re: Anybody Else Bothered by Mrs. Gingrich as Ambassador to the Vatican

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I cannot think of a less relevant ambassadorship as those jobs go than that to the Holy See, so what is the problem?

And OP, Iceland is a NATO member, that post is infinetly more important than who gets to take pictures with the pope and set their friends up with tours of St Peters

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Of ALL the sh*t-for-brains opinions I have EVER read on TD, this is the cherry on top.

You DO realize that there are 1 billion Catholics around the globe, in nearly every corner of the earth, represented by nearly every ethnicity and language... all reporting to a central authority? Or don't you?

President Reagan's administration felt that the Vatican was the greatest intelligence collecting body on the earth, including the CIA. Catholics tell their priest what they see and hear, the priests tell their bishops, the bishops tell the archbishops... it all filters back to the Vatican.

There are allegiances by the faithful where there would otherwise be no 'in' to an informant or source.

Damn, boy. I bet you voted for Bernie.