Dicastery for Communication Archives

Vatican’s “Ironic Employment Division” strikes again

News Analysis
Aug 31, 2019

Perhaps Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò’s first PR project at the Pontifical Academies for Science and for Social Sciences could be to explain what in the world he’s doing there in the first place.

Pope names deputy spokeswoman as women make Vatican gains

Associated Press, Vatican
Jul 25, 2019

Pope Francis named a Brazilian journalist, Christiane Murray, as his deputy spokeswoman Thursday, in the latest important appointment boosting the presence and prestige of women at the Vatican.

On social media, Catholic tribalization and the call to friendship

News Analysis
Jun 9, 2019

Recently I spoke in Rome on social media and Catholic debate, but full disclosure: Asking me to talk about social media is a bit like asking a Red Sox fan to discuss the Yankees.

Vatican omitted part of pope’s crucial quote about McCarrick

Associated Press, Vatican
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.

Founder, editorial board of Vatican women’s magazine quit

Associated Press, Vatican
Mar 26, 2019

The founder and all-female editorial board of the Vatican’s women’s magazine have quit after what they say was a Vatican campaign to discredit them and put them “under the direct control of men,” that only increased after they denounced the sexual abuse of nuns by clergy.

‘Scourge of abuse, internal attacks’ mark pope’s sixth year in office

Catholic News Service, Vatican
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.