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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCallista Gingrich in "final stages of confirmation" to become US Vatican ambassador
The wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) has moved to the top of President Donald Trumps list to become the next ambassador to the Vatican, CNN is reporting.
Early Sunday morning, CNNs Jeff Zeleny reported that Callista Gingrich is in the final stages of confirmation, the ethics people are going through all of this, and that the announcement from the Trump White House could come this week.
According to CNN, the administration has decided on Gingrich a devout Catholic for the position, which could also see her husband a frequent Fox News guest moving to Italy with her.
The former congressional staffer married Gingrich in 2000 following his divorce in 1999 from his second wife, Marianne. According to the Chicago Tribune, the then-Callista Bisek gave a deposition used at at her future husbands divorce proceedings that the two had begun an affair in 1993 before he became House speaker.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/callista-gingrich-set-to-become-next-us-ambassador-to-vatican-following-ethics-investigation-cnn/
Vinca
(50,255 posts)malaise
(268,887 posts)Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahahhaa
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)He loves it so much that he has been married 3 times.
So far.
malaise
(268,887 posts)virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)I'm all for it!
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)just taking care of the Newt.
dawg
(10,622 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)I knew this looked familiar!
dawg
(10,622 posts)But your choice is good too.
DangerousRhythm
(2,916 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Politely greets her, then turns and run screaming; "Man-bird! Run for your lives!"
PsychoBabble
(837 posts)"Oh Jeez ...."
(Stepford Wife, anyone?)
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)'should be but isn't an Onion piece'.
GeorgeGist
(25,318 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,078 posts)Trump wants to send them two more?
3catwoman3
(23,970 posts)I know looks-shaming is generally frowned upon, but gawd almighty, she is one creepy looking woman.
GoCubsGo
(32,078 posts)With a personality to match.
3catwoman3
(23,970 posts)Frankly, (to borrow one of Newtie's favorite words) the combination of his voice, his personality, his mindset and his physical appearance is an argument for celibacy/abstinence.
The same can be said for Trump and McConnell.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)and Newt were committing ?
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Like Michele Bachmann. The Vatican can have both of the Gingriches. They can watch how Good Catholic Newt behaves as a matter of course.
MiniMe
(21,714 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)Really.
This is just 'in-your-face fuck you.
3catwoman3
(23,970 posts)That is definitely how I see it.
(Agnostic UU here)
GoCubsGo
(32,078 posts)I think Don the Con picked her because Newt asked him to. I don't think he really put too much thought into it, beyond rewarding someone for their loyalty. I really don't think it went beyond that. I don't think he even understands things enough to realize that naming her to that position could be considered a slap in the face.
lpbk2713
(42,751 posts)if I was in the same room with her and Michelle Bachmann.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Sorry to ramp up the horror for you.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I'm not even religious, but I am embarrassed by this decision.
Stinky The Clown
(67,786 posts)How special we are.
superpatriotman
(6,247 posts)or Newt (a beer fart in human form) would leave her in a hot second.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)wcmagumba
(2,883 posts)Kids in the Hall had her on their show years ago...
NewRedDawn
(790 posts)blow jobs under his desk while he was drafting impeachment on Clinton getting a blowjob from Monica.
spanone
(135,816 posts)Demonaut
(8,914 posts)IcyPeas
(21,857 posts)hey, this is the catholic church we're talking about here (I grew up catholic)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/08/bad-nun-arrested-for-helping-priests-sexually-abuse-deaf-children-in-argentina/?utm_term=.665262431998
The students in the school for deaf children would call her the bad nun, the woman who was supposed to take care of them, but who they say would send them into rooms to be sexually abused by priests. Others said she committed abuse herself and would force them to watch pornography on television.
And in a particularly abhorrent case, after a 5-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a priest, the Roman Catholic nun allegedly forced her to wear a diaper in class, to conceal the bleeding, according to Argentine news reports.
Because the other children at the school were deaf, only the victims abusers would have heard their cries.
The nun, named Kosaka Kumiko, was arrested and charged Friday on suspicion of helping priests sexually abuse children at the Antonio Provolo Institute, a school for the hearing-impaired in the Mendoza province of Argentina, authorities said. She was also charged with physically abusing the students.
dsc
(52,155 posts)Several Republicans had an outright fit over Obama naming Hormel as Ambassador to Luxembourg over it being a nominally Catholic country and he being openly gay. Now this home wrecker is fit to be Ambassador to the Vatican according to the very same people. I literally have no words at all.