After months of anticipa-tion, the White House announ-ced on October 8 afternoon that President Joe Biden will nominate former U.S. Senator Joseph Donnelly as the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.
Like President Joe Biden, Donnelly is a devout Irish Catholic.
Donnelly, a Democrat, was senator from Indiana from 2013-2019 and was a member of the U.S. House of Repre-sentatives from 2007 to 2013, representing Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District.
“I am truly honoured to be nominated to this role by President Biden, a man of faith and a friend,” Donnelly said in a statement to Insider. “If confirmed, I look forward to working with the Holy See on a wide variety of issues, in-cluding human rights, religious freedom, immigration, climate change, peace, and poverty.”
Donnelly, a pro-life Democrat, didn’t mention issues of life, mainly abortion. Biden, the second Catholic president in U.S. history has been under fire from many Catholics since the election for his pro-abortion stance. This includes from a portion of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that have advocated he, and other pro-abortion politicians including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi be barred from receiving communion.
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