People gather with US flags at St Peter’s square with the St Peter’s Basilica in the background at the Vatican, on May 11, 2025. Jeff Pachoud/AFP via Getty Images
The Senate confirmed CatholicVote President Brian Burch as the latest U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See on Aug. 2.
With a vote of 49–44, Burch will head to Vatican City to serve during the first ever reign of an American Pope, Pope Leo XIV. Both men claim Chicago as their hometown, and Burch was also the president of Seton Academy Catholic Montessori School in Villa Park, Illinois, which is just outside of Chicago.
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