Callista Gingrich set to be named ambassador to the Vatican

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN



By Jeff Zeleny and Caroline Kenny, CNN
Updated 11:58 AM ET, Sun May 14, 2017

Washington (CNN)Callista Gingrich, the wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, is the preferred nominee to be the next ambassador to the Vatican.

The White House hopes to announce her nomination before President Donald Trump meets with Pope Francis on May 24 in Rome.

The decision to nominate Gingrich has been made, but the announcement has taken longer than expected pending approval from the Office of Government Ethics, an administration official said.

The White House hopes to formally nominate Gingrich as soon as this week.
Gingrich is a devout Catholic, telling the Christian Broadcasting Network in a 2011 interview that she has "always been a very spiritual person."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/14/politics/callista-gingrich-vatican-ambassador/index.html

[trusty elf]

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[hibbing]

55. Is that the 2nd or 3rd wife?

[Siwsan]

2. "Gingrich is a devout Catholic" ???????? Didn't she break up his 2nd marriage?

And didn't his first 2 marriages end in divorce, not annulment, because of adultery??

I guess that I get really easily confused by which church rules apply to the rich, and which to the poor.

[tenorly]

8. I certainly hope Pope Francis remembers that

The Vatican is normally strict about rejecting ambassadorial appointments if the nominee was, for instance, divorced, or is a known adulterer.

Frau Gingrich is not only an adultress and a home wrecker, she probably engages in black masses too.

[Siwsan]

10. And I was inarticulate. I should have said she participated in the break-up, with him

This just really shocked me. And that's getting increasingly difficult to do!

[tenorly]

14. No - you weren't at all, Siwsan.

She's a homewrecker pure and simple. That's evil in and of itself.

But I suspect that in her case it goes much further than that.

[George II]

16. He was having an affair with wife #2 while still married to wife #1, and....

...he told her he was divorcing her at the hospital where she was recovering from cancer surgery.

He then was having an affair with eventual wife #3 (Callista) while still married to wife #2.

[LeftyMom]

18. The first two marriages were annulled.

Strangely enough if he demonstrates that he had no intention of being faithful to either wife that invalidates the marriages and gives him grounds for an annulment.

[Siwsan]

19. One can only wonder how much $$ changed hands to get TWO annulments

And I would think that would give the faithful wives grounds, not the hound dog husband!! Otherwise, why wouldn't that pretty much be able to be the claim of any adulterous spouse?

[SharonAnn]

27. Yes, money can get you annulments. Devout Catholic, indeed!

[LeftyMom]

28. If the marriage is invalid it's invalid for both parties.

The first marriage would be considered invalid because his first wife had been previously married and had not had an annullment (neither marriage was Catholic, but the church recognizes outside marriages and does not recognize civil divorce, so it would consider her marriage to Newt to be bigamy and thus invalid.)

The second marriage is invalid for the same reason on Newt's part.

His behavior would contribute to the case that the marriages were invalid because he demonstrated that he did not intend to honor his vows and form a lifelong relationship. But even with perfect behavior the serial monogamy of all parties involved is grounds for invalidating their marriages.

Fees to the diocese for an annulment are about a grand, but he probably shelled out a pretty penny for professionals to write the documents and walk the paperwork through. The good news for him is that since the previous wives, being civilly divorced from him and not Catholic, had no incentive to dispute the annulment.

[Ilsa]

29. Had no intention of being faithful?

Then what are the vows about? Sticking with a double-shot vanilla latte and not straying into drinking a cappuccino?

[Kingofalldems]

41. Yes.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. The devout Catholic and spiritual person

who had an affair with Newt (yeah, I know; ick) while he was married to Marianne, with whom he had an affair while he was married to Jackie?

[dalton99a]

12. +1

[QED]

13. And served divorce papers to one when she was in the hospital

dying of cancer IIRC.

[George II]

17. Not dying, but recovering from cancer surgery. She lived for another 25 years or so.

[underpants]

4. On the plus side this gets Newt out of the country

Come on people, we have to start looking for SOMETHING positive in all this.

[Solly Mack]

5. Yes, very devout. LMAO

It all depends on your definition of devout.

[George II]

6. Why doesn't trump just punch the Pope in the stomach? In the eyes of the Catholic Church...

...the thrice married Newt Gingrich is an adulterer as is Callista for marrying a man who has been divorced twice.

[Scarsdale]

44. Newticles and Calista

were having their affair, while giggling over the hearings for Bill Clinton and the Lewinsky mess. Newticles instigated the entire fiasco. He is as repulsive as tRump, and every bit as useless.

[secondwind]

7. That's the BEST they can offer to the Pope? sheesh

[joshdawg]

24. They are scraping under the bottom.

republicans have no one with any sense of morality or ethics. No one!
I really have a lot of doubts about this callista woman.

[BigMin28]

9. Just another

Big F*** You to decent people everywhere. He is nothing but a pustules on hamanity.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Bulk up those GOP resumes and keep the money in the extended family

[Still In Wisconsin]

15. Wait, I'm confused... can one of the local Catholics help this Jew understand?

Isn't marital fidelity still sort of- well, a pillar of the Christian faith?

[LeftyMom]

20. Catholic teaching is that if you weren't capable and fully committed to a valid marriage at the time

of the ceremony that it doesn't count (plus some other stuff, for example you can't have a Catholic marriage if you're a man who is paralyzed below the waist because you can't consummate the marriage.)

So if Newt writes a little position paper and has an interview and has a few buddies to back up his story that he was a total manwhore and never intended to be faithful to wives #1 and 2, the church will consider those marriages invalid. But the kids (he has some from marriage #1) will still be considered legitimate because the couple assumed their marriage was valid at the time of birth.

