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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sun May 14, 2017, 03:30 PM May 2017

Callista 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 Trump’s list to become the next ambassador to the Vatican, CNN is reporting.

Early Sunday morning, CNN’s 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 husband’s 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/
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Callista Gingrich in "final stages of confirmation" to become US Vatican ambassador (Original Post) Miles Archer May 2017 OP
Pity the Pope. Vinca May 2017 #1
A manwith three wives is a devout Catholic malaise May 2017 #2
Henry VIII always considered himself one. WinkyDink May 2017 #17
Newt loves the sacrament of marriage. guillaumeb May 2017 #28
ROFL malaise May 2017 #29
If it gets Newt out of town.... virtualobserver May 2017 #3
That is my thought on the subject too. nt stevenleser May 2017 #13
Scarey, Wellstone ruled May 2017 #4
I loved her in the Black Hole Sun video. dawg May 2017 #5
On the beach chair! Cooley Hurd May 2017 #9
I was actually thinking more like the lady with the guy doing the push-ups. dawg May 2017 #12
Holy shit. I can't stop laughing. DangerousRhythm May 2017 #38
Pope receives her... Cooley Hurd May 2017 #6
As they would say on "Fargo" .... PsychoBabble May 2017 #7
IMO we really need another acronym like IOKIYAR. This one could be SBBIAOP... WePurrsevere May 2017 #8
Run Frank, run. GeorgeGist May 2017 #10
Because Rome doesn't have enough gargoyles? GoCubsGo May 2017 #11
Oh, that is PERFECT! 3catwoman3 May 2017 #19
As is her husband. GoCubsGo May 2017 #21
I agree completely. 3catwoman3 May 2017 #32
Hey ! Did she ever get absolution for the adultery her jaysunb May 2017 #14
Crazy eyes NastyRiffraff May 2017 #15
They began an affair in 1993? How devfout of a catholic can she be? MiniMe May 2017 #16
I'm an atheist, but this is a YUGE slap in the face to the Pope and the Catholic church. trof May 2017 #18
"This is just 'in-your-face fuck you." 3catwoman3 May 2017 #20
I'm an agnostic who was drafted and raised Catholic. GoCubsGo May 2017 #22
I think I would have a panic attack ... lpbk2713 May 2017 #23
How about an elevator stalled between floors? Miles Archer May 2017 #27
This is such an insult. smirkymonkey May 2017 #24
What a great idea. A divorced home wrecker married to a wife abuser. Stinky The Clown May 2017 #25
Good for her she's not in the 'final stages' of something else superpatriotman May 2017 #26
She looks as crazy as Newt blueinredohio May 2017 #30
Chicken Lady.... wcmagumba May 2017 #31
She was devoutly giving ole married Newt NewRedDawn May 2017 #33
please wake me when this fucking nightmare is over..... spanone May 2017 #34
how devout of her to cheat on her husband.........not Demonaut May 2017 #35
LOL ethics investigation.... IcyPeas May 2017 #36
I just have no words dsc May 2017 #37

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
28. Newt loves the sacrament of marriage.
Sun May 14, 2017, 08:43 PM
May 2017

He loves it so much that he has been married 3 times.

So far.

dawg

(10,610 posts)
12. I was actually thinking more like the lady with the guy doing the push-ups.
Sun May 14, 2017, 05:12 PM
May 2017

But your choice is good too.

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
6. Pope receives her...
Sun May 14, 2017, 03:43 PM
May 2017

Politely greets her, then turns and run screaming; "Man-bird! Run for your lives!"

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)
8. IMO we really need another acronym like IOKIYAR. This one could be SBBIAOP...
Sun May 14, 2017, 03:47 PM
May 2017

'should be but isn't an Onion piece'.

3catwoman3

(23,813 posts)
19. Oh, that is PERFECT!
Sun May 14, 2017, 06:57 PM
May 2017

I know looks-shaming is generally frowned upon, but gawd almighty, she is one creepy looking woman.

3catwoman3

(23,813 posts)
32. I agree completely.
Sun May 14, 2017, 09:29 PM
May 2017

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.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
15. Crazy eyes
Sun May 14, 2017, 05:40 PM
May 2017

Like Michele Bachmann. The Vatican can have both of the Gingriches. They can watch how Good Catholic Newt behaves as a matter of course.

trof

(54,255 posts)
18. I'm an atheist, but this is a YUGE slap in the face to the Pope and the Catholic church.
Sun May 14, 2017, 06:32 PM
May 2017

Really.
This is just 'in-your-face fuck you.

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
22. I'm an agnostic who was drafted and raised Catholic.
Sun May 14, 2017, 08:30 PM
May 2017

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.

superpatriotman

(6,232 posts)
26. Good for her she's not in the 'final stages' of something else
Sun May 14, 2017, 08:39 PM
May 2017

or Newt (a beer fart in human form) would leave her in a hot second.

 

NewRedDawn

(790 posts)
33. She was devoutly giving ole married Newt
Sun May 14, 2017, 09:33 PM
May 2017

blow jobs under his desk while he was drafting impeachment on Clinton getting a blowjob from Monica.

IcyPeas

(21,740 posts)
36. LOL ethics investigation....
Sun May 14, 2017, 10:06 PM
May 2017

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

(52,130 posts)
37. I just have no words
Sun May 14, 2017, 11:21 PM
May 2017

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.

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