text: Regarding:"He told the hearing that the Catholic Church was "a most unusual and mysterious combination of the decentralized and the centralized" when it came to governance."
  - In practice this means that a canon lawyer was sent to the United Nations and the World Court to remind these august bodies and the convened nations that the international treaties signed by the Vatican City State (VCS) apply only to the VCS.
  - There are no treaties that can be used to reign in or otherwise discipline the Holy See as it is not a signatory of these treaties.
  - However, an area that needs looking into is the fact that the Holy See resides in the VCS and thus nations, especially those that have representation with the Holy See can insist that the Holy See align itself to treaties, especially ones that apply to families or children, or the VCS would face sanctions ranging from non-recognition of Vatican's passports to the a seizure of its information and communication apparatuses.