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This story begins In the Dominican Republic where the Nuncio to Pope Francis was charged with sexually abusing young boys, paying for sexual favors and in one case paying for medicine for a very ill child who was too poor to afford the medicine - in exchange for sexual favors. The Nuncio's assistant also admitted procuring children for the Nuncio when he asked him to and later wrote a letter to the Nuncio stating he was seeking God's forgiveness for having helped him by finding the boys.
The crimes happened in the Dominican Republic but the Vatican said Pope Francis's Nuncio had immunity as he was a personal ambassador to the Pope personally. The Vatican demanded that their own court hear the case and decide the verdict and outcome of this case concerning their own Ambassador and the charges against him. Somehow the Vatican was able to bring the Nuncio back to Vatican City and told the officials in DR that he was under house arrest until the trial.
Now the news has broken that the Ambassador to Pope Francis was seen by eye witnesses walking freely on the streets recently and didn't appear to be under house arrest at all.
According to Scripture, Christians are to abide by the laws of the land. Those who break the law must be tried in the land in which they committed the crime just as non Christians must before a secular court. There is no difference. The Apostle Paul was brought before a secular court to stand trial. Not a religious one. (I had no idea such a thing existed as scripture does not support any such idea) Peter and Silas were jailed with those who were not Christians. They were kept in an ordinary jail in the city - was where they were kept.
As the crimes against these young boys happened in the Dominican Republic the people are demanding that the Nuncio stand trial there. I was not aware that the Vatican had their own court room, judges, and jails. I am wondering who would the judge be? The Pope? This is the Nuncio he appointed. Isn't that a conflict of interests and furthermore isn't the Vatican acting as its own court, judge and jury over its own ambassador a conflict of interests? I don't understand how this could happen. What would have happened if Warren Jeff's had been tried by His own Mormon Church instead of a court of law? What would have happened if the man who blew up abortion clinics would have stood trial in his own church instead of a court of law? Why is there an exception being made for the Vatican?
Vatican indicts its former Dominican ambassador - CBS News
The Holy See recalled Wesolowski in 2013 after rumors surfaced in Santo Domingo that he allegedly paid shoeshine boys to masturbate. Wesolowski has since been defrocked and placed under modified house arrest inside Vatican City pending a decision by the Vatican criminal court on whether to indict him.That decision came June 6, when the Vatican prosecutor asked the head of the Vatican City State tribunal to indict him - a decision that was announced Monday.
The case has been highly sensitive, given that the Polish-born Wesolowski was an ambassador of the Holy See - a direct representative of the pope and not just one of the world's 440,000 priests. Continue reading on link above
Why Is Pope Francis Protecting a High-Ranking Pedophile - ICTMN.com
The Papal Nuncio to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, came to the attention of prosecutors when Nuria Piera, General Director ofCadena de Noticias(CDN), a television station owned by the principal newspaper in Santo Domingo,El Caribe,sent a camera crew to chase down rumors that the nuncio had been luring boys to the beach house (a perk of his office) to engage in sex for money. According toThe New York Times, Wesolowski caught the reporters following him and quit cruising for boys on the beach. Instead, he sent a Church deacon, Francisco Reyes, to pander for His Excellency.
(A Papal Nuncio does not represent the city-state of Vatican City. He [always “he”] represents the Holy See, and its personification, the Pope. Each nuncio is personally selected by the Pope and, in Catholic countries, the nuncio is senior in diplomatic protocol to secular ambassadors. Even in non-Catholic countries, the nuncio has all the privileges and immunities of other ambassadors because the Holy See is a signatory to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.)
The crimes happened in the Dominican Republic but the Vatican said Pope Francis's Nuncio had immunity as he was a personal ambassador to the Pope personally. The Vatican demanded that their own court hear the case and decide the verdict and outcome of this case concerning their own Ambassador and the charges against him. Somehow the Vatican was able to bring the Nuncio back to Vatican City and told the officials in DR that he was under house arrest until the trial.
Now the news has broken that the Ambassador to Pope Francis was seen by eye witnesses walking freely on the streets recently and didn't appear to be under house arrest at all.
According to Scripture, Christians are to abide by the laws of the land. Those who break the law must be tried in the land in which they committed the crime just as non Christians must before a secular court. There is no difference. The Apostle Paul was brought before a secular court to stand trial. Not a religious one. (I had no idea such a thing existed as scripture does not support any such idea) Peter and Silas were jailed with those who were not Christians. They were kept in an ordinary jail in the city - was where they were kept.
As the crimes against these young boys happened in the Dominican Republic the people are demanding that the Nuncio stand trial there. I was not aware that the Vatican had their own court room, judges, and jails. I am wondering who would the judge be? The Pope? This is the Nuncio he appointed. Isn't that a conflict of interests and furthermore isn't the Vatican acting as its own court, judge and jury over its own ambassador a conflict of interests? I don't understand how this could happen. What would have happened if Warren Jeff's had been tried by His own Mormon Church instead of a court of law? What would have happened if the man who blew up abortion clinics would have stood trial in his own church instead of a court of law? Why is there an exception being made for the Vatican?
Vatican indicts its former Dominican ambassador - CBS News
The Holy See recalled Wesolowski in 2013 after rumors surfaced in Santo Domingo that he allegedly paid shoeshine boys to masturbate. Wesolowski has since been defrocked and placed under modified house arrest inside Vatican City pending a decision by the Vatican criminal court on whether to indict him.That decision came June 6, when the Vatican prosecutor asked the head of the Vatican City State tribunal to indict him - a decision that was announced Monday.
The case has been highly sensitive, given that the Polish-born Wesolowski was an ambassador of the Holy See - a direct representative of the pope and not just one of the world's 440,000 priests. Continue reading on link above
Why Is Pope Francis Protecting a High-Ranking Pedophile - ICTMN.com
The Papal Nuncio to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, came to the attention of prosecutors when Nuria Piera, General Director ofCadena de Noticias(CDN), a television station owned by the principal newspaper in Santo Domingo,El Caribe,sent a camera crew to chase down rumors that the nuncio had been luring boys to the beach house (a perk of his office) to engage in sex for money. According toThe New York Times, Wesolowski caught the reporters following him and quit cruising for boys on the beach. Instead, he sent a Church deacon, Francisco Reyes, to pander for His Excellency.
(A Papal Nuncio does not represent the city-state of Vatican City. He [always “he”] represents the Holy See, and its personification, the Pope. Each nuncio is personally selected by the Pope and, in Catholic countries, the nuncio is senior in diplomatic protocol to secular ambassadors. Even in non-Catholic countries, the nuncio has all the privileges and immunities of other ambassadors because the Holy See is a signatory to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.)
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