independence of India seventeen years later.

The phrase “Salt March” thus has passed into history as a shorthand for a movement of nonviolent civil disobedience, premised not merely on obtaining...