secretary of state
Reform of Vatican Curia to be considered at meeting of cardinals
By Thomas Reese — August 23, 2022
(RNS) — As the cardinals discuss curial reforms, they will also be thinking about who among them might be the next pope.
Who gets to unplug the pope?
By Thomas Reese — July 27, 2021
(RNS) — Even a pope needs a medical directive.
5 faith facts about Mike Pompeo: A divisive devotion
By Jack Jenkins — April 19, 2018
(RNS) — His conservative Christian faith undergirds his beliefs, which many say are anti-gay and anti-Muslim.
Pompeo’s Kansas church asks God to ‘give him strength’ in Senate confirmation process
By Bobby Ross Jr. — April 17, 2018
WICHITA, Kan. (RNS) — 'Mike has enemies because of his faith who may try to paint him in a poor light and make it difficult for him to reach the Secretary of State position,' the pastor of nominee Mike Pompeo wrote to his congregation.
Muslims find Jews standing behind them in opposition to Pompeo’s confirmation
By Yonat Shimron — April 12, 2018
(RNS) — At his confirmation hearing today, many Muslims and Jews want to hear if Trump's nominee for secretary of state has repudiated his anti-Muslim views.
Madeleine Albright: ‘I stand ready to register as a Muslim’
By Sean Rossman — January 27, 2017
(Reuters) The president on the campaign trail said he would create such a registry but chief of staff Reince Priebus has said that Trump has no plans for one.
Mitt Romney’s rejection as secretary of state is bad news for the nation — and the world
By Jana Riess — December 14, 2016
The decision to pass over Mitt Romney, one of Trump’s most strident and consistent critics during the long campaign, tells us that at the end of the day, our insecure, thin-skinned, volatile president-elect isn’t prepared to put the good of the nation and the world ahead of his own bruised ego.
Trump’s secretary of state pick may anger social conservatives
By David Gibson — December 13, 2016
(RNS) Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson helped convince the Boy Scouts to admit gay youths and the oil giant contributes to Planned Parenthood.
Cardinal Raymond Burke: Trump will defend human life from conception
By Josephine McKenna — November 10, 2016
(RNS) The conservative prelate said Trump understood the values of fundamental importance to Catholics and would do anything possible to halt abortion.
Kerry to visit Mideast in bid to calm Palestinian-Israeli tensions
By Reuters — October 14, 2015
BOSTON (Reuters) The trip would mark U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's most direct efforts to broker peace between the two sides since talks led by the United States failed last year.
Pope Francis taps diplomat Pietro Parolin as Vatican’s new ‘prime minister’
By Alessandro Speciale — August 31, 2013
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis' new Secretary of State will replace Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, a trusted aide of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI who had been blamed for the mismanagement and scandals that plagued the Vatican in recent years.
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