Vatican Rejects Cover-Up Claims Over Cloyne Report
well of course they did

"Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoset"

The pillaging continues, the Vatican is relentless.

The Vatican forgot one of the ten commandments - Thou shalt not lie and the hidden 11th stealth commandment - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors children.

Unfortunately, the Vatican continues to deny the undeniable instead of admitting years of cover-up on a global basis. The Pope may want to expand his private confessional to accomodate his cardinals and bishops. There's going to be a lot of Hail Mary's and Our Father's being said!

I am a lapsed Catholic who had a "close encounter of a creepy kind".

I think the statement that the church put its reputation ahead of the welfare of children is pretty obvious. But in the US (in contrast), nothing happens and no one says anything. So at least the Irish people have something to say about it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/us/20bishop.html

For heavens' sake, Vatican isn't going to change!!

Certainly not with BXVII in charge, who ran the Inquisition under JPII and did an amazingly good job of making victims and cases go away. 

Vatican is a 'country', its assets held by its own basically unregulated bank with no transparency which asserts sovereign immunity (it alone didn't return looted Nazi gold.)  VaticanBank's massive untaxable real estate assets worldwide cannot be attached for these claims while Ireland's locally-owned Catholic Churches are losing local property and are facing bankruptcy.

Mother Church offers prayers for the victims as it shuffles the perpetrators and says 'it didn't know.'  Vatican sovereign immunity prevents its bank from being sued (VaticanBank actually holds title), and diplomatic immunity prevents their 'officials' from being sued and thus their property being attached. 


Ireland can, however, make Vatican ante up or fold...

The way to eliminate a snake is to destroy its safe hiding places and cut off its food supply.  Vatican's property provides a 'safe hiding place,' and its food chain is the local presence that raises money, can't be attached and Irish Catholic personnel toeing the party line.

It's time to change the laws so that 'churches' or 'religions' don't have a special status.  Governments could require all real property to be taxed (without excepting religious property), all subject to forfeiture/sale for nonpayment.  Moreover, all property owners could be required to either waive immunity with regard to suits regarding property.  Property owners should be treated like corporations; they must provide a local agent who could be served in their name and who carries a bond equal to the value of the property.  In the event the bondholder loses, the bond is forfeited; but to maintain ownership the bond must be replaced.  If someone sued Vatican, Vatican would then either defend or forfeit the bond, and would have to put another bond in place.

If Vatican does not wish their property to be taxed or their bond forfeited by not defending a suit, they can simply sell the property.  This would end Vatican's Irish presence aside from local officials and property (which can be sued and levied upon.)   That won't happen because Vatican (a country with a very large unreachable bank and huge untaxed assets) needs local fund raising and thus strong control over the Irish Catholic Churches. 

The most valuable asset of Vatican is the illusion that it is a 'Religion.'