text: It is a matter of settled American law that the Catholic Church is not a foreign country.
  
  I am certain you are aware of that, as you aware that legal attempts to link dioceses, sue the Church in another country, or otherwise treat these cases as a conspiracy have universally failed.
  
  That you wish it were so, or hope that they would jail bishops, and so on is something that I would not hold onto were my goal to live my life.
  
  Nor would I target the innocent in an attempt to assuage my unresolved anger.