On Jan. 20, the U.S. Senate, by voice vote, confirmed Joseph Donnelley of Indiana to be U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican. AP reports:
Donnelly is a Democrat who served six years in the U.S. House from a South Bend-area district before winning election to the Senate in 2012. He lost his 2018 reelection bid to Republican Mike Braun.
Donnelly has bachelor’s and law degrees from the University of Notre Dame, where he has been a part-time professor while also working for the Washington law firm Akin Gump.
Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins called Donnelly “a person of deep Catholic faith and commitment to public service.”
[Thanks to Scott Mange for the lead.]