ACLU Attack wins Important Ruling against Vatican: They must defend Themselves in Court

The Wall Street Journal has reported that the Vatican has failed in its attempt to maintain its immunity from liability lawsuits. Further court rulings next week will demonstrate how the Vatican will defend itself.

Despite this unprecedented situation, Jeffrey Lena, the Vatican's U.S. lawyer remains confident that he will prove that the Vatican was not responsible for the sex-abuse of its American Bishops.

This is not only a victory from Jeffry Anderson who intends on holding the Vatican accountable for the abuses that took place.

It should be easy to provide examples of how Bishops and Priests have often refused to obey the Vatican in the past. It would be interesting to see if the Vatican will make this point as it is, after all, the truth. Most Catholic institutions, seminaries, hospitals and schools do not follow Vatican directives, especially as regards the hiring of homosexuals in the priesthood, or allowing abortion procedures in their hospitals, for example.

What this case should provide to the public is not so much an insight into how the Vatican was necessarily irresponsible, but it should show how little control the Vatican has over its subordinate. Actually, it might be argued that the Federal and State governments, since they regulate much of Catholic plant, has a great deal more responsibility and liability for what goes on in Catholic institutions in the United States.

In the meantime, this decision will provide Jeff Anderson with a gap to attack the Church following an agenda which has at its heart not so much the redress of victims, but an attack on the moral authority of the Church. It's not justice that they're after, but the undermining of the doctrines of the Church which the modern world finds so offensive: its teaching on homosexuality, abortion, divorce and euthanasia.

Like the Nazis of the 30s, Jeff Anderson and his politically correct ACLU contacts and other associates are bent on driving the Church out of the public sphere and curtailing its influence even more than it already has been curtailed and delimited in this country.

Here's a response on his preparative suit to attack Cardinals Bertone, Sodano and the Holy Father. He may have an opportunity to subpoena the Holy Father yet.