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Father Gordon J. MacRae has served nearly 17 years of a prison sentence of 33½ to 67 years. Convicted of sex offenses, he has steadfastly maintained his innocence, even rejecting plea bargains that would have freed him years ago.

In 2005, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The Wall Street Journal published an account of the travesty of justice by which Father Gordon MacRae was convicted (see “A Priest’s Story”). It is a story, described by the late Father Richard John Neuhaus in First Things magazine, of “a Church and a justice system that seem indifferent to justice.” Fr. Neuhaus, along with the late Cardinal Avery Dulles, encouraged Father MacRae to write. In 2005, Cardinal Dulles asked him to contribute “a new chapter to the volume of Christian literature from believers who were unjustly imprisoned.”

Fr. MacRae’s writings from prison have appeared in First Things, Catalyst, The Catholic Response, online at PriestsinCrisis.com and numerous Catholic blogs, and they are now collected at his blog These Stone Walls. (Fr. MacRae has no access to electronic communication and has never seen his own blog. He communicates online through others who post his writings and deliver comments to him though mail or by telephone.)

States parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

“On 21 January 2009, the Palestinian National Authority formally accepted the jurisdiction of the Court.[7] On 3 April 2012, the ICC Prosecutor declared himself unable to determine that Palestine is a “state” for the purposes of the Rome Statute and referred such decision to the United Nations.[8] On 29 November 2012, the United Nations General Assembly voted in favour of recognising Palestine as a non-member observer state.[9]”

“The Court can automatically exercise jurisdiction over crimes committed on the territory of a State Party or by a national of a State Party. States parties must co-operate with the Court, including surrendering suspects when requested to do so by the Court.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_Parties_to_the_Rome_Statute_of_the_International_Criminal_Court

Here’s the rub: The Holy See is a UN non-member observer state, just like Palestine. But has it agreed to the “Rome Statue”?

ICC - Rome Statue - Article 7 “Crimes Against Humanity”
http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/rdonlyres/ADD16852-AEE9-4757-ABE7-9CDC7CF02886/283503/RomeStatutEng1.pdf

MacRae Still Playing the “Spider Game”
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/resources/resource-files/reports/ManchesterReport10MacRae.pdf

SNAP Breathes, Pope Prepares His Vatican State Defenses
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3041843/posts?page=12#12