{"id":3691,"date":"2009-04-11T16:01:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T16:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2025-09-26T02:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:51:40","slug":"vatican-rejects-caroline-kennedy-as-us-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3691","title":{"rendered":"Vatican rejects Caroline Kennedy as U.S. ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An in-your-face pro-abortion nomination by the Obama Administration. Ahy not nominate a racist as&nbsp;the Ambassador to Nigeria?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/vaticancityandholysee\/5138135\/Vatican-blocks-Caroline-Kennedy-appointment-as-US-ambassador.html\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>Vatican blocks Caroline Kennedy appointment as US ambassador &#8211; Telegraph<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Italian paper said that the Vatican strongly disapproved of Mr Obama&#8217;s support for abortion and stem cell research. The impasse over the ambassadorial appointment threatens to cloud his meeting with the Pope during a G8 summit in Itay in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s imperative, it&#8217;s essential that the person who represents us to the Holy See be a person who has pro-life values&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that Ray Flynn is a Democrat and former Mayor of Boston. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An in-your-face pro-abortion nomination by the Obama Administration. Ahy not nominate a racist as&nbsp;the Ambassador to Nigeria? Vatican blocks Caroline Kennedy appointment as US ambassador &#8211; Telegraph The Italian paper said that the Vatican strongly disapproved of Mr Obama&#8217;s support for abortion and stem cell research. The impasse over the ambassadorial appointment threatens to cloud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10225,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions\/10225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}