Pope Benedict XVI has named Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, 70, as the new nuncio to the United States. He succeeds the late Archbishop Pietro Sambi at the apostolic nunciature in Washington.

DENVER — On its face, the arc of Archbishop Carlo Viganò’s story is straightforward. In a testimony released Aug. 25, Archbishop Viganò wrote that in 2006, he sent a memo to his Vatican superiors, ...

The announcement that Archbishop Christoph Pierre will succeed Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò as apostolic nuncio to the United States is an opportunity to pay tribute to a courageous Churchman who has ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s former nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, said on Thursday that he has been summoned by the Vatican to face charges of schism. The archbishop ...

Pope Benedict XVI’s choice as his new ambassador to the United States will find a badly polarized society in America, with contentious national elections in 2012 already heating up and no sign that ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI today, Oct. 19, named Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò his new ambassador to the United States. A veteran Holy See diplomat with almost four decades of experience, he ...

BALTIMORE — During a brief, but pointed address before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, gathered for their annual fall meeting Nov. 11-13, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the apostolic nuncio ...

Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, then apostolic nuncio to the United States, is seen at the Vatican in a Oct. 20, 2011, file photo. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen ROME – A Vatican decree ...

Back in 2018, I got into such a bust-up with a fellow Catholic journalist on Twitter that I had to delete my account and take her to lunch by way of apology. We were arguing about the newly-published ...

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, then nuncio to the United States, congratulates then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington at a gala dinner sponsored by the Pontifical Missions Societies in New ...