US judge asks Vatican to serve court paper to Pope

[kpete]

Source: Associated Press

US judge asks Vatican to serve court paper to Pope

By DINESH RAMDE (AP) – 31 minutes ago

MILWAUKEE — A federal U.S. judge is asking the Vatican to cooperate in serving the Pope and two other top officials with court papers that stem from decades-old allegations of sexual abuse by a priest in Wisconsin.

The request is an incremental — and long shot — step in a lawsuit that accuses the officials of conspiring to keep the allegations against a Milwaukee priest quiet. The Vatican is not obliged to comply with the request.

Under similar circumstances the Vatican has made service difficult, time consuming and expensive by insisting, for example, that documentation be translated into Latin, one of the Vatican's official languages.

Mike Finnegan, the attorney representing the Chicago-based plaintiff, said Friday he's not holding out hope that the Vatican reverses course and begins to cooperate now.

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[Poll_Blind]

1. Yet will Rummy or Bush ever be served with anything but dinner? n/t

PB

[truebrit71]

2. I'll translate it into Latin "Hey Pervius Maximus, you're busted"

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[MsPithy]

12. I can't stop laughing!

Thanks! Haven't had a belly laugh like this in a long time!

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[krispos42]

4. Man, I'd hate to be the guy who gets picked to serve those papers.

"I have to go WHERE? Wearing WHAT? And call him WHAT?"

[Canuckistanian]

5. I guess we can rule out a visit to Wisconsin by this pope

And here's some Latin for him - "Caveat Papem"

[greiner3]

6. I'm no international lawyer;

However, I seem to remember that the pope is the nominal head of the Vatican and therefore the de facto head of state. Diplomatic rules say that you can't do that. I amy be completely wrong but it makes sense to me.

Now for those other two guys...

[felinetta]

7. Long overdue. I'm tired of these criminals hiding behind their silly frocks.

[SpiralHawk]

8. Vatican likely to remain OCCULTED around its sex and bank scandals

I mean the current ones, rather than the Vatican's vaunted legacy of sex and bank scandals.

[independent_voter]

9. "pope on a rope" nt

[fascisthunter]

10. GOOD! No man should be above the Law

especially creeps like him who do have power!

[glinda]

11. but the conservatives are above the Law as "God is on their side".