My Daily Domestic Diigolet 04/14/2009

• Vatican blocks Caroline Kennedy appointment as US ambassador – Telegraph
  The Vatican refuses to be influenced by the Kennedy charisma.
  tags: Catholic, abortion, current, events, politics

  • Vatican sources told Il Giornale that their support for abortion disqualified Ms Kennedy and other Roman Catholics President Barack Obama had been seeking to appoint.

  • Mr Obama was reportedly seeking to reward John F Kennedy’s daughter, who publicly gave her support to his election bid.

  • Ms Kennedy, 53, has said that she supports abortion. Raymond Flynn, a former US ambassador to the Vatican, said earlier this week that Ms Kennedy would be a poor choice.

  • “It’s imperative, it’s essential that the person who represents us to the Holy See be a person who has pro-life values. I hope the President doesn’t make that mistake,” he told the Boston Herald. “She said she was pro-choice. I don’t assume she’s going to change that, which is problematic.”
    The White House refused to comment.
• More change we can believe in.
  tags: pope, obama, politics
  • 1. Obama Appoints Pope-Basher to Religious Panel

    President Barack Obama has appointed a gay-rights activist and a critic of Pope Benedict XVI to the federal government’s faith-based initiative board.

    Harry Knox has been appointed to Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Knox is director of the religion and faith program at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a homosexual activist organization.

    He has referred to the Pope as a “discredited leader” and attacked the Catholic Knights of Columbus because of the group’s support of Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that passed last November and defined marriage as being between a man and a woman

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