Andrea Tornielli

Vatican omitted part of pope’s crucial quote about McCarrick
- May 29, 2019
The Vatican communications office on Wednesday corrected the Italian transcript of Pope Francis’s comments about disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Earlier, it had omitted Francis’s claim that he didn’t remember if he had been told in 2013 of McCarrick’s penchant for sleeping with seminarians.

By Nicole Winfield
Official marks retired pope’s birthday, commenting on his latest letter
- Apr 15, 2019
Marking retired Pope Benedict XVI’s 92nd birthday, the editorial director of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication insisted what the retired pope wrote about facing the clerical sexual abuse crisis is essentially what Pope Francis has said, too.

By Cindy Wooden
‘Scourge of abuse, internal attacks’ mark pope’s sixth year in office
- Mar 12, 2019
Catholics cannot place blame for the sexual abuse crisis on “those who came before us” in an attempt “to present ourselves as ‘pure,'” said the editorial director of the Vatican media outlets.

By Cindy Wooden

Vatican’s ‘Super Bowl week’ on abuse scandals will be judged by results
- Feb 19, 2019
An anti-abuse summit convened by Pope Francis is being given Super Bowl treatment by the Vatican, but its success will be judged by its results.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Pastoral take on abuse features sin and forgiveness, Vatican comms czar says
- Feb 15, 2019
Andrea Tornielli, the Vatican’s new editorial director, says the pope’s summit on clerical sexual abuse is not a meeting of experts or technicians, but of pastors.

By Elise Harris
Real Catholic media don’t look for heretics everywhere, official says
- Jan 28, 2019
The rise of media that call themselves Catholic but seem to exist only to judge others is less about criticizing Pope Francis and more about the misguided notion that to affirm one’s own orthodoxy, one must find someone to label a heretic, said a Vatican communications official.

By Cindy Wooden
Vatican abuse summit will underline need to end cover-ups, official says
- Jan 12, 2019
The aim of Pope Francis’s February meeting on abuse and safeguarding is to clarify and underline what must and must not be done with allegations and make sure no more cases are ever covered up, said Andrea Tornielli, editorial director for the Vatican Dicastery for Communication.

By Carol Glatz
New Vatican editor calls media hype over February summit ‘excessive’
- Jan 10, 2019
In an editorial piece under his new position as the man in charge of setting the tone for Vatican communications, veteran journalist Andrea Tornielli has called media coverage ahead of a February abuse summit “excessive,” saying the main point of the meeting is getting lost amid the fuss.

By Elise Harris