ambassador to the Vatican
Trump nominates Callista Gingrich as ambassador to Vatican
By Eric Walsh — May 19, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) The White House confirmed the president's plans to nominate Callista Gingrich as ambassador to the Vatican on Friday (May 19).
Ambassador: Pope Francis’ spontaneity makes security a challenge
By Rosie Scammell — August 25, 2015
ROME (RNS) But security agencies protecting the pope on his upcoming U.S. trip know they can’t “put him in a bubble, and he doesn’t want to be in a bubble,” says Kenneth F. Hackett, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.
Pope Francis to make Franciscan missionary a saint during US trip
By David Gibson — January 15, 2015
(RNS) Pope Francis said Thursday (Jan. 15) he plans to canonize 18th-century Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra during the papal visit to the U.S. in September, an indication that the pontiff may be mulling a stop near the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Let a female speculate”: Full text of Sister Elizabeth Johnson’s LCWR talk
By David Gibson — August 17, 2014
The Fordham theologian defends her work and the American nuns, and offers reasons for the clash between theologians -- and the sisters -- and the Vatican. Conflict does arise but it can become “a link in the chain of a new process.”
Thomas Melady, former U.S. envoy to the Vatican, dies at 86
By Eric J. Lyman — January 8, 2014
(ROME) As U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Thomas Melady he was instrumental in influencing Pope John Paul II's Vatican to recognize Israel as a sovereign state.
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