03-04-2010, 11:45 AM
David Guyatt Wrote:More recently there was some sort of arrangement with Bush not to push the Vatican about the pedophilia law suits and the Vatican wouldn't push Bush on the war crimes and atrocities. I can't recall is it was the panzer pope or the Polish pope though.Jan Klimkowski Wrote:The Vatican strategy, as far as it can be discerned, appears to be to offer non-apology apologies where the evidence of child abuse cannot be denied, whilst denying any systemic problems and denying that the Church acted inappropriately in moving paedophile priests from parish to parish to continue abusing.
However, if there was to be a proper judicial investigation, this strategy will fail and Pope Ratzinger will end up in prison. Precisely because, once again, Ratzinger was Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1981-2005, which is the Vatican's intelligence and enforcement arm.
Ratzinger knows where all the skeletons are buried, because he was in charge of burying them.
I suspect Vatican secrecy will win the day though. I cannot imagine lawyers acting for the abused being allowed anywhere near the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
If things get too difficult the Vatican will issue a diplomatic protest note to the US State Department and the law case will go away.
This is what happened in the class action lawsuit against the Vatican for laundering Yugoslavian gold.
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“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.