Emproph
11-05-2007, 10:32 AM
Here’s the Google search (http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=Ratzinger+Bush+%22sex+abuse%22) if you want more evil.
And this is from Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169909,00.html), so technically it would be a sin not to believe it.
U.S. Says Pope Immune From Molestation Lawsuit
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Associated Press
ROME — The U.S. Justice Department has told a Texas court that a lawsuit accusing Pope Benedict XVI of conspiring to cover up the sexual molestation of three boys by a seminarian should be dismissed because the pontiff enjoys immunity as head of state of the Holy See.
And his John..Paul.
A 1994 lawsuit against Pope John Paul II, also filed in Texas, was dismissed after the U.S. government filed a similar motion.
(written in latin, pontifical secret, holy see)
The lawsuit cites a May 18, 2001, letter from Ratzinger written in Latin to bishops around the world, explaining that "grave" crimes such as the sexual abuse of minors would be handled by his congregation and that the proceedings of special church tribunals handling the cases were subject to "pontifical secret."
The pope's lawyer, Jeffrey Lena, said Tuesday it was "appropriate" the Justice Department had determined the pope was "the sitting head of state of the Holy See."
I feel like the fact that this isn’t even a story, is now the bigger story.
Unless of course I truly am the only person who's never heard of this.
Anybody?
And this is from Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169909,00.html), so technically it would be a sin not to believe it.
U.S. Says Pope Immune From Molestation Lawsuit
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Associated Press
ROME — The U.S. Justice Department has told a Texas court that a lawsuit accusing Pope Benedict XVI of conspiring to cover up the sexual molestation of three boys by a seminarian should be dismissed because the pontiff enjoys immunity as head of state of the Holy See.
And his John..Paul.
A 1994 lawsuit against Pope John Paul II, also filed in Texas, was dismissed after the U.S. government filed a similar motion.
(written in latin, pontifical secret, holy see)
The lawsuit cites a May 18, 2001, letter from Ratzinger written in Latin to bishops around the world, explaining that "grave" crimes such as the sexual abuse of minors would be handled by his congregation and that the proceedings of special church tribunals handling the cases were subject to "pontifical secret."
The pope's lawyer, Jeffrey Lena, said Tuesday it was "appropriate" the Justice Department had determined the pope was "the sitting head of state of the Holy See."
I feel like the fact that this isn’t even a story, is now the bigger story.
Unless of course I truly am the only person who's never heard of this.
Anybody?