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| | Inside the Vatican - Monthly Catholic Magazine |
 | | VATICAN CITY, Friday, April 15, 2005 -- The new US ambassador to the Holy See is Oklahoma businessman Francis Rooney, Inside the Vatican has learned. |
 | | Rooney was a member of the Leadership Task Force, a Tulsa City and County planning group headed jointly by the Mayor and the Chairman of the County Commission, which developed the Vision 2025 $900 million package of capital improvement and job creation projects approved by the public in September 2003. |
 | | Rooney was a founding member of the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Panama Canal Authority, Republic of Panama, and a Director of the Newport Shipyard, Newport, Rhode Island. |
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