Huffington Post
Dragana Brown
I met up with Geoffrey Robertson QC, a human rights lawyer, author of numerous books, and one in particular that caught my attention a few years back – The Case of The Pope.
I was curious as to what had inspired him to write it – perhaps a particular story that touched him deeply amongst the myriad of cases of child sexual abuse within Catholic Church?
In fact, the spark came from his friend, Christopher Hitchens, who enquired during the time all the abuse cases were going ballistic, particularly in the US, if Robertson thought there was enough material to amount to a crime against humanity.
Robertson promised to have a look and started to read everything that was happening around the world. He observed how nobody had brought the whole thing together and judged it by legal standards – no one had gotten to the bottom of it. And so one Saturday night spark turned into a roaring fire resulting in the most enlightening book on the modern Catholic Church ever written – EVER.
Robertson’s publisher wanted to call it: ‘The Case Against The Pope’, but he felt that was loaded. This simple statement confirmed an inspiring quality he holds – a total absence of any vendetta or any pre existing animus towards the Catholic Church or any religion indeed. He was matter of fact, simply looking at the evidence about Ratzinger, and the fact that he had not taken ANY action against paedophile priests who have been a public profile nightmare for the Catholic Church.
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