Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are paying lawyers to investigating the possibility of convicting the pope for crimes against humanity.

Dawkins described the pope as a “leering old villain in a frock … whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence.”

“This former head of the Inquisition should be arrested the moment he dares to set foot outside his tinpot fiefdom of the Vatican, and he should be tried in an appropriate civil – not ecclesiastical – court. That’s what should happen. Sadly, we all know our faith-befuddled governments will be too craven to do it.” Source: Helen Pidd, The Guardian.

I watch with great interest – sadly I suspect Dawkins and Hitchens will fail – they shouldn’t.