Regarding: "This is especially true in the current case, where the Vatican has invoked diplomatic immunity so that the official will be tried under Vatican law rather than U.S. laws. "
- In as much as these nunciature officials are from the Holy See and not the Vatican City State it seems obvious that the appropriate US law officials should have arrested the clerical miscreant in this country and held him for trial.
- The days of the Vatican City State saying that international agreements apply only to the Vatican City State and not to the Holy See / Church are long past.
- If the Vatican City State wants its nuncios to have diplomatic protection then these nuncios need to clearly represent a state and not a church.
- Indeed the US State Department needs to insist that if the nuncio and staff are from the Holy See, then they will be treated as representatives of a non-government sponsored international entity and not as representatives of a nation like the Vatican City State.