Belgian Criminals

Why does the Poop, sorry Pope think he is in a position to criticize Belgian police who are just doing their jobs, protecting Belgian children from Belgian perverts.

I really want the United Nations to kick down the Vatican doors, and start protecting the world's kids from this worldwide collection of black robed perverts.

Ah, oh wise and waddling.

"I think that the abject failure of the authorities in many countries to deal with these scandals when they learned of them is almost as shameful as the conduct of the priests who committed the abuse and the bishops who covered it up and enabled it. Good on Belgium for going against the trend."

I never even thought of it that way. Well said.

I think you are correct, the complicity of these crimes spreads around rather thickly. There is another
story that is just beginning as well. The US feds want to talk to Ratzi, a lawsuit filed
states :
“unequivocal links to Pope Benedict XVI, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, to child sexual abuse cases in the United States,” proving that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on his watch “discouraged prosecution of accused clergy and encouraged secrecy to protect the reputation of the church.”

The pope, McMurry argued, “is the most knowledgeable living person” regarding files in the Vatican and policies imposed by the Vatican on the sexual abuse crisis."

Of course they are now circling their wagons, claims of soveriegn state status. They say it would be like demanding a deposition from the president.

Thats funny, but the Vatican probably would not want them, it would put the alter boys into way to much work,
they would have to get diddled by the locals and all those voracious newcommers. Those poor boys would be all worn out and not able to sing.

In a brief to the Supreme Court filed May 21, Neal Kumar Katyal, who is acting solicitor general, said the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the Holy See could be held vicariously liable for sexual abuse committed by a priest because he arguably could be considered an employee of the Vatican.

The Obama administration was asked by the Supreme Court to weigh in on whether the court should accept the case of Holy See v. John Doe, in which an Oregon man seeks to hold the Vatican financially responsible for his sexual abuse by a priest in the 1960s. A decision about whether the court will hear the case could come before the court adjourns in late June or once it resumes work in the fall.

A second case involving a similar effort to sue the Holy See is progressing through a U.S. District Court in Kentucky, where motions filed by the Vatican's U.S. attorney May 17 argue that the court lacks jurisdiction in the matter.

In the Kentucky case, James O'Bryan, Donald Poppe and Michael Turner want to hold the Vatican liable for actions by bishops in failing to prevent sexual abuse by priests. They argue that the bishops who supervised the abusive priests were employees of the Holy See.

Writing about the Oregon case, Katyal's brief dissected the 9th Circuit and lower court rulings. The 9th Circuit held that the unidentified plaintiff, Doe, had "sufficiently alleged" that the late Father Andrew Ronan, "was an employee of the Holy See acting within the 'scope of his employment' under Oregon law," and that his actions "can be attributed to the Holy See for jurisdictional purposes."

From The Catholic Daily News