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Case Of The Pope Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse

Name: Case Of The Pope
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Author: Geoffrey Robertson KC

Auteur: Geoffrey Robertson KC

Taal: Engels

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Uitgever: Penguin Books Ltd

Auteur: Geoffrey Robertson KC

Engels
Paperback
9780241953846
08 september 2010
240 pagina's

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Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? This book delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world.

In The Case of the Pope Geoffrey Robertson QC delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world.

Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should he and his seat of power, the Holy See, continue to enjoy an immunity that places them above the law?

Geoffrey Robertson QC, a distinguished human rights lawyer and judge, evinces a deep respect for the good works of Catholics and their church. But, he argues, unless Pope Benedict XVI can divest himself of the beguilements of statehood and devotion to obsolescent canon law, the Vatican will remain a serious enemy to the advance of human rights.

'Robertson is an adept QC and this is a devastating case'
Daily Telegraph

'Combines moral passion with steely forensic precision ... It is one of the most formidable demolition jobs one could imagine on a man who has done more to discredit the cause of religion than Rasputin and Pat Robertson put together'
Terry Eagleton, Guardian

'Forceful, wide-ranging'
The Tablet

'Robertson has not become a successful lawyer by muddling his arguments and distorting his facts ... He writes clearly, at times passionately, as counsel for the prosecution'
John Lloyd, Financial Times

Geoffrey Robertson QC is founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, the largest human rights practice in the UK. In 2008, he was appointed as a distinguished jurist member of the UN Justice Council. His books include Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice, a memoir, The Justice Game and The Tyrannicide Brief, an award winning study of the trial of Charles I.

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 08 september 2010
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required reading for everybody!
- Gibreel
- 30-39 jaar
- 4 november 2010
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Geoffrey Robertson mercylessly dissects

- the Catholic Church's internal "punishment" system for dealing with sex offenders, whereby paedophile priests go largely unpunished, there's no recompensation for their victims, and (through transfer, notably to Africa and South America) offending priests are allowed to continue, the church's reputation being of prime concern
- the Vatican's claim to statehood, based on a shady 1929 deal with Mussolini, when the church acquired "statehood" over the Vatican palace and its gardens, a 0,44 km2 plot of land within the city (and legal system) of Rome
- the Vatican's heavy involvement and influence in today's politics as a result of this "statehood"
- the pope's "head of state" immunity claim, granted by president George W. Bush, putting him outside jurisdiction (after already acquiring papal infallibility in 1870)
- the current pope's misogynistic and obsolete world view
- the current pope's involvement (as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1981 to 2005) in the hushing-up of sexual abuse cases

A most revealing and shocking book.

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