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On 6/15/2012 1:42 PM, Kent Wills wrote:



http://www.biblelight.net/un-vatican.htm

Below is the resolution before the U.S. Senate to defend the Vatican's 
special diplomatic status at the United Nations.  A similar resolution 
H.CON.RES.253.IH is before the House of Representatives.

Whereas the Holy See is the governing authority of the sovereign State 
of Vatican City;

Whereas the Holy See has an internationally recognized legal 
personality, which allows it to enter into treaties as the juridical 
equal of a state and to send and receive diplomatic representatives;

Whereas the diplomatic history of the Holy See began over 1,600 years 
ago, during the 4th century A.D., and the Holy See currently has formal 
diplomatic relations with 169 nations, including the United States, and 
maintains 179 permanent diplomatic missions abroad;

Whereas, although the Holy See was an active participant in a wide range 
of United Nations activities since 1946, and was eligible to become a 
member state of the United Nations, it chose instead to become a 
nonmember state with Permanent Observer status over 36 years ago, in 1964;

Whereas, unlike other geographically small countries such as Monaco, 
Nauru, San Marino, and Liechtenstein, the Holy See does not possess a 
vote in the General Assembly of the United Nations;

Whereas, according to a July 1998 assessment by the United States 
Department of State, `(t)he United States values the Holy See's 
significant contributions to international peace and human rights';

Whereas during the past year, certain organizations that oppose the 
views of the Holy See regarding abortion and the sanctity of human life 
have initiated an organized effort to pressure the United Nations to 
remove the Permanent Observer status of the Holy See; and

Whereas the removal of the Holy See's Permanent Observer status would 
constitute an expulsion of the Holy See from the United Nations as a 
state participant: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That 
Congress

(1) commends the Holy See for its unique contributions to a thoughtful 
and robust dialogue in issues of international concern during its 36 
years as a Permanent Observer at the United Nations;

(2) strongly objects to any effort to expel the Holy See from the United 
Nations as a state participant by removing its status as a nonmember 
state Permanent Observer;

(3) believes that any degradation of the status accorded to the Holy See 
at the United Nations would seriously damage the credibility of the 
United Nations by demonstrating that its rules of participation are 
manipulable for ideological reasons rather than being rooted in neutral 
principles and objective facts of sovereignty; and

(4) contends that any degradation of the status of the Holy See will 
damage relations between the United States and the United Nations.


http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=2910

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/04/01/us-pope-abuse-idUSTRE62U5RF20100401

But the pope is protected by diplomatic immunity because more than 170 
countries, including the United States, have diplomatic relations with 
the Vatican. They recognize it as a sovereign state and the pope as its 
sovereign head.




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