Hispanic Theologian Chosen for Vatican Ambassador: An Hispanic Roman Catholic theologian who was an adviser to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign will be nominated to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, the White House announced Wednesday.
Dr. Miguel H. Diaz, 45, an associate professor of theology at the College of Saint Benedict and St. John's University in St. Joseph, Minn., would be the first Hispanic to serve as ambassador to the Vatican since the United States and the Holy See established full diplomatic ties in 1984. Diaz was born in Havana.
The announcement comes in the same week President Obama nominated federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor, who was raised Catholic and attended Catholic schools, to the Supreme Court. She would be the high court's first Hispanic justice."
