Callista Gingrich

Now Hiring: Vatican ambassador is unique in U.S. diplomatic corps
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- July 28, 2017
As Callista Gingrich is ushered in as the new ambassador to the Vatican, an overview of the importance of the role and the experience of her predecessors illustrates the challenges and opportunities down the road. The U.S. representative will have to exercise what the former ambassador, Jim Nicholson, called a “moral diplomacy.”
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Vatican nominee tells Senate panel Trump wants to be ‘environmental leader’
- Church in the US, Vatican
- July 18, 2017
Callista Gingrich, wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, told a Senate panel on Tuesday that despite pulling out of the Paris climate change accord, Trump wants the U.S. to be an ‘environmental leader’ and she can find common ground with Pope Francis’s team.
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It’s official: Callista Gingrich to be Trump’s Vatican ambassador
- Pope/Trump, Vatican
- May 20, 2017
The White House on Friday confirmed President Donald Trump’s intent to name Callista Gingrich, wife of former House speaker Newt Gingrich, as his ambassador to the Holy See. The announcement comes days before Trump is set to meet Pope Francis in the Vatican, and was taken as a positive sign by one former U.S. envoy to the Vatican in terms of how seriously Trump may view the relationship.
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Reports say Callista Gingrich to be ambassador to the Vatican
- Associated Press, Church in the US, Pope/Trump, Vatican
- May 16, 2017
Press reports say U.S. President Donald Trump will nominate Callista Gingrich as the next Ambassador to the Vatican. Trump is scheduled to meet Pope Francis on Wednesday, May 24 between trips to Saudi Arabia and NATO and G-7 summits.
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