A survivor of sexual abuse is suing the Vatican, and two courts in the U.S. are considering hearing the case.
“I was not truly mad at the right person,” he says. “I kept going up a ladder, and I was looking at cardinals and even the Pope knew, you know, that this was this bad. That’s what truly upset me.”
Now Turner is in court again — suing the Vatican.— Abuse Victims Seek Court Date
Apparently, it’s remarkable that the Vatican might be held to account for its systemic concealment of sexual abusers. Which rather highlights the utter stupidity of giving an already large and powerful religion its own country to play with. Let’s start with this fucked up, patriarchal institution with enormous wealth, resources, and devotees so brainwashed so as to make most generals salivate. Then, let’s give it sovereign immunity and treat it as an equal amongst nations. That’s going to work great.
It’s almost enough to make you think that all the Zionist conspiracy theories floating around are ultimately encouraged by the Church, to keep people from delving too deeply into what, exactly, all those funny old men in point hats are doing.
When I learned the Vatican had immunity in most cases, the first thing that popped into my head is “WTF?”. We sue corporations that have bigger armies, landmasses, and employees, all the time, so why not the Vatican? Jurisdiction seems relatively easy to establish; they’re in the US all the goddamned time, on tax-free property.
Just doesn’t seem to make any sense.