{"id":1042,"date":"2014-05-06T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2014-05-05T23:06:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T04:06:05","slug":"catholic-church-jurisdiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/05\/catholic-church-jurisdiction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Church cares about jurisdiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/f2fe42f46e2776089b5a7ceb2210f742\/tumblr_n54vo04j5O1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a hearing before the UN, the Catholic Church adduced they <a title=\"Vatican Tells U.N. Committee That Abuse Claims Have Dropped\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2014\/05\/05\/309875887\/vatican-tells-u-n-committee-that-abuse-claims-have-dropped\">lack jurisdiction outside the Vat-cave<\/a> walls when it comes to child sex abuse:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">[Archbishop <strong>Silvano<\/strong>] <strong>Tomasi<\/strong> also reiterated that the <strong>Holy See&#8217;s jurisdiction in applying treaties extends only to the Vatican City state<\/strong>, which is the world&#8217;s smallest country, <a href=\"http:\/\/stream.wsj.com\/story\/latest-headlines\/SS-2-63399\/SS-2-524175\/\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reports, with fewer than 900 inhabitants in the heart of Rome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;The Holy See intends to focus exclusively on the Vatican City state,&#8221; the archbishop said. &#8220;It should be stressed, particularly in light of much confusion, that the <strong>Holy See has no jurisdiction &#8230; over every member of the Catholic Church<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Ohh<\/em>, <em>now<\/em> they care about jurisdiction&#8230; because <strong>that haven&#8217;t posed an obstacle when it comes to the Catholic Church trying to infect secular nations&#8217; public policy<\/strong> with their homophobic and collectivist superstition.<\/p>\n<p>And the Church&#8217;s policy of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Francis_Law\">safeguarding pederasts<\/a>, sheltering them in their Roman sty is what I would call <strong>hindering foreign jurisdiction<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a hearing before the UN, the Catholic Church adduced they lack jurisdiction outside the Vat-cave walls when it comes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40,28,32,194,381],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secularism","tag-catholic-church","tag-christianity","tag-double-standards","tag-pederasty","tag-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}