[Antioch]

Professor Galli: "... I am able to make my own judgment on some issues and I do not need to be told by the Church what to do or to think" Hmmmmm...A succinct credo of the dissenter.

[GSlob]

Well, dissenters make more interesting interlocutors than parrots. Given the choice of having as a dinner guest a dissenter or a party line mouthpiece, I'd go with the dissenter.

[Catholic Iowan]

So the question is, will the bishops here in the U.S. enforce the excommunications that are supposed to take place with the so-called Catholic politicians that will (or have?) voted to allow embryonic stem-cell research. I'm thinking of pols like Kerry, Harkin, and Fat Teddy, for starters.

[syriacus]

Prof Galli likened the Vatican to the Taliban

The pro-death crowd is gratuitously dishonest.

That comparison is a real stretch.

The Church, which is allowed to have rules for its members, isn't threatening Galli with any harm.

[stocksthatgoup]

It is time to expel embryonic stem cell politicians from the church!