UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
The UK’s Home Secretary, Teresa May, has finally acted to establish an independent child sex abuse commission with power to compel testimony, as reported here,
[Mirror]
and here:
[BBC News]
Will it call ex-Pope Benedict to testify, as it appears it should, and as it can, in my view as an experienced international lawyer? Please see my “Pope Continues Priest Child Abuse Cover-up Policy” at:
Teresa May’s boss, UK Prime Minister David Cameron, recently on US CBS’ “Face the Nation” challenged the pope on the pope’s position that would limit free speech about religious matters. Has the English common law finally caught up to the Vatican? Stay tuned, please!
Again, it took Teresa May, a brave woman, to act, following the bold example of Julia Gillard (also UK born), who set up the outstanding and ongoing Australian Royal Commission.
Will Hillary Clinton, who studied the common law at Yale and worked on the Watergate Commission that transparently and independently investigated US President Nixon’s criminal cover-up conspiracy, be next to call for a national investigation commission in the USA. President Obama seems to lack the fortitude to do so. Is this a women’s thing only? Why is Michelle Obama. a Harvard lawyer, so silent here?
Will UK abuse survivor and advocate, Peter Saunders, who demanded this action in the UK, this weekend (as he meets with the long stalled first full meeting of the pope’s abuse commission), now demand that the pope add to his commission some experienced, independent and proven members, like Fr. Thomas Doyle, Illinois Justice Anne Burke and former Irish President, Mary McAleese? If not, why not?
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