Who will Joe Biden send to Rome? 8 top contenders for U.S. ambassador to the Vatican
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets Pope Francis after both leaders spoke at a conference on adult stem cell research at the Vatican April 29. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) As Joseph R. Biden Jr., the second Catholic president in U.S. history, continues to fill out his administration, a number of important executive and ambassadorial nominees will go before the Senate. One position of particular interest for American Catholics is the U.S. ambassadorship to the Holy See. Since 1984, the United States and the Holy See have maintained formal diplomatic relations, building on a fraught history of rel...
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