Callista Gingrich confirmed as US Ambassador to the Vatican. (As seen on C-Span)

[CBHagman]

9. She didn't die just then...

Let me say up front that Newt Gingrich does and says horrible things, and of course the current Mrs. Gingrich carried on with him during his second marriage. But Jackie Battley, the first Mrs. Gingrich, was not terminally ill when he sought to divorce her.

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/12/the-gingrich-divorce-myth/

Jackie Battley Gingrich lived until 2013.

As for the current ambassador to the Vatican, I'm all for forgiveness and redemption, but it's very hard to see this as anything other than considerable slack being cut for people with the right connections. Your average Catholic might get a bit more pushback if involved in a very public scandal.

And surely there must be many Catholic Republicans who possess the right experience and character for the ambassadorship. One of the complaints about Callista Gingrich was that she wasn't qualified to be an ambassador.