The Case of the Pope

Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse

Penguin (Sep 08, 2010)

1st edition

9780241953846

| Paperback

240 pages | 129 x 198 mm

€ 6.00 | Value: € 11.46

Dewey 262.982

Genre

Religion And Ethics
Secularism
Society

Subject

Law / Trial Practice
Political Science / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights

Plot

THE CASE OF THE POPE 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.