Vatican served with court papers from SNAP for Wisconsin abuse case

The Vatican's U.S.-based attorney, Jeffrey Lena, said Tuesday that he still has to evaluate the papers to determine whether they meet the requirements imposed by U.S. law.

"It's premature to comment what will happen next in the case," he said.

The lawsuit was filed nearly a year ago in federal court on behalf of Terry Kohut, now of Chicago. It claims Pope Benedict XVI and two other top Vatican officials knew about allegations of sexual abuse at St. John's School for the Deaf outside Milwaukee and called off internal punishment of the accused priest, the Rev. Lawrence Murphy.

In October a U.S. federal judge asked the Vatican to cooperate in the serving of court papers. The Vatican was not obliged to comply with the request.

In January, Anderson said representatives of his office served the lawsuit at the Vatican's office of the Assessor for General Affairs, but that it was returned via Federal Express. At the time, the Vatican's lawyer, Lena, said the lawsuit should have been served through diplomatic channels as would be done with any foreign state.

JSOnline

A few notes.  You never know if this could get heard(I was first going to say 0% chance, but... there is a large number of bad judges where anything is possible).  Anderson has his judges I'm sure, so he'll know who he could use to push this through.  Any trial would obviously exonerate Pope Benedict XVI, but there might be some bad things coming out regarding Pope John Paul II.  They are assuming there is no statute of limitations in this case(since there is no suit filed against Weakland and Sklba).  Anderson has placed his greatest efforts on removing the statute of limitations against the Catholic Church.  He has been working with Julie Lassa, D, WI to make this a reality here in Wisconsin.  Hey maybe he could file suit for the burning of Joan of Arc! 

HT V