Sorry to get all Catholic on you, but I was just alerted to an ad in a D.C. Catholic newspaper advertising the National Italian American Foundation dinner in D.C. next week. Rudy Giuliani and Nancy Pelosi — two pro-legal-abortion Catholics — are being honored. And, according to the ad, the papal nuncio — the Vatican’s official representative in the United States — is giving the invocation. Of course, the case could be made they could use the conversion prayers on the issue, but Archbishop Sambi should pray for them from afar — his presence there would appear to be a papal imprimatur for the guests of honor. That strikes me as wholly inappropriate — and sending the wrong message about what the Catholic Church takes seriously.