Guzzanti has reported on her own site, however, that her legal advice is that the case simply doesn’t hold up, and thus to proceed would not only make the government subject to international criticism* but would ultimately be doomed to failure.

If this is the case, it’s not Guzzanti that’s being let off the hook, but rather Alfano and the Italian Government.

*The case has already had a high profile, even cropping up on American daytime tv when Whoopi Goldberg mentioned it during a transmission with John McCain.

1)”Nonostante il parere favorevole sulla procedibilità – ha spiegato Alfano – nei confronti di Sabina Guzzanti, ho deciso di non concedere l’autorizzazione ben conoscendo lo spessore e la capacità di perdono del Papa che prevalgono alle offese stesse».

Casey Gwinn, president of the National Family Justice Center Alliance will provide advice and technical guidance. Starting from the original Family Justice Center he helped create in San Diego in 2002, there are now 40 such centers nationwide and another 40 in planning, he said Sunday night — all of them successful only insofar as the various agencies involved commit to cooperating with each other.

“I have no doubt that Montgomery County is going to be one of those model centers and leading centers. It’s a simple concept — co-located services — it’s just hard to do,” he said. “It’s a principle of physics; everything goes from order to disorder over time. You put people together and agencies don’t want to stay together, they tend to drift — ego, personality, turf. And to keep trying, leadership matters.