UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
At what moment will Pope Benedict XVI lose his infallibility and his soverign immunity? Apparently, on February 28 when he formally resigns. Perhaps, the historically unsupportable claims of papal infallibility will cease soon. As to the lack of legal immunity, since Joseph Ratzinger can be sued and prosecuted after February 28, he apparently will follow Cardinal Law’s lead and stay safely on papal grounds evading subpoenas.
Ratzinger’s new Vatican quarters have been undergoing renovation apparently as his retirement base reportedly since the last nuns were removed in November. The editor of the forthcoming complete edition of his works, Archbishop Mueller, is now on site as chief Inquisitor at the CDF. Cardinal Law’s ex-aide is in as chief prosecutor. His handsome aide was just made a Bishop. The Pope is ready. He can now focus on his last written effort to push his narrow views, on his music and on dealing with prosecutors’ requests. He has Cardinal Sodano and their subservient Cardinals on site to continue to cover-up the sex abuse and financial scandals until they install their hand-picked and subservient successor, God forbid. Why didn’t Ratzinger think of this five years ago?
If you took a time capsule ride back to 1787 Versailles, you would be struck by the ruthless and unaccountable style of the French King. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic James Madison was drafting a Constitution that prohibited kings and provided for accountable and term-limited rulers who could be impeached for cause by elected representatives. By 1918, the idea of accountability had swept through Europe, except in Vatican City where an absolute monarchy still is the rule with a self perpetuating papal clique that can lock up a butler in a closet-sized room for months without real due process. Unless the imperial coercive structure is changed back to the Catholic consensual structure Jesus and his first disciples left behind, it matters little who is Pope. The insightful butler clearly understood this. …
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