By Mike Corder and Rachel Zoll
Taiwan News
September 13, 2011
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1706046
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| Pope Benedict XVI, flanked by bishop Pietro Marini, Master of Liturgical Celebration walks at the end of a Holy Mass in Ancona' s shipyard, on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI prayed for the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and called on world leaders and others to resist what he calls the |
The Vatican's lawyer says an attempt by clergy sex abuse victims to bring a case against the pope and top Vatican officials to the International Criminal Court is a "ludicrous" publicity stunt.
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| Members of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), from left: Bert Smeets, Phil Saviano, Rita Milla, Megan Peterson, Pam Spees, Barbara Blaine, Winfried Fesselmann, Emmanuel Henckens and Peter Isely attend a press conference in Voorburg, near The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. Clergy sex abuse victims upset that no high-ranking Roman Catholic leaders have been prosecuted for sheltering guilty priests brought their claims to the International Criminal Court, seeking an investigation of the pope and top Vatican cardinals for possible crimes against humanity. The Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based nonprofit legal group, requested the inquiry on behalf of the SNAP, arguing that the global church has maintained a |
Jeffrey Lena, who represents the Vatican in U.S. sex abuse cases, says the request for the Hague tribunal to launch an investigation into possible crimes against humanity is a "misuse of international judicial processes."
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| Members of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), from left: Barbara Blaine, Winfried Fesselmann, Emmanuel Henckens and Peter Isely attend a press conference in Voorburg, near The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. Clergy sex abuse victims upset that no high-ranking Roman Catholic leaders have been prosecuted for sheltering guilty priests brought their claims to the International Criminal Court, seeking an investigation of the pope and top Vatican cardinals for possible crimes against humanity. The Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based nonprofit legal group, requested the inquiry on behalf of the SNAP, arguing that the global church has maintained a |
The Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based nonprofit legal group, requested the inquiry Tuesday on behalf of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, arguing that the global church has maintained a "long-standing and pervasive system of sexual violence" despite promises to swiftly oust predators.
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