If you were puzzled by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano ‘s positive article on President Obama’s Notre Dame speech—which appeared right next to another article strongly criticizing his stand on stem-cell research—the paper’s editor, Paulo Rodari, may have cleared things up a bit in an interview yesterday: Apparently, Rodari is under the decidedly false impression that “Obama is not a pro-abortion president.”
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