New US ambassador to Vatican arrives in Rome: agency

The new US ambassador to the Holy See, anti-abortion Harvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon, arrived in Rome on Friday to take up her post, a mission spokeswoman said.

The United States and the Holy See have a "common vision rooted in respect for the dignity of each man, woman and child," Glendon said on her arrival, the mission's media advisor Amy Elizabeth Roth told AFP.