Great News!!-Senate confirms Mary Ann Glendon as U.S. ambassador to Vatican

Very exciting. What a great quality choice especially for this very important year. This is a news story on the confirmation. This nomination appeared to be in a slight bit of trouble earlier in the week.

Earlier this month Robert Novak reported that
President Bush's nomination of Harvard Law School professor Mary Ann Glendon as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican is being held up in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, raising the possibility that the post may be vacant when Pope Benedict XVI visits the United States in April.
The selection of anti-abortion advocate Glendon is opposed by Catholics for a Free Choice. No official holds on her confirmation have been filed, but failure to schedule a hearing blocks her confirmation. She is caught up in blanket Democratic opposition to Bush's final nominees.
Business tycoon Francis Rooney, current ambassador to the Holy See, has resigned and is expected to be gone by the time of the pope's American visit.

On a 2008 political note I would point out that she was a advisor to Governor Romney on several issues which is interesting.

This article gives more info. Note there were concerns about the nomination just days ago.

I think she is a wonderful choice and will represent the interest of the United States well at the Vatican.