QUESTIONS:
1. John Paul, II has just celebrated his 25th anniversary as pope and has been a regular visitor to the White House. Who was the first future pope to visit the United States and meet a President?
2. Who was the first American President to have met the Pope in the Vatican?
3. Who was the first First Lady to have an audience with the Pope?
4. Who is the current U.S. ambassador to the Vatican?
5. What U.S. President signed legislation opening diplomatic relations and permitting the first ambassador to the Vatican?
ANSWERS:
1. Pope Pius XII who, as Vatican secretary of state Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, in 1938, toured the U.S. and met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
2. Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959
3. Jacqueline Kennedy in 1962.
4. James Nicholson, former Republican National Chairman
5. Ronald Reagan in 1984
