NPR: Callista Gingrich Nominated As Ambassador To The Vatican

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Callista Gingrich Nominated As Ambassador To The Vatican
President Trump’s choice to represent the United States at the Vatican, Callista Gingrich, has one especially prominent achievement as a Catholic: She is responsible for her husband, former House speaker Newt Gingrich, converting to Roman Catholicism in 2009.
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“When Newt became a Catholic, it was one of the happiest moments of my life,” she said in a 2012 interview with The New Yorker.
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Callista Gingrich was raised in Wisconsin as a Catholic, but attended Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, on a music scholarship. She has been an accomplished pianist since childhood and also plays the French horn. For the past 20 years, she has sung professionally in the choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington, D.C.
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Trump To Nominate Callista Gingrich As Vatican Ambassador HuffPost

Trump nominates Callista Gingrich for ambassador to the Vatican The Hill
 
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But she will also find plenty of common ground in areas such as religious freedom, life, and combating human trafficking, as well as the search for peace and security in the Middle East and other areas of tension and conflict.
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The President and the Pope also share a populist appeal and speak with the language of the person on the street, bypassing elites and those traditionally holding the levers of power.
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