US court won't review Vatican Bank Holocaust suit

[emad]

17 Jan 2006 15:23:52 GMT

Source: Reuters

By James Vicini

WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Holocaust survivors on Tuesday to proceed with a lawsuit claiming that the Vatican Bank and a Franciscan religious order profited from property stolen by Croatia's pro-Nazi World War Two government.

The justices declined to review a ruling by a U.S. appeals court that reinstated the suit, which claimed the Order of Friars Minor conspired with the Vatican Bank to facilitate the transfer of gold and other looted valuable assets.

The Holocaust survivors filed the lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco in 1999 accusing the defendants of receiving property stolen from victims of Croatia's brutal Ustasha regime from 1941 to 1945. As many as 700,000 people, mostly Serbs, were killed at death camps run by the regime.

The lawsuit claimed that the stolen property was used after the war to help Nazi war criminals escape from Europe to South America. The class-action lawsuit seeks compensation for the monetary losses suffered by Holocaust survivors.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N09183396.htm

[PDJane]

1. um.

Too bad no-one will sue the Bushes..........

[zann725]

2. Exactly! This is why "stacked" courts are so important to this Admin.

If they were EVER held accountable for even a fracton of their crimes against humanity...

[Name removed]

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[Xithras]

4. How about a link that's not from a Catholic hate site?

I went to the front page of that site, and if it's any indication of the historical objectiveness and accuracy of your post, then his story isn't very believable. The entire crux of that site seems to be that all of the worlds good springs from nice, white English Protestants, while all of the evil comes from Rome and those evil Catholics. Even Columbus' discovery of America was apparently a great Catholic conspiracy :eyes:

[Ian David]

5. Thanks for the heads-up. I should have checked the site more closely

I'll ask the mods to self-delete me.

[emad]

6. Supreme Court won't toss Vatican Bank case

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SNIP:

"Judicial resolution of plaintiff's claims would cause potential embarrassment because it would be inconsistent with the executive branch's consistent policy to address claims arising out of World War II through diplomacy rather than litigation," they told justices.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1154AP_Scotus_Vatican_Bank.html