Why not against whole political parties? Whole professions (ie, embryonic stem cell researchers)? Why not pronunce public televised anathemas against proabort politicians, and threaten them with civil lawsuits (ie trademark infringment) if they call themselves Catholic after that?
I'd really like to see the Catholic Church get a lot more aggressive on this stuff... maybe I'm subconsciously looking for an excuse to join it...
Vatican vows to expel stem cell scientists from Church.
Oh, really?
Well you can always decide to go to some other church, after all it's not compulsary to be a catholic, like it used to be in the dark ages.
What bothers me is that the church seems to have a double standard. Stem cell research does not automatically mean the use of embryos, there are other ways. At the same time, though, the church endorses sending large numbers of perfectly healthy people into harms way (yes, I mean our troops) by providing the military with a good number of chaplains, knowing that a good number will not make it back. We know by now that wars are fought for a reason, and that stem cell research takes place for a reason. Why does the church fail to concede that you have to break some eggs if you want an omelette?