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Showing Original Post only (View all)Roman Church admits the Pope’s Guilt: Joseph Ratzinger to Evade Justice and Hide out in the Vatican [View all]
Last edited Sat Feb 23, 2013, 08:09 AM - Edit history (1)
In a statement to Reuters today, Vatican officials announced that Joseph Ratzinger will remain a permanent resident of Vatican City after his resignation. Doing so will offer him legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him in connection with sexual abuse cases around the world, Church sources said today"His continued presence in the Vatican is necessary, otherwise he might be defenseless".
This startling admission of guilt by the church is also a direct obstruction of justice, and lends more weight to the charge by the ITCCS and others that the Vatican has arranged with the Italian government to shield Ratzinger from criminal prosecution, in violation of international laws ratified by Italy.
The Pope will remain a citizen of the Vatican City and therefore have immunity from prosecution within Italy, which upholds the Lateran Pacts from 1929 with the Holy See, and which established the Vatican City as a sovereign state. Pope Benedict XVI will become the first Pope to resign his Papacy since the 1414 resignation of Pope Gregory XII, and he will become the first to voluntarily quit his post as leader of the Catholic Church since Pope Celestine V in 1294.
Leaving the Vatican and Italy could result in the ex-Pope's arrest, since several countries have made plans to charge him with crimes, and possibly turn him over to an International court for prosecution. He will have no immunity if he leaves the Vatican City and Italy.
Source: The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS - located in Brussels, Belgium)
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Roman Church admits the Pope’s Guilt: Joseph Ratzinger to Evade Justice and Hide out in the Vatican [View all]
Katashi_itto
Feb 2013
OP
There's also been the banking scandal that has been going on for a long time
AngryOldDem
Feb 2013
#102
Both of them actually: "This is how liberty dies.....with thunderous applause!"
LongTomH
Feb 2013
#107
Could it have been the fact that he was considered to be the Vatican's "pit bull"?
AngryOldDem
Feb 2013
#114
...and the US Supreme Court (R) is - alas - a freaking fiefdom of the Corrupt Catholic Cult (R)
Berlum
Feb 2013
#10
He will lose diplomatic immunity for a few weeks until his successor makes him
NYC Liberal
Feb 2013
#61
I thought that one said he was the last Pope by number. No more. Who'd've thought?
freshwest
Feb 2013
#88
American leaders are afraid of getting anthrax in their coffee if they prosecute Bush etal. nt
valerief
Feb 2013
#20
If it appears to be a major coincidence, then, duh, it is most likely is, is my thinking.
valerief
Feb 2013
#23
George AWOL Bush's buddy "Kenny Boy" is soaking up the rays on a beach somewhere
Berlum
Feb 2013
#30
At least it is a traditional state, not a special legal exclusion zone protecting a cult of peds
Coyotl
Feb 2013
#106
Vatican Bank (R) is the real scandal -- just waiting for the other sandal to drop
Berlum
Feb 2013
#72
Looking at the way people threw Joe Paterno under the bus for things that happened at Penn State,
tarheelsunc
Feb 2013
#40
'Political Reasons' .......... and what political reasons would that be??
midwest irish
Feb 2013
#54
This article is deceitful. nothing has been admited - nothing yet is known..there are accusations -
Douglas Carpenter
Feb 2013
#47
I wonder what was in those papers the butler snuck out of the Vatican, and if that is why
peacebird
Feb 2013
#57
Reading comprehension much? There is ZERO "admission of guilt" in the article.
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#65
Isn't it ironic that when these Catholics are confronted, they don't confess & ask for forgiveness,
SunSeeker
Feb 2013
#83
I know a "Catholic" who does exactly that: Gets angry, and then continues to ignore
lindysalsagal
Feb 2013
#112
So we are letting a treaty made between the Vatican and a fascist state get in the way of justice?
white_wolf
Feb 2013
#90
We did all of this last week: The timing is exactly to avoid prosecution because the Rhode Island
lindysalsagal
Feb 2013
#113