Arrest the Pope? Why not?
Last night I watched a panel of journalists on BBC’s Dateline London discuss the Pope’s direct role in the cover up and protection of paedophiles in the Catholic order. I realized with a bit of a shock, that the discussion was not about whether the Pope was responsible or not; with all kinds of evidence pouring out from all corners of the world, and a BBC documentary, the Pope’s explicit role in all this was irrefutable. What the BBC panelists were discussing – was what could now be done with the Pope.
Suddenly one of the panelists said something like, “Well you cannot possibly arrest the Pope!”
And I immediately thought, why not?
If this was any other large, multinational organization with evidence of harboring an international ring of paedophiles, would not the topmost authorities be immediately liable to investigation and police action? If the CEO of that organization had this kind of direct evidential pile-up against him of actually leading the cover-up would he not be put under arrest?
So what excuses the Pope is what I would like to know?