Vatican update

Earlier today I linked to this story:

The US ambassador to the Holy See can't be pro-choice? What, would they refuse to have diplomatic relations with a nation where almost everyone is pro-choice? Hurray for theocratic fanaticism. TMV comments further.

But as it turns out:

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is denying that it has rejected several candidates for U.S. ambassador to the Holy See because of their support for abortion rights.

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Friday that he checked the reports in the American and Italian media and there is no truth to them. He also told the U.S. Catholic News Service that no names of proposed ambassadors had reached the Vatican from Washington.

The reports underline possible tensions between the Vatican and the government of President Barack Obama because of its support for abortion rights and stem cell research, a reversal the policies of the George W. Bush administration.

Whoops.