Diplomatic immunity: What would Jesus think?

WELL, they would say that, wouldn’t they?

Can anyone really claim to be surprised by the Vatican’s rejection of the Taoiseach’s stringent and well-founded criticisms voiced in the Dáil during the debate on the Cloyne report on 20 July?

Did anybody in this country really expect that there would be some form of admission of corporate responsibility by the Vatican for the horrors exposed, not just in the Cloyne report, but in the Ferns (October 2005), Ryan (May 2009) and Murphy (November 2009) reports?