… Hmmmm … I guess “god’s” rights are greater than human rights. In the words of my cousin Vito, “Ya gotta a nice church here Romanus Pontifex, yeah a really nice church. It’d really be such a shame if somethin’ were to happen to it, know what I mean?”
… from the article cited … “The majority on the court, though, agreed with the Belgian courts’ findings that the Holy See cannot be held liable for the faults of bishops because they act autonomously in their own dioceses.” Genius! Why didn’t the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei think of this at Nuremburg?
That is why the best plumbers on the planet are Belgian. Sadly, they use that skill mostly in the negative!
See no evil; hear no evil; speak no evil.
The Court’s motto, engraved above their entrance.
The advantages of being a “sovereign State”…
The seers’ visions of the walls of the Vatican being pierced and mobs marching in to visit justice upon the Curia seem more and more likely day by day by day.