Monday, April 5, 2010

Is The Pope Catholic?

And other compelling questions o' teh day. For instance, who created the Vatican "state."
Ans.: Benito Mussolini
Q: How legitimate is the Pope's claimed immunity from prosecution as a head of state?
A.: Not very bloody likely sweet cheeks.

Nugget:
If acts of sexual abuse by priests are not isolated or sporadic events but part of a wide practice both known to and unpunished by their de facto authority—i.e. the Catholic Church—then under the command responsibility principle of international law (laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court) the commander can be held criminally liable. He falls within the temporal jurisdiction of the ICC so long as that abusive practice and the policy to tolerate it continued after July 2002, when the court was established.

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