Did the Vatican Just Put a Noose Around Its Neck?
Did the Vatican Just Put a Noose Around Its Neck?
Last week Pope Francis ordered the U.S. bishops to abstain from voting on measures aimed at addressing homosexual abuse. Breitbart.com writes that this may have undermined the Vatican’s pillar of legal defense when charged in U.S. courts with negligence in dealing with homosex abuse, namely, the relative independence of the dioceses from Vatican oversight. Foreign governments have immunity from prosecution in U.S. courts. But there are exceptions, one of which is the so-called “tort exception” clause which applies when it can be demonstrated that U.S. bishops were following official Vatican policy. This could open the Holy See to multi-billion dollar claims.
Expensive Furniture
Furniture belonging to the late Cardinal Jean Louis Tauran, which disappeared after his death in July, has been found by police in a Ladispoli warehouse near Rome. Tauran, who belonged to the modernist faction, was …More