Vatican correspondent Elise Ann Allen has conducted a two-part interview with the United States Ambassador to the Holy See, Brian Burch, covering his arrival in Rome, the election of the first Pope from the United States and a series of pressing international and domestic policy questions shaping relations between Washington and the Vatican.

Burch, who presented his credentials in September, relocated to Rome with his wife, Sarah, and several of their children, leaving behind their parish and Catholic community in the United States to take up the diplomatic post.