Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò Archives

New Vatican streaming service aims to be ‘Catholic Netflix’

Jun 5, 2020

The Vatican is collaborating in the launch of VatiVision, a new on-demand streaming service aimed at promoting Christian values through film.

By Elise Ann Allen

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 taps first lay person as head of a Vatican department

Jul 5, 2018

Pope Francis has named a layman to head the Vatican’s troubled communications office, the first layman to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia.

By Inés San Martín

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

Pope gets an unprecedented close-up, courtesy of Wim Wenders

May 15, 2018

When Wim Wenders first met Pope Francis before shooting the documentary “Pope Francis: A Man of his Word,” the pontiff warmly greeted the German filmmaker before warning Wenders that he is no movie buff.

By Jake Coyle

‘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.

How a Catholic reacts to the ‘Superpope’ shirt probably says a lot

Oct 25, 2017

In January 2014, a Roman street artist put up an image of Pope Francis as a superhero on a street near the Vatican. City authorities scrubbed it off within 48 hours, but now it’s back in the form of a line of T-shirts, with proceeds going to papal charities and explicit Vatican support. Some Catholics may see that as exciting, others as a worrying risk of pursuing profit and celebrity under the guise of good intentions.

By John L. Allen Jr.

New Vatican communications portal due by end of year

Aug 15, 2017

Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, Prefect of the Secretariat for Communication, says a new web portal bringing together all the different media offices of the Vatican will be focused on “communicating the pope, his magisterium, his gestures, [and] the work of the Roman dicasteries to the Church around the world.”

By Crux Staff