QUESTIONS:
1. What President opened formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican?
2. Who was the first U.S. ambassador to the Vatican?
3. President Bush's ambassador to the Vatican, Jim Nicholson, recently resigned to join the Cabinet. What Cabinet position does Nicholson now hold?
4. Who was the first Pope to meet the President of the U.S. on American soil?
5. Who was the first President to meet the Pope in the Vatican?
ANSWERS:
1. Ronald Reagan in 1984.
2. William A. Wilson, who was ambassador from 1984-86.
3. Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
4. Pope Pius XII, who, as Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, secretary of state of the Vatican, traveled to the U.S. in 1938 and met President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House.
5. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who met Pope John XXIII at the Vatican in 1959.
