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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCallista Gingrich confirmed as Vatican ambassador
I hope we hear less from vile Newt now that he will move to Rome with his wife.
Callista Gingrich confirmed as Vatican ambassador
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/callista-gingrich-vatican-ambassador/index.html?sr=twCNNp101717callista-gingrich-vatican-ambassador1031AMVODtop&CNNPolitics=Tw
By Delia Gallagher, CNN
Updated 10:28 AM ET, Tue October 17, 2017
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Gingrich, 51, a lifelong Catholic, is perhaps best-known as the wife of Newt Gingrich
The Trump administration is currently at odds with the Vatican on several key issues
Gingrich, 51, a lifelong Catholic, is perhaps best-known as the third wife of former House speaker and Trump ally Newt Gingrich. She is credited with helping to convert her husband to Catholicism in 2009.
Callista Gingrich worked for 19 years in Congress as a congressional aide in the House of Representatives and as chief clerk of the House agriculture committee.
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"I'll be the person at the front door saying, 'Hi, I'm Newt Gingrich. The ambassador will be down shortly,'" he told Politico. "It's a great new role. Callista supported me in '12 when I ran for president; I get to support her now. And I get to join the spouse organization."
Callista Gingrich is the third female ambassador to serve in the position since formal diplomatic relations were established between the Vatican and the United States in 1984.
She will take up the post in Rome in early November, according to the US Vatican Embassy.
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Callista Gingrich confirmed as Vatican ambassador (Original Post)
riversedge
Oct 2017
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spanone
(135,781 posts)1. ....until the pope smells the sulfur
coolsandy
(479 posts)2. Third or fourth wife of Newt?
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)3. Callista supported me, I get to support her now.
Callista Bisek met Newt Gingrich in 1993 when he was House Minority Whip and she was working in the office of Congressman Steve Gunderson. Callista testified in 1999 as part of Gingrich's divorce proceedings that the couple began a six-year affair in 1993 while Newt was married to his second wife, Marianne. Newt divorced Marianne in December 1999, and on August 18, 2000, Callista and Newt were married in a private ceremony in Alexandria, Virginia. In 2002, Newt Gingrich asked the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta to annul his 19-year marriage to Marianne on the basis that she had been previously married.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callista_Gingrich
MineralMan
(146,248 posts)4. Alert the Chief Exorcist at the Vatican.
She's got demon eyes. A sure sign of possession.
No Vested Interest
(5,163 posts)5. Newt could be the EWTN correspondent in the Vatican.
Whatever he does, I doubt that he'll become "Silent Newt".
He can't keep himself from spouting off his opinions; it's part of his nature.
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