Our police have issued an international arrest warrant for a priest who is believed to have been involved in abuse of boys in a West London school, and who was supposed to be reporting regularly to a police station, but has ceased to do so and is not believed to be in the country any more. He is believed to have gone to Rome. If Rome, presumably the Italian police would deal with the matter, but I suspect the word Rome is meant to mean the Vatican, which would raise interesting questions.

Although the Vatican did establish an inquiry into the matter, if they are allowing a Rome monastery to offer asylum in the case, it doesn't convince that their heart is in correcting this issue.

Penny