I earnestly hope Milone releases all the dirt he has on every crooked, self-aggrandizing so-&-so in the Vatican. The rot is deep & we need a holy cleansing fire to burn it out. Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
Perhaps Milone should consider sending an email to the new dedicated Vatican email address to report corruption?
Jokes aside, I do have an actual question.
Does Milone have the option to bring suit against other organizations/people? I suppose that would be a mutually exclusive option with the appeals process, as to sue some other organization on the grounds would be a tacit acknowledgment of the decision that the Secretariat of State is not responsible?
Is there some obscure rule in the Vatican legal code that mandates that for every (mostly) sensible ruling the courts make, they have to balance it out with a travesty of justice as an elaborate reminder of the consequences of living in a fallen world and that true justice is reserved only for God?
Do Vatican courts have some sort of "loser pays" rule, as England does, mandating that the losing party pays the legal expenses of the prevailing party? In the United States, a plaintiff would only be required to pay such costs if the lawsuit is frivolous.
It’s a fairly common rule. We have a similar one in Australia and it works pretty well to make you think twice before suing someone, and to make ambulance-chasers a little more circumspect about the cases they take.
The downside is that many poor people who genuinely do have a case, can’t afford the risk of losing and there’s not much legal aid for civil law, unlike criminal law.
This is absurd. If the suit was dismissed on an 'in form' basis, can they sue the gendarmerie this time? Are not the gendarmerie subject to the Secretary of State? Regardless of everything, it might be good that the Holy See is experiencing a financial crisis. The Holy See's finances must be decentralized; and relying on direct funding from overseas bodies should accelerate and enshrine as the law - just like the baldacchino, which is currently under maintenance through direct donations from the Order of Columbus, and the Nativity Scene, which is annually donated by Italian dioceses, everything in the Vatican must be monitored in the same fashion. The solution for the Holy See's finances is literally to outsource them.
Sounds like the Vatican’s courts have a lot in common with the DC courts. 😠
"forced singing of the letters of resignation"
While it is amusing to imagine a person setting their resignation to a Gregorian chant tone, I suspect a typo.
> Pannico’s estate was ordered to pay 64,140 euros in costs.
Someone should write a tragic opera about Vatican finances.
I earnestly hope Milone releases all the dirt he has on every crooked, self-aggrandizing so-&-so in the Vatican. The rot is deep & we need a holy cleansing fire to burn it out. Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
Ed, any chance you can get an interview with Signore Milone in a hotel bar somewhere?
Perhaps Milone should consider sending an email to the new dedicated Vatican email address to report corruption?
Jokes aside, I do have an actual question.
Does Milone have the option to bring suit against other organizations/people? I suppose that would be a mutually exclusive option with the appeals process, as to sue some other organization on the grounds would be a tacit acknowledgment of the decision that the Secretariat of State is not responsible?
Is there some obscure rule in the Vatican legal code that mandates that for every (mostly) sensible ruling the courts make, they have to balance it out with a travesty of justice as an elaborate reminder of the consequences of living in a fallen world and that true justice is reserved only for God?
Do Vatican courts have some sort of "loser pays" rule, as England does, mandating that the losing party pays the legal expenses of the prevailing party? In the United States, a plaintiff would only be required to pay such costs if the lawsuit is frivolous.
It’s a fairly common rule. We have a similar one in Australia and it works pretty well to make you think twice before suing someone, and to make ambulance-chasers a little more circumspect about the cases they take.
The downside is that many poor people who genuinely do have a case, can’t afford the risk of losing and there’s not much legal aid for civil law, unlike criminal law.
Silence from the press... Was this what the pope was thanking them for?
This is absurd. If the suit was dismissed on an 'in form' basis, can they sue the gendarmerie this time? Are not the gendarmerie subject to the Secretary of State? Regardless of everything, it might be good that the Holy See is experiencing a financial crisis. The Holy See's finances must be decentralized; and relying on direct funding from overseas bodies should accelerate and enshrine as the law - just like the baldacchino, which is currently under maintenance through direct donations from the Order of Columbus, and the Nativity Scene, which is annually donated by Italian dioceses, everything in the Vatican must be monitored in the same fashion. The solution for the Holy See's finances is literally to outsource them.