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The Vatican
As far as the Vatican is concerned, I will be the first to admit that I am no expert. My purpose here is to show where all of this is coming from.
This website should NEVER be construed to mean that I believe that the people of the Catholic church are bad or evil, because I have many wonderful friends who are catholic, and I consider them to be the salt of the earth. It is like any other group of people, whether they are jews,or catholic, or black, or white, there are good people and bad people among them.
I know that there are good and bad people who are catholics, and there are good catholic bishops, and bad catholic bishops, and good catholic cardinals, and bad catholic cardinals. I can only speak for the people who I know personally therefore, I cannot say who is good or who is bad, other than to say that I know many of them who are among the finest people I know.
In fact, much of the information that I have provided here was provided by a good friend of mine who also happens to have been raised catholic, and yet he is the first to bring up many of the issues presented about the Vatican. I would be extremely disappointed if anyone was to use the information presented in this website as justification to discriminate against, or cause injury in any way, to anyone who is catholic, no matter what their position in the catholic church is. If there is evidence of criminal activity, then they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but otherwise, they have the same rights we all have, and those rights should be protected as vigorously as those rights are protected for the rest of us.
As far as the Vatican itself is concerned, it is clear that Private International Law, and Law Merchant, and Admiralty Maritime Law, are different names for Canon Law, which comes from the Vatican. It is also clear that the Vatican is responsible for some of the worst attrocities in history, but are they still up to that kind of activity? Is it deliberate and calculated, or just the actions of somebody that may have been over zealous? I don't know. It would seem to me that if they were sorry for some of their actions in history, that they would try to provide some compensation to the descendants of their victims, or at least make an apology. Maybe they have. I don't know. I leave it up to the reader to come to their own conclusions.
