How will this play in Malta?

Professor Douglas Kmiec made a cottage industry of arguing ‘how a pro-life Catholic can support a pro-abortion candidate’ in the 2008 presidential campaign. He caused no small eruption of heated debate by throwing his support, very publicly, behind the most pro-abortion politician who ran for high office, Barack Obama. And taking every forum available to argue the convoluted vision of morality behind that choice. When Obama won the election, even bishops suggested Kmiec at least use whatever influence he had with the president to encourage policies that advance human rights for all human beings.

Then they were speculating – at least in Catholic media – that Kmiec was hoping for the Vatican ambassadorship, though he kept getting passed over by each successive name floated by the White House. The latest, Miguel Diaz, will likely be confirmed, and there goes that opportunity.

But alas, Kmiec gets a plum job after all. Confirmation here is a certainty. Reception there is…..another story.

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