{"id":13075,"date":"2009-05-29T17:56:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T17:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_obama_names_hispanic_theologian_as_vatican_envoy\/"},"modified":"2009-05-29T17:56:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T17:56:29","slug":"rns_obama_names_hispanic_theologian_as_vatican_envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13075","title":{"rendered":"RNS: Obama Names Hispanic Theologian as Vatican Envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has nominated Hispanic theologian Miguel H. Diaz as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz, a professor of theology at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John\u2019s University in Minnesota, was nominated as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See on Wednesday (May 27).<\/p>\n<p>If the nomination is approved by the Senate, Diaz, 45, would be the ninth ambassador and the first Hispanic in the post since Washington and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz was Obama\u2019s second high-profile Hispanic Catholic nominee in as many days, following the president\u2019s choice of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court. Observers said Diaz is a subtle, if perhaps unintentional, acknowledgment of the growing ranks of Hispanics in the U.S. church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=14299\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has nominated Hispanic theologian Miguel H. Diaz as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. Diaz, a professor of theology at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John\u2019s University in Minnesota, was nominated as U.S. ambassador to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13075\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,616,154,151,636,667,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}