Bishop Paul Tighe

Listen, respond to modern world, Vatican panel tells Catholic media
- Jul 6, 2020
When Vatican communication leaders met virtually with U.S. and Canadian Catholic journalists and communication leaders June 30, they urged the group to keep up their work, think of new ways to have a broader reach and not get weighed down by society’s current polarization.

By Carol Zimmermann
Shadows over Vatican family summit don’t dim enthusiasm at opening ceremony
- Aug 22, 2018
Although the clerical sexual abuse crisis and controversies over ‘Amoris Laetitia’ cast shadows over the World Meeting of Families, that didn’t stop people from being excited at Tuesday’s opening event.

By Crux Staff
Hollywood meets Holy See: Making movies at the Vatican
- May 17, 2018
When it comes to filmmaking inside the square or on Vatican property, only the Secretariat for Communication decides who gets the green light. They prefer documentaries.

By Robert Duncan

‘Lettergate’ debacle unnecessary, but useful in surfacing tensions
- Mar 22, 2018
If you’re sitting on a letter from a pope, even an emeritus one, you’ve really only got two choices about what to do with it. Either you publish the entire thing, or you keep it to yourself.

By John L. Allen Jr.
Pope boosts the stock of quite possibly the Vatican’s nicest guy
- Oct 29, 2017
Pope Francis on Saturday named Irish Bishop Paul Tighe the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture, essentially cementing his status as the top aide to Italian Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi. For the better part of a decade Tighe has been an effective emissary for the headquarters of the Catholic Church, among other reasons because he’s widely regarded as perhaps the Vatican’s nicest guy.

By John L. Allen Jr.