Gagarinille: Tuskin paavia rautoihin saadaan tulevalla Britannian vierailulla – kantti ei riitä. Sen sijaan Vatikaania vastaanhan oikeudenkäyntiprosessi on jo vireillä USAssa kuten kirjoituksessani mainitsin.

Siteeraan vielä jatkoksi tähän Gabriel Wilenskyn minulle toisaalla lähettämän kommentin samasta asiasta:

”Initiating legal proceedings against the Pope is a good thing, and it’s something the world should have done long ago. It’s time to make the clergymen who may be guilty of crimes accountable to Justice. Not heavenly Justice, mind you, but that of the countries they live in and International Law.

Doing things, or not doing them, based on the “good of the universal church” is something the Church has always done. The victims and Justice are never part of the equation. At the height of the German genocidal campaign against the Jews during WWII Cardinal Faulhaber approached his colleague Cardinal Bertram and proposed they compose a manifesto protesting the murder of Jews. Bertram’s response reflected the typical Catholic attitude toward the subject, namely that the Church should limit its influence to matters “of greater importance in the long term.” But an indictment against the Church would have gone much further than an accusation of apathy. It could have included charges of defamation, incitement, complicity in human rights violations, accessory or complicity in crimes against humanity, failure to warn/act, obstruction of justice, profiting from stolen property, abuse of diplomatic privileges, and crimes against humanity.

Gabriel Wilensky, Author/ Six Million Crucifixions: How Christian Teachings About Jews Paved the Road to the Holocaust – http://www.SixMillionCrucifixions.com”