Kevin Annett, leader of the International Tribunal Against Crimes of Church & State is pictured above.
The biggest crisis to hit Catholicism since the Reformation keeps spiraling out of control for the Vatican.
Domestic
commentators describe events in Rome as constituting the worst political
problem for an Italian government in decades, as President Napolitano is being
pressured by the Vatican and his Lateran Treaty obligations to aid Pope
Benedict evade and obstruct justice.
The entire matter
of the Pope's situation and Italian liability for criminal behavior was
apparently high on the agenda of Napolitano's recent discussions with US
President Barack Obama in Washington, DC.
Meanwhile,
keeping an accused Joseph Ratzinger under their protection in defiance of
international law, the Vatican's Secretariat of State under Cardinal Bertone is
delaying their response to a Diplomatic communique from a European government
notifying Rome of impending legal action against Ratzinger.
According to a
source who is a liaison with the said government, no official reply has been
issued by Bertone's office to the February 4 communique, nor is the Secretariat
even engaged in back-channel communications on the matter.
"They are
pretending the Diplomatic Note never arrived, and that business is normal
leading up to their Conclave to choose their next pope. They must maintain an
appearance of stability right now, we are assuming" said the liaison
source.
Meanwhile, the church-dominated
Italian media has launched a vilifying and uninformed assault on the ITCCS and
Kevin Annett without having contacted or interviewed Annett or ITCCS officers.
Nevertheless,
ITCCS website traffic has exceeded 300,000 "hits" in the past several
days, and legal and political help is pouring in to the Tribunal, especially
from Italy and the United States.
The ITCCS is
planning public occupations of Catholic churches commencing Sunday, March 24,
2013. It will issue an update and plan of action tomorrow, on this website.
Issued by ITCCS Central – Brussels
18 February, 2013
18 February, 2013
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