AUSTRALIA should renounce the Vatican’s diplomatic status, close its
embassy to the Holy See and make senior Catholic clergy accountable to
the Australian criminal justice system, say supporters of a tougher
response to the church after it refused to comply with requests from the
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Hunter-based One Nation Senator Brian Burston is planning a private member’s bill to withdraw diplomatic recognition granted the Vatican in 1973, after public controversy about Cardinal George Pell’s failure to return to Australia to give evidence at the royal commission, and the Vatican’s refusal to provide the commission with files of Australian child sex offender priests held by the Holy See.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4477315/calls-for-vatican-diplomatic-recognition-to-end/
Hunter-based One Nation Senator Brian Burston is planning a private member’s bill to withdraw diplomatic recognition granted the Vatican in 1973, after public controversy about Cardinal George Pell’s failure to return to Australia to give evidence at the royal commission, and the Vatican’s refusal to provide the commission with files of Australian child sex offender priests held by the Holy See.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4477315/calls-for-vatican-diplomatic-recognition-to-end/