One day this week, the Sovereign Pontiff named a new...

Nuncio to Slovenia, appointing him also Apostolic Delegate in Kosovo; this occasioned an explanatory note in the Bollettino (and notice here and elsewhere) clarifying the difference between the mission of a nuncio and that of an apostolic delegate. As an American of a certain age, the distinction didn't raise my eyebrows in the slightest: we, after all, had apostolic delegates for almost a century until the late Pio Cardinal Laghi was made nuncio in the mid-'80s.