Also money changes hands. If you're powerful basically you don't get declined for an annulment unless your wife's uncle is holding the Pope captive (that's a Henry VIII joke, kids. I don't get to make many of those.) Two thousand years of precedent and loopholes mean there's undoubtedly one that applies in most any circumstance and professionals exist just to find them for you and prepare the necessary documents.

[dhill926]

21. she'll probably burst into flames at the sight....

[shadowmayor]

22. American Family Values

It's OK if you're a Newt!

[mdbl]

23. Is she the only adulteress they cound find?

There has to be someone else who wasn't married to a man who was fined for financial improprieties while in congress.

[3catwoman3]

25. I think the whole annulment...

...idea is, for the most part, a bunch of BS. Either you were married, or you weren't. I can see it in some narrow circumstances - one or both parties under the age of majority at the time of the marriage; coercion of some kind; mental status sufficiently impaired by reduced capacity of drugs/alcohol that one truly did not know what one was doing. Also, duration of the marriage seems relevant.

Gingrich was with the first wife from 1962-1981, second one from 1981-2000, #3 since 2000.

19 years for the first 2 wives. Callista is at 17. Maybe Callista's expiration date is coming up in a couple of years.

I'm not Catholic, nor Christian (happily questioning UU), but this is unseemly and disrespectful.

[Ilsa]

32. I wonder if newt will reside with her

in Italy or Vatican City? Maybe he'll stay behind looking for the future ex-Mrs. Gingrich.

[keithbvadu2]

53. She'll make sure to take him with her.

She herself is proof positive that he cannot be trusted out of her sight.
.

[Grins]

26. Edit!: Famed adulteress set to be named ambassador to the Vatican

My edit to that headline. Famed adulteress set to be named ambassador to the Vatican

[Achilleaze]

30. So Caligula Von Gin-grich is returning repube "family values" to Vatican Town

She is the perfect exemplar of the moral values held by Comrade Casino* and his republican Kabal of Kolluding Komrades.



* republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Warpy]

31. Good place for her and that fat slug she's married to

Maybe Jabba the Gingrich will eat all the wrong Italian foods and explode. I just wonder if an adulteress will be acceptable to them. Anyone married to a divorced partner whose prior marriages haven't been sanitized by expensive Catholic annulments is considered an adulterer/adulteress under church law.

[Wawannabe]

33. ...

[northoftheborder]

34. OMG

Let's not fret over the FBI head assignment: it will be the worst any of us could think of. Just accept that - and RESIST.

At least maybe her husband will go with her, and we won't get to hear his smarmy comments.

[dembotoz]

35. i wish this was funnier instead of just plain sick

[jalan48]

36. I'd like to see the Democrat's use any delaying tactics they have at their disposal on this one.

Send Trump and Gingrich a message.

[Zen Democrat]

37. What qualifications does this woman have except being Gingrich's chippie during Clinton Impeachment

and wearing the worst wig of all time!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

38. It's the payoff to Newt Gingrich for his quasi-endorsment during the election. . . nt

[JHB]

39. Newt begins cheating on her with Future Mrs. Gingirch #4 in 5, 4, 3, 2...

Cally won't mind. She's trading up too.

[Hula Popper]

40. this bitch being in the news is like HUFF PO

- making us aware the sisters are fuckinh 4 football teams this weekend...

- that steve irwins wife is boinking russell crowe

- that kate whatser name is boinking Jamie Fox.

All important shit in tv land where people have no idea who is running for their representative or senate. And don't plan to vote anyhow.

Fuck America, dumbest animals on earth...

[spiderpig]

42. I haven't needed to read The Onion in quite awhile.

Even they couldn't make this shit up.

[stuffmatters]

43. Wow, thought this was in the Onion. Yet Trump rewards/ bribes hubby's through wives.

Seemed to have worked to get McConnell to menace away making public the Intelligence investigation prior to the election: now MCConnell as his immovable objection protecting him. I wonder what Newt has on Trump or offers him?
Seems a very expensive reward for just Newt's support.

Callista/Newt like Clarence Thomas, the stomach-turner-that-never-goes-away for decent Americans (especially women.)

[Scarsdale]

45. Cindy McCain

is also being considered for a government post. I am sure she needs the $$$. Watch for lumpy little Johnny to start kissing up to tRump - big time.

[stuffmatters]

48. Excellent point and prediction!

Pretty much discourages any false hopes of McCain's patriotism, that McCain will put Country over Party re:Russia/Trump.

[keithbvadu2]

54. McCain kissed up to Dubya after Dubya's campaign called McCain a traitor and the father of a black b

McCain kissed up to Dubya after Dubya's campaign called McCain a traitor and the father of a black baby.
.

[jpak]

46. Teh Holy Homewrecker

yup

[Mars and Minerva]

47. Trump must really hate the Pope! nt

[left-of-center2012]

49. "Gingrich is a devout Catholic"

[delisen]

51. Catholic Church endorses adultery by honoring Callista Gingrich

as ambassador.

Two groups we no longer have to listen to on issues of personal morality-Evangelical Christians and Catholic Church.

I am sure it won't keep them from preaching and screeching though.

[GTurck]

52. An adultress?

Isn't that a pile being blown at Pope Francis and the Vatican? She may be all she says she is but there are protocols and sensitivities involved in such posts. Do these people respect anyone?

[rurallib]

56. New Yorker Donny tells the pope to "suck a big one"

in a manner of speaking.

Sending a message that the pope should kiss his ass.

If Frank don't like it, he'll tell the Church to get another pope.

[Nitram]

57. So the salamander gets his quid pro quo?