IN A RELATED STORY...:
3 STRIKES AT VATICAN (James Morrison, April 7, 2009, Washington Times)
The Vatican has quietly rejected at least three of President Obama's candidates to serve as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See because they support abortion, and the White House might be running out of time to find an acceptable envoy before Mr. Obama travels to Rome in July, when he hopes to meet Pope Benedict XVI.
Italian journalist Massimo Franco, who broke the story about the White House attempts to find a suitable ambassador to the Vatican, said papal advisers told Mr. Obama's aides privately that the candidates failed to meet the Vatican's most basic qualification on the abortion issue.
...Israel has turned down the idea of Ambassador John Demjanjuk....
Posted by Orrin Judd at April 10, 2009 6:49 AM
