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Saturday, 6th April 2024: Weekly Wrap Up with Macca and Paul

Macca and Paul host this week’s show as they discuss the news that’s happening in the LGBTIQA+ community and so much more.

A former Seven producer has sworn an affidavit saying text messages and receipts in his possession show tens of thousands of dollars was billed to the network while the Spotlight program was courting Bruce Lehrmann for an exclusive television interview.

The producer, Taylor Auerbach, will give evidence about the expenses on Thursday in a sensational development in the defamation trial which has been reopened after an application by Ten was accepted by the federal court.

The former Seven employee provided Ten, which is defending a defamation suit brought by Lehrmann, with a string of photographs and text messages allegedly confirming receipts incurred by himself or Seven directly for the benefit of Lehrmann.

Macca and Paul also discussed the latest news regarding Pope Francis, seeks immunity in Paedophile Priest case in Australia.

In a Victorian case involving two Aboriginal men who were allegedly abused by a priest named Glennon between 1983 and 1990, questions have been raised about the role of the Pope and the Vatican in addressing clerical abuse. Former Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart testified at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse about the delays in defrocking Glennon, with Archbishop George Pell finally convincing Pope John Paul II to issue a decree stripping Glennon of his status as an ordained priest in 1999. The lawyer for the two men, Angela Sdrinis, believes that Pope Francis should be held accountable for John Paul II’s inaction during that time.

Dr. John Morss, an international law expert from Deakin and La Trobe University, has stated that he believes the Pope is not the head of a foreign state in relation to Australia, despite the Vatican’s claims of statehood. This view has not been tested in court before, and Morss believes that Australia would be taking a new approach if they were to challenge the Vatican’s immunity based on its statehood status. Barrister Geoffrey Robertson, author of The Case Against the Pope, has also raised questions about the Vatican’s statehood status, calling it an anomaly and pointing out that it lacks many requirements of a traditional state.

https://globeecho.com/pope-requests-immunity-in-australian-court-in-relation-to-notorious-paedophile-priest/