Judge Rules Vatican Enjoys Foreign Immune Protections in Kentucky Lawsuit

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBXSVS3JEE.html

VATICAN CITY (AP) - A federal judge in Kentucky has ruled that the Holy See is a foreign state that enjoys certain immunity protections, placing restrictions on a lawsuit by three men who allege the Vatican covered up the sexual abuse of children by priests.

According to a ruling obtained Friday by The Associated Press, Judge John G. Heyburn II of the U.S. District Court in Louisville rejected the victims' argument that the Holy See is an international religious organization and ruled that it is a foreign state subject to provisions of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

The ruling is significant because it says that the Holy See's religious activity is irrelevant to the immunity protections it enjoys as a foreign state. It could have implications for other cases in which the Holy See is named as a defendant in the clerical sexual abuse scandal.

The 1976 act restricts when foreign states can be sued in American courts, although it provides exceptions, such as when the states engage in commercial or certain harmful activities in the United States.

[patdem]

1. Does that make the Catholic Church a foreign entity?

Anyone who is of the Catholic Church and is political must register as a foreign national??? Just askin?

[Kagemusha]

3. The Vatican is a foreign government. The church is not 100% Vatican.

It's not that simple.

[moobu2]

4. No, they’re only “a foreign entity"/Government

when they’re being sued for covering up sexual abuse of minors, hiding war criminals, theft and complicacy in genocide. Other than that they’re a religion and can subvert our political system by refusing to give communion to politicians who vote the way the Vatican doesn’t want them too etc….It’s very complicated.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. was it gerald ford who did that or Ronnie ray gun?

If we recognize it as a separate nation, that is correct.

Should not that apply to
hmmmmm

Iraq?


So, just how much oil does the Vatican have?
And does RICO apply to a gang that has sexually abused tens of thousands of children, then hidden the data from other governments?
I wonder what the Genevas say about that?