Mystery Solved

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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