Benedictines are excited by the good news that Miguel Diaz PhD, professor of theology at the Benedictine School of Theology, and the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Minnesota, has been nominated by President Barack Obama on 26 May 2009, to become the United States Ambassador to the Holy See. Dr. Diaz’s appointment still awaits U.S. Senate confirmation. “Professor Miguel Diaz is a skilled Trinitarian theologian who is passionate both as a teacher and a scholar,” said Rt. Rev. John Klassen OSB, Abbot of Saint John’s Abbey and Chancellor of Saint John’s University. “He is a strong proponent of the necessity of the Church to become deeply and broadly multi-cultural, to recognize and appreciate the role that culture plays in a living faith. Born in Havana, Cuba, he is a leading Hispanic theologian in United States.”
From: http://www.osb.org/new/current.html
Way 2 go, Mr. Prez!