from RNS (Religious News Service) -- story bylined from Vatican City:
The U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Miguel H. Diaz, paid his farewell visit to Pope Benedict XVI Catholic theologian Miguel Diaz served as the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
An embassy spokesman said Diaz had ended his term after three years as Washington's top diplomat to the Vatican. He had been sworn in on Aug. 21, 2009.
Back in the U.S., he will take up a teaching position at the University of Dayton in Ohio, a Catholic college, though an official announcement has not been made yet.
Diaz was a theologian at the College of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, Minn., and Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minn., before being chosen to represent the Obama administration at the Vatican.
Born in Havana, Cuba, he was the first Hispanic U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. He is also a board member of the Catholic Theological Society of America and former president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States.
Despite the conflict between U.S. Catholic bishops and the Obama administration over a new mandate for employers to provide birth control coverage to their employees, Diaz steered clear of controversies during his tenure, focusing instead on themes such as interfaith dialogue and the fight against human trafficking.
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