US court ruling in favour of Vatican is no surprise

We should really take a moment to acknowledge the fact that a US federal judge has cleared the Vatican of being “employers” of a certain notorious paedophile priest (Letters, Aug 22).

This does not surprise me.

Some 2,000 years ago the Roman Empire swept over the Western world introducing LEX Romana, ie the tyrannical rules of the empire. Today this system of rule has given us the corporatised nation state, legal system and financing models that we so naively consider the very epitome of civilisation.