text: "...as moral as the Swill, Germans and French...."
  
  Outside a system of law, there is not much to go on: Bigelow's word against the ghosts of dead Vatican bank employees, whose policy was to destroy bank records every 10 years (until the 1990's). There were no death camps in Vatican City (though thousands of priests were interned in them elsewhere), no executions of civilians at the Vatican as in France and Germany, and no high-powered banks involved in the plunder of European Jews as among the Swiss. So those three countries had reason to cough up restitution funds.  Rome would also say no Christian church suffered more under the Nazis than the CC. 
  
  For the reasons above the traces of any alleged moral obligation are a matter of non-legal conjecture. As a non-European, Pope Francis is more disappointed with the future of Europe -- in parts of Europe -- than he is of its past. This case has expanded beyond its credibility to trust anyone, any source, voice, outside a SYSTEM OF LAW.