[BlackElk]

Renato Cardinal Martino certainly did serve at the UN (couldn't you tell by his "intellectual" Euroweenieism and knee-jerk anti-Americanism?) but, of course, the United States is not, thank God, subject to the United Nations or an equivalent of that zoological debating society from hell. Onetime Texas US Senator Tom Connolly may also be thanked for the Connolly Reservation to the UN Treaty which protected US sovereignty from the UN's wildest schemes, at least so far. Martino NEVER served as nuncio to the United States. The pope has far more respect for the United States (at least when the Arkansas Antichrist or Mrs. Antichrist is not president) than to send this schlep to our country as nuncio.

[HiTech RedNeck]

but, of course, the United States is not, thank God, subject to the United Nations or an equivalent of that zoological debating society from hell

I daresay Rome esteems the UN more highly than being a ZDSFH.