Frances Kissling

Only when both sides of the abortion debate express their views will we find common ground. Restrained discourse helps nobody.

The Vatican has thus far given the thumbs down on the Obama admin’s first couple of candidates for ambassador. One wonders whether the U.S. routinely allows countries to decide who our ambassador should be?

The 10 remaining picks did little to rectify the anti-reform, anti-woman, anti-gay tilt of Obama’s Faith-Based Advisory Council. Not to mention the conspicuous absence of a single academic theologian.