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Vatican communication head says media must promote culture of respect

Feb 5, 2020

Communication is meant to be constructive, to connect people and promote understanding, but too often the media have degenerated into platforms to disseminate hatred, said Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication.

By Ryan Harms

Vatican’s “Ironic Employment Division” strikes again

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.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Pope names deputy spokeswoman as women make Vatican gains

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.

By Nicole Winfield

On social media, Catholic tribalization and the call to friendship

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.

By John L. Allen Jr.

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

Founder, editorial board of Vatican women’s magazine quit

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.

By Nicole Winfield

‘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

